Forget The Past Quotes

• Never forget the three powerful resources you always have available to you: love, prayer, and forgiveness.

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

  Love, Inspirational, Forgiveness

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr. (2000). “Life's Instructions for Wisdom, Success, and Happiness”, p.52, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

  Joseph Simmons

  Past, Rapper, African American

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• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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  I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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• When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

  Dian Fossey

  Inspirational, Life, Witty

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• Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we're mad at people, we're angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

  Marianne Williamson

  Forgiveness, Letting Go, Past

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  Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.25, American Foundation for the Blind

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• Study the past, if you would divine the future.

  Confucius

  Change, Time, Philosophical

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• Don't stumble over something behind you.

  Seneca the Younger

  Motivational, Wisdom, Inspiration

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• Every life has a purpose. We need to let go of the past. Live in the present. Do not waste today worrying about what will happen tomorrow. Embrace your true spirit, embrace and listen to grace and you be transformed in the moment. Do not fixate on what you want but give thanks for what you have.

  Caroline Myss

  Life, Thankful, Letting Go

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• The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo; the more he can remember, the more divine his life becomes.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Life Lesson, Men, Numbers

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  You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

  Johnny Cash

  Life, Bullying, Mistake

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Learning, Stubborn

  Henry David Thoreau (1999). “Uncommon Learning: Thoreau on Education”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

  Annie Lennox

  Life, Appreciation, Future

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• The remedy for wrongs is to forget them.

  Publilius Syrus

  Past, Forget, Remedy

  "Maxims". No. 383,

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• The secret to so many artists living so long is that every painting is a new adventure. So, you see, they're always looking ahead to something new and exciting. The secret is not to look back.

  Norman Rockwell

  Life, Moving On, Travel

  "A Rockwell Portrait : An Intimate Biography". Book by Donald Walton (p. 251), 1978.

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• To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Philosophical, Stupidity, Purpose

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• Forget the past and live the present hour.

  Sarah Knowles Bolton

  Inspirational, Memorable, Past

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• It is lovely, when I forget all birthdays, including my own, to find that somebody remembers me.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Birthday, Lovely, Funny Birthday

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1958). “Letters of Ellen Glasgow”

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• It is extraordinary that when you are acquainted with a whole family you can forget about them.

  Gertrude Stein

  Family, Acquaintance, Extraordinary

  Gertrude Stein, Ulla E. Dydo (1993). “A Stein Reader”, p.590, Northwestern University Press

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• We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Inspiring, Adversity, Affliction

  Dwight L Moody (1958). “Talks to Christians”, p.81, Moody Publishers

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• Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself.

  Neville Goddard

  Inspiring, Regret, Mistake

  Neville Goddard “Neville's Spiritual Classics”, Lulu.com

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• Unfortunately, what many people forget is that judges are just lawyers in robes.

  Tammy Bruce

  Judging, People, Lawyer

  Tammy Bruce (2004). “The Death of Right and Wrong: Exposing the Left's Assault on Our Culture and Values”, p.273, Crown Forum

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