Orison Swett Marden Quotes

If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

One thing that is likely to make you lose touch is if you keep in touch with the past too much.

Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.

When you've burned the bridges behind you, don't go starting a fire on the one in front of you.

It's easy to get buried in the past when you try to make a good thing last.

The past is a trail you leave behind, much like the wake of a speedboat. That is, it's a vanishing trail temporarily showing you where you were. The wake of a boat doesn't affect it's course-obviously it can't since it appears behind the boat. So consider this image when you exclaim that your past is the reason you aren't moving forward.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

A fool will lose tomorrow reaching back for yesterday

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

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

You can't go back; I can't go back either, but we can go on.

Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead.

You don't dwell on what you've lost, you just move on.

Think about where you're going and never mind where you've been. Don't spend any more time justifying any of that stuff.

To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.

It was not his habit to dwell on what could have been, but what could never be.

Sometimes it's better not to look back.

I'm at the point where going forward is easier than going back.

There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

Nor is it wiser to weep a true occasion lost, but trim our sails, and let old bygones be.

We had more great times than bad times together, but they've moved on, I've moved on. I have a new team now and I have a new focus.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.