Charles Caleb Colton Quotes

To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.

It is not possible to go forward while looking back.

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do.

The past isn't going to get you to your goal.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future.

We have to go into the past to go further and further into the future.

I did a lot of great things in the past, but I live for today and for the future.

It's great to have a great past and history. But it's even greater to have a good future. So the most important history is the history we make today.

When You Hold Onto Your History, You Do It At The Expense Of Your Destiny.

Don't look back, because that's the sign of failure.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

Nothing is ever behind us.

The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity.

It's not enough what I did in the past - there is also the future.

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

That's why we have memory. And the opposite of memory— hope. So things that are gone can still matter. So we can built off our pasts and make future.

We must choose. Be a child of the past with all its crudities and imperfections, its failures and defeats, or a child of the future, the future of symmetry and ultimate success.

The cradle of the future is the grave of the past.

History, in illuminating the past, illuminates the present, and in illuminating the present, illuminates the future.

Remember, the past need not become our future as well.

The only time you should look back in life, is to see how far you have come.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

My future will be better than my past.