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Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.
Sep 10, 2025
One should learn from the past, but one should not live in the past. My concern is to look to the future, learn from the past, and deal with the present.
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
Learn from the past and share your experiences with others.
We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.
Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.
The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one’s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes.
Examine the present and learn from the past to see how the future will unfold. Too often we just look at the present and base our actions solely on that.
The softer your heart is the less that your past is forming your present and your future. When there is openness and softness of heart, what forms the present and the future is not your past but the reality of your own being.
We can learn from past failures and mistakes, but we shouldn't get stuck there. We can keep future goals in mind, but we shouldn't get stuck there, either. The only way to reach our potential is to focus on what we must do now - this moment, this day - to perform effectively and win.
Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.
A person who doesn't learn from the past is an idiot, in my estimation.
Never erase your past. It shapes who you are today and will help you to be the person you'll be tomorrow.
The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing.
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone.
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Learn from it... tomorrow is a new day.
I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future,and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
J. Edgar Hoover: When morals decline and good men do nothing, evil flourishes. A society unwilling to learn from past is doomed. We must never forget our history.
It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.
It is not often that nations learn from the past even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. For the lessons of historical experience, as of personal experience, are contingent. They teach the consequences of certain actions, but they cannot force a recognition of comparable situations.
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it.
The place where I think social media fails is in showing the knowledge, the tradition of stitching the clothing, of cutting the fabric, of the tannery, of the skinning of the jewels - this knowledge needs respect. Online and social media is the future, but we need to learn from the past, too.
First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out.
I think, there is a possibility - I would say it's more than that - that we will come to a view of foreign policy going forward that learns from the past but doesn't get captured by it.
It seems to me that the dedication of a library is an act of faith. To bring together the resources of the past and to house them in buildings where they will be preserved for the use of men and women in the future, a nation must believe in three things. It must believe in the past. it must believe in the future. It must, above all, believe in the capacity of its own people so to learn from the past that they can gain in judgment in creating their own future.
It is not "forgive and forget" as if nothing wrong had ever happened, but "forgive and go forward," building on the mistakes of the past and the energy generated by reconciliation to create a new future.
What we learn from history is that people don't learn from history.
We cannot change what happened anymore. The only thing we can do is to learn from the past and to realize what discrimination and persecution of innocent people means. I believe that it's everyone's responsibility to fight prejudice.
Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.
Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day.
Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.
Now, once again, we find ourselves facing rising gas prices, and the question is: This time, are we going to learn from the past? Are we finally going to get serious about energy conservation? Of course not! We have the brains of mealworms! So we need to get more oil somehow. As far as I can figure, there's only one practical way to do this. That's right: We need to clone more dinosaurs. We have the technology, as was shown in two blockbuster scientific movies, Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park Returns with Exactly the Same Plot. Once we have the dinosaurs, all we need is an asteroid.
I'm the last person to ask 'what do you remember' from a particular time period... I like to learn from the past... not 'live' in it.
Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.
Life is about trusting your feelings and taking chances, losing and finding happiness, appreciating the memories, learning from the past, and realizing people change.
The past can hurt. But the way I see it, you can either run from it, or learn from it.
Today’s events are tomorrow’s history, yet events seen by the naked eye lack the depth and breadth of human struggles, triumphs and suffering. Writing history is writing the soul of the past… so that the present generation may learn from past mistakes, be inspired by their ancestor’s sacrifices, and take responsibility for the future.
Learn from yesterday, live for today.
As Indians, we must of course learn from the past; but we must remain focused on the future. In my view, education is the true alchemy that can bring India its next golden age.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure.
Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.
My goal is to tell good stories. And to try as best I can to do something new with acting. To learn from the past and to be a relevant artist. To make stories that are interesting and contemporary and to tell some kind of emotional truth.
Research has shown over and over again that the more you acknowledge your past successes, the more confident you become in taking on and successfully accomplishing new ones.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
Be the change you want to see.
Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past. . . is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.
With hindsight, we recognize that the social and moral confusion of the late 1960s and early 1970s is part of a cultural cycle; we're in a similar time of upheaval now in the sense that the nation is divided upon itself, and some of the present schisms appear both terrifying and permanent. It's true that unless we learn from the past, we're condemned to repeat it.