Terry Pratchett Quotes

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

Don't be so bitter about a bad experience from your past that you miss the opportunities in front of you.

Don't ever think that you can't change the past.

I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.

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.

You don't have to stay where you are; you can make a change.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

It's a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don't know about you, but I make plenty. You can't turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

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

Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative emotion that inhibits the optimism required to take on new challenges. You risk living in an alternative universe, where if only you had done this or that differently, things would be better. That's a poor substitute for making your actual life better, or improving the lives of others. Regret briefly, analyze and understand, and then move on, improving the only life you have.

Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.

There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

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

Don't waste another moment crying over what went wrong! If it wasn't a blessing - it was a lesson.

Jesus never consults your past to determine your present.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

No matter what mistakes we might have made yesterday, today is the day we can retrieve our innocence.

Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones.

No matter how much time you've wasted in the past, you still have an entire today.

It's a new day, a new beginning for your new life. With discipline you will be amazed at how much progress you'll be able to make. What have you got to lose except the guilt and fear of the past?

What is past is past. You can do nothing about yesterday and last month and the failures of last year, but you can do everything toward making tomorrow and the rest of your life what you always dreamed it could be.

You must learn, you must let God teach you, that the only way to get rid of your past is to make a future out of it. God will waste nothing.

Forget about what you used to do. Don't make those same mistakes again. Everybody says, "Oh the good old days" - the good old days are right this second! This moment controls the next moment.