Jim Rohn Quotes

The past is a sorry country.

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

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymore.

I realized I've spent all my life creating a past.

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.

I'm not big on regret; I don't spend a lot of time on it.

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

You can't live in the past.

There's no point sulking for what has happened in the past.

There is no point staying on the past.

I can't really regret things; you just have to move on and live your life.

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

My biggest life lesson is that the past is the past. I do my best not to bring history into my present. It ain't ever easy, but it usually creates more opportunity for joyful experiences.

The future is meant for those who are willing to let go of the worst parts of the past. When you cannot take two steps without turning around to inspect your footsteps, you are getting nowhere fast.

To be born again is to let the past go, and look without condemnation upon the present.

One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you.

Our most merciless enemy is our past.

Accept the past as past, without denying it or discarding it.

Though the past haunt me as a spirit, I do not ask to forget.

A man is a fool who sits looking backward from himself in the past. Ah, what shallow, vain conceit there is in man! Forget the things that are behind. That is not where you live. Your roots are not there. They are in the present; and you should reach up into the other life.

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

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

We ought to remember the past, yes -- but we shouldn't allow it to consume us. We live in the present moment, and some people are too tied to the ideals of that period to fully move forward. We'll never work through the future unless we accept the present. We must fill the twenty-first century with dreams.

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.