Ella Baker Quotes

You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been.

Looking at the past must only be a means of understanding more clearly what and who they are so that they can more wisely build the future.

I thought I was going nowhere. Now I can see there was a pattern.

It's one thing to really dream and have a vision and want all these cool things, but it's a whole other thing when you actually have wisdom and understand things. Then you can truly make the best decisions.

It's like climbing a staircase. I'm on the top of the staircase, I look behind me and I see the steps. That's where I was.

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been.

Our goal is to move forward, but we know that to avoid falling backward, we must be willing to look backward and to come to terms with what happened in the past.

I have learnt a lot from my past experience.

Life can only be understood backwards.

An answer is always on the stretch of road that is behind you. Only a question can point the way forward.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

The past is important for all the information and wisdom it holds. But you can get lost in it. You've got to learn to keep the knowledge of the past with you as you pursue the present.

Vision is knowing who you are, where you're going, and what will guide your journey.

You can't move forward until you look back.

Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action.

Every year, I appreciate life more because of the deeper understanding of what it took to get this far.

Whether it's 18 years old or 40 years old, we think we know what's going on. But if you're lucky enough to continue the journey, its amazing how we keep learning how much we didn't know.

Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

I'm interested in where we are, where we're going, where we've come from.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

Learn from your dreams what you lack.

Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

What is the good of experience if you do not reflect?