Evan Esar Quotes

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

I don't look back. I don't live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you're bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere.

I don't ever think about the roads I didn't take because I spend too much time thinking what's ahead. I don't go backwards.

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.

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

I try very hard not to look back.

I don't care how my past was or what I had to go through.

I don't like having regrets, I think it's important not to.

We can't worry about what's happened in the past. We can't go back and play those games.

You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.

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

I've been scared and I've liked not hanging on to stuff where I know that I'm in my comfort zone.

Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it's no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.

I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

I'm not someone who lives in the past; I find other people live in my past. I live in the present and the future.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

I am the type of guy that always looks into the future. But, of course, you never completely forget a javelin in your shoulder.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

There is a fine balance between honoring the past and losing yourself in it. For example, you can acknowledge and learn from mistakes you made, and then move on and refocus on the now. It is called forgiving yourself.

No matter the bad things that happened in past time, let's try to live the best we can now.

It's hard to avoid the past but one goes forward.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.