Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. LewisMy public is growing up just as I am. After all, I’m not 19 anymore and if I stick with the sex bit, who will be paying to see me when I’m 50?
Marilyn MonroeA lack of realism in the vision today costs credibility tomorrow.
John C. MaxwellI don’t like looking back. I’m always constantly looking forward. I’m not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilt milk. I’m too busy looking for the next cow.
Gordon RamsayI owe everything to Nirvana. But I can’t let that overshadow the future. For the first few years, I didn’t even want to talk about Nirvana. Partly because it was just painful to talk about losing Kurt but also because I wanted the Foo Fighters to mean something.
Dave GrohlWhen you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that’s Memoirs.
Will RogersTake time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.
Jim RohnYou can’t go backward in life.
Jordan PetersonThe scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter – for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way.
Nikola TeslaMy attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again.
Richard BransonIn this bright future you can’t forget your past.
Bob MarleyI don’t suffer of anything that I’ve lost.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerWe will burn that bridge when we come to it.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheIf you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.
Joyce MeyerThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan WattsI tend not to look back and dwell on a project once it is finished.
Angelina JolieI don’t regret anything.
Amy WinehouseThings won’t get better dwelling on the past. Accept what has happened. Then move forward.
Jocko WillinkNo sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Isaac AsimovThe future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.
Barack ObamaA politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.
Winston ChurchillWe can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.
Greta ThunbergNo work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan WattsNo valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.
Alan WattsWhat’ll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
F. Scott FitzgeraldLegacy is a stupid thing! I don’t want a legacy.
Bill GatesIn the long run, your human capital is your main base of competition. Your leading indicator of where you’re going to be 20 years from now is how well you’re doing in your education system.
Bill GatesWe cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.
Henry KissingerFrom a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.
Franz KafkaWe have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we’re so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it’s not going to be around forever.
Margaret AtwoodAn egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
Benjamin FranklinIt’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.
Angelina JolieWhen I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.
Taylor SwiftBe nice to your children. After all, they are going to choose your nursing home.
Steven WrightI don’t live in the past at all; I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.
Brian EnoNever look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David ThoreauWhen I’m in management meetings when we’re deciding my future, those decisions are left up to me. I’m the one who has to go out and fulfill all these obligations, so I should be able to choose which ones I do or not. That’s the part of my life where I feel most in control.
Taylor SwiftI will never retire unless I have to.
Dolly PartonI will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it.
George H. W. BushYou’ll never get ahead of anyone as long as you try to get even with him.
Lou HoltzMy justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. The time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.
Amy WinehouseI was a thug.
Frank OceanI don’t look at my old work. I mean, they made nice books; the books were made without me, the one from last year and the one from this year. I – personally, I’m not interested in my own past. I’m only interested in today – perhaps tomorrow.
Karl LagerfeldHave you ever asked yourselves what you are going to do when you grow up? In all likelihood you will get married, and before you know where you are, you will be mothers and fathers; and you will then be tied to a job, or to the kitchen, in which you will gradually wither away. Is that all that your life is going to be?
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI’ve noticed a terrible thing, which is I will agree to anything if it’s far enough in the future.
Brian EnoDiscontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.
Eckhart TolleEven if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.
Martin LutherYou simply have to put one foot in front of the other and keep going. Put blinders on and plow right ahead.
George LucasIt’s when children are 15, 16 or 17 that they decide whether they want to be a doctor, an engineer, a politician or go to the Mars or moon. That is the time they start having a dream, and that’s the time you can work on them. You can help them shape their dreams.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamWhen you make a mistake and the devil comes and tells you ‚You’re no good,‘ you don’t have to take on the guilt and condemnation he wants to put on you. No! You can immediately confess your mistake to God, thank Him for forgiving you and cleansing you with the blood of Jesus, and move forward in the victory of His grace and forgiveness.
Joyce MeyerWhat’s amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It’s so far away in time that they can’t appreciate what it means for their whole life.
Bill GatesYesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. JohnsonA great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI’ve taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them.
Clint EastwoodIt’s a question of whether we’re going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
Dan QuayleI can’t deal with someone wanting to take a relationship backward or needing space or cheating on you. It’s a conscious thing; it’s a common-sense thing.
Taylor SwiftWhat we have to find is the right level of regulation of our financial system so that it has the incentive to invest in things, but at the same time, it is sufficiently regulated so it can’t get in the kind of trouble that we have seen in the past and we have seen recently.
Colin PowellI’m reflective only in the sense that I learn to move forward. I reflect with a purpose.
Kobe BryantInvest three percent of your income in yourself (self-development) in order to guarantee your future.
Brian TracyThe investor of today does not profit from yesterday’s growth.
Warren Buffett