Max Lucado Quotes

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I can't really regret things; you just have to move on and live your life.

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

I try to not go over things from the past. Learn your lessons and then let it go.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward.

Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.

Life is too short to live that way. Learn to travel light. Every morning when you first get up, forgive the people that did you wrong the day before. Forgive your spouse for what they said. At the start of the day, let go of the disappointments, the set backs from yesterday. Start every morning fresh and new. God did not create you to carry around all that baggage. Let it go and move forward in the life of blessing He has in store for you!

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, then forget it. Now.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

You've got to let it go and say it was the best I could do at that time and place in my life. You hope that the thing you're doing next is a little bit better.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

My biggest regret is rolling in regret. It is best to pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on.

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

I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.