Richard M. Daley Quotes

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

I wanted to get away from my past and everything connected with it.

I don't live that life anymore, it's as simple as that.

When I left, after my divorce, when I left Oklahoma, I never looked back. It was the future. It was looking forward from then on.

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

When one thing ends, you put it away and start from scratch on the next thing.

There is always a time to move on.

Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?

The 25-year-old me would tell the 32-year-old me to take the two rings and go start the next chapter in life, but it's never simple when you still have gas left in the tank.

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

When I shaved my hair, my friends asked me to keep it, maybe make my own wig out of it, but I wanted the old hair to go; it was not mine. I wanted to let go.

One cannot begin a new dream without abandoning the last [one].

Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

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.

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

Sometimes you want a Part Two in your life.

I can't live off of yesterday - that's in the past.

You can't live on last year, you can't live on the year before. I can't bring in my 13 Pro Bowls in the locker room and say, look at me. No. That is gone. That is the best thing about the game of football is that everybody starts over.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.

Time to open up a new chapter in life, and to explore a larger centre.

I'm going to move on and do other things. My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.

I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.

The past is but the past of a beginning.

You have to decide when it is time to move on.