William Wordsworth Quotes

Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.

It is not well to go into things long past, unless to learn something for our present guidance.

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.

I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.

I love stories, and as I got older, I realized how important what happened yesterday is to how you try to make your present better.

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.

I spend a lot of time in the future, But to help the future, sometimes you got to go back to the past, and sometimes you got to stay in the present.

I stopped thinking about it after trying to figure out what are the lessons learned, and there are so many. After I had basically sorted that out, I figured it's time to really look at the future and not at the past.

Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous.

My future is in my past and my past is my present. I must now make the present my future.

You can't undo the past... but you can certainly not repeat it.

If one does not forget one's previous experience, one can learn for the future from the past.

We cannot undo the past but we can learn from it, and we cannot predict the future but we can shape and build it.

The past becomes the armor with which we face the future.

You cannot alter the past. You can only learn from it, and … history is the best teacher.

If you find great difficulty in trying to reckon with the future or even the present, I think it's intuitive to start that process by reckoning with the past.

I am a big believer that whatever has gone lies in the past. You should only learn from it, and you should only look at the present and the future. That's been my father's philosophy and mine as well.

It is only by reflecting on the past that one can create a better future.

I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.

It was never too late to learn something. The past is unalterable in any event. The future is the only thing we can change. Learning the lessons of the past is the only way to shape the present and the future.

Treat the past as a school.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

If you were to take the lessons and experiences you've acquired in the past one year, five years or 10 years and skillfully invest that into your future, how powerful would that be? Where would you find yourself at the end of the next year?

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

Learn from the past, prepare for the future, live in the present.