Marianne Williamson Quotes

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

I am not nostalgic about things. When you have a kind of improvement, I am not nostalgic about the past.

The most important thing is not stagnating, to keep improving.

We make the future better than the past. We don't hide from history. We make history.

Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future.

The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.

The past is what provides us with the building blocks. Our job today is to create new buildings out of them.

We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.

Our fathers valued change for the sake of its results; we value it in the act.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

So this anchoring in some way, in some important way in the past without repeating the past, but on the basis of the past building something new: that is what is important.

Success follows those adept at preserving the substance of the past by clothing it in the forms of the future.

Slumber not in the tents of your fathers. The world is advancing.

We have to go into the past to go further and further into the future.

You cannot make a living on the past …the stone age did not end because they ran out of stones.

To endeavor to rehabilitate the sabbath of our forefathers is as foolish as to try to make people go back into log houses and cook in a fire-place. Some persons can never realize that the world grows; that what was a help to one age becomes a hindrance to another; that time corrects the mistakes of men and that respect and reverence for our ancestors does not necessarily require us to adopt their clothes or their habits.

The past should have a vote but not a veto.

Many people repeat the past. I'm not interested. I prefer evolution.

As far as it growing, I believe it is always necessary to evolve. I am not one to rest on my laurels.

We should not fear what is new, but we should not throw out that which is in the past but is still valuable.

We can't be beholden to the past.

Change is always good. You can't keep tradition all the time. Yes, Grandma cooked on a wood stove but she would have used electricity if she could.

If I feel like things are getting into a routine, I want them to be different. I need to keep improving and keep moving forward.

We cannot go backward,' Marco says. 'A great deal is not how it used to be.

Each generation must go further than the last or what's the use in it?