Quotes About Reflection

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

You may forget but let me tell you this: someone in some future time will think of us

The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Losing the future is the best thing that ever happened to me.

Don't hurry anything. Don't worry about the future. Don't worry about what progress you're making. Just be entirely content to be aware of what is.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

Those who fail to learn from the brutal stompings visited on them in the past are doomed to be brutally stomped in the future.

We're all just memories of our future selves.

If you want to know the past, look at your present. If you want to know the future, look at your present.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

We are threatened by the now so we jump to the past or the future.

All a company report and balance sheet can tell you is the past and the present. They cannot tell future.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Why ponder thus the future to foresee, and jade thy brain to vain perplexity? Cast off thy care, leave Allah's plans to him – He formed them all without consulting thee.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.