Larry Wall Quotes

I don't have the time to think about my past, and I don't think I need to.

I never think about the past. Why waste time thinking about something I cannot change.

I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.

Stop talking about tomorrow. You owe it to yourself to do whatever you can to live you can to live a better life today.

If you do the best and the most you can today, don't worry about tomorrow.

Tomorrow really will take care of itself if I do the right thing today.

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.

A truly successful person knows how to overcome the past, use the present, and prepare for the future-but unless we can first surmount the past, we cannot effectively cope with either the present or the future.

Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.

Half of today is better than all of tomorrow.

If you've got a today, don't wear it tomorrow. Tomorrow never happens. It's all the same day.

You're only as good as you are now - not as good as you were before.

We can influence who we will be tomorrow, for tomorrow can only be built on today.

I try to be a good person. I know what my downfalls are, so that's a good thing.

I'm not interested in nostalgia; I'm interested in who I am.

If I had let myself off the hook in college, I could have enjoyed myself a lot more. Knowing that I can't have those years back, I have learned to get the most out of living in the now.

Inner beauty should be the most important part of improving one's self.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

I would like to think that I'm more different from my character than I am.

Obviously, as you grow up, no one's ever 100 percent proud of every decision that they've made, and that's OK. I think as long as you learn from your mistakes and don't make them over and over again, you're on the right path.

I hope I'm better today than I was yesterday. I don't believe in glory days or anything like that, so I think the best is tomorrow or later this afternoon!

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

Before you can do something you must first be something.

Redeem thy misspent time that's past, And live this day as if thy last.