Quotes About Reflection

It's OK to quote from your past. But I'm more interested in quoting from my present and pointing towards the future.

If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost.

As I reflect on the results of election I will reflect on what we need to do in the future to take the party forward.

I will live in the past, the present, and the future. The spirits of all three shall strive within me.

We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.

Heal the past, live the present, dream the future.

May today be filled With bright hopes for the future And happy memories of the past

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

It often feels like I'm not so much living for the present as I am busy making memories for the future.

In order to plan your future wisely, it is necessary that you understand and appreciate your past.

To abandon the present in order to look for things in the future is to throw away the substance and hold onto the shadow.

Future generations may well have occasion to ask themselves, "What were our parents thinking? Why didn't they wake up when they had a chance?" We have to hear that question from them, now.

It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

We read the future by the past.

Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

This is the solstice, the still point of the sun, its cusp and midnight, the year's threshold and unlocking, where the past lets go of and becomes the future; the place of caught breath.

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%

It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*

We often get so busy "sawing" (producing results) that we forget to "sharpen our saw" (maintain or increase our capacity to produce results in the future).

I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind.

Se Souvenir du passe, et qu'il ya un avenir: Remember the past, and that there is a future.

Whatever your circumstances, whatever your past, the forces that determine your future are nowhere but within your own heart and mind. It is here that the star of your destiny shines.

Can one make the future a substitute for the present? And what guarantee have we that the future will be any better if we neglect the present?