Sting Quotes

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

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

We cannot erase the past, but we can accept it as history.

Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind.

I think it's a very healthy thing to learn from what's happened in the past. But only if you look at what happened and think, 'How could I have dealt with that differently?' Then let it go.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Everyone has a past, and the downside to my life is that the past gets dragged up.

Learning from the past helps to ensure that mistakes are not repeated.

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

Dwell on the past and you will lose an eye. Forget the past and you will lose both eyes.

The past is the past and besides it's passed

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

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

Unfortunately, my departure from Madrid was not pleasant, but those things are in the past, and I have learned a lot and matured.

It's the same with success and failure. There's always the momentum thing, but you just have to put whatever happened in the past behind you.

Your present is shaped by your yesterday, but you don't have to advertise it.

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.

It's important to learn the right lessons from the past.

The ability to forget the past enables people to free themselves gradually from the pain they once suffered; but it also often makes them repeat the mistakes of their predecessors.

You can’t encore the past. If I see a bright light shining out there, I want to go toward it.

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.

Learn from the past, but don't live there. Build on what you know so that you don't repeat mistakes.