Mitchell Baker Quotes

You can't go on living in past and having regrets. Its better people have a positive influence on other people's lives than worry about themselves.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

It is a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

I never dwell on what happened. You can't change it. Move forward. Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over. Done. Move forward.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

Choose to get ahead—not get even.

If you hold onto stuff, it holds on to you. It just weighs you down, and it's a waste of energy. Why would I waste my energy on being bitter and hating when I could be using it to go out and do some really good stuff, you know?

People go forward in life. Bitterness and grudges and resentments only poison it.

I stopped hating people. I also tried to see the positives in negative situations that I found myself in.

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.

I let go of the past and choose to accept every situation as being for me and not against me.

I don't look into negative things. Go past mistakes and look forward.

I don't have regrets because they are negative.

I'm constantly on the hunt for insights about happiness or ideas about how to be happier - which probably makes me a somewhat tiresome companion at times.

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

As I have got older, I have become easier on myself. It's about realising things can't be perfect.

I am not a kind of person now who broods over the failures and negatives.

Learn from the past and let it go. Live in today.

Every morning brings new potential, but if you dwell on the misfortunes of the day before, you tend to overlook tremendous opportunities.

When something disappointing happened, my mother would remind me not to let that become my focus. There's still so much to be grateful for.

You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won't receive the good things God has in store.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

At the age of 18, I made up my mind to never have another bad day in my life. I dove into a endless sea of gratitude from which I've never emerged.

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.