Percy Bysshe Shelley Quotes

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

I like what the future holds. I don't like thinking about the past.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

Life's easier and nicer when you let go of the past and look to the future.

I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.

However confused the scene of our life appears, however torn we may be who now do face that scene, it can be faced, and we can go on to be whole.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future.

Let us not be bitter about the past, but let us keep our eyes firmly on the future.

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.

Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I'm a person who really doesn't dwell on the past.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.

Give yourself a chance to see how much better life will get. And it will get better.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear and superstition.

I guess I'm living in the present more than the past.

I'm sure when the times comes, there will be tears, but there are other avenues that I am embracing with much more passion these days.

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows.