Jim Rohn Quotes

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

The practical value of history is to throw the film of the past through the material projector of the present on to the screen of the future.

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

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.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

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

I believe we need to learn from our past.

I can't change history but only learn from 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.

One has to learn from history. Quite frankly, it is almost impossible to have a sense of vision without a sense of history. If history is learned, then it doesn't have to repeat itself over generations.

Everyone must learn from the past.

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

I am everything I am today, because of my past.

Peter Jones's is a vital public service. He reminds us that while we shouldn't live in the past, we are wiser and stronger when we live with it.

You can't make sense of the present unless a part of you lives in the past.

Look at what happened in the Past. Learn something valuable from it. Do things differently in the present.

The past is what we have to learn about how to direct America to the future.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

I'm not into nostalgia, and I only look back to find lessons.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

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

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

If you read enough biography and history, you learn how people have dealt successfully or unsuccessfully with similar situations or patterns in the past. It doesn't give you a template of answers, but it does help you refine the questions you have to ask yourself.

We cannot fling ourselves into the blank future; we can only call up images from the past. This being so, the important principle follows, that how many images we have largely depends on how much past we have.

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