Greg Mortenson Quotes

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.

I look back on my life like everybody does but not just career. I mean I look back on my life as a whole, so I don't think that I dwell there or anything and in terms of work I hope that there is a lot in front of me.

I think there's a lesson in everything.

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

Through salvation our past has been forgiven, our present is given meaning, and out future is secured.

Treat the past as a school.

The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.

Want to assure people there is no need for pessimism going by the past bad experience; country has huge potential.

This is what the past is for! Every experience God gives us, every person He puts in our lives is the perfect preparation for the future that only He can see.

I believe that you go through your past and you learn what you learn for whatever reason. I'm just glad I'm not making fifteen-year-old mistakes at twenty-six - I got that out of the way.

My grandmother always used to say, "If you know your past and you know where you have to go, why do you rehearse?" I always remember this and it's true. You have to start each day again-you can't repeat what you did.

The way you remember the past depends upon your hope for the future.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

My future will be better than my past.

The future always looks good in the golden land, because no one remembers the past ... Here is the last stop for all those who come from somewhere else, for all those who drifted away from the cold and the past and the old ways.

Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

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

A certain kind of poetry looks back at experience from an older perspective.

Keep your life in a positive perspective. We are not defined by our pasts