Joel A. Barker Quotes

Past glories are poor feeding.

We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.

Life is accepting what is and working from that.

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

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

You need fear and doubt to drive you on. Without it, you end up living in the past and being happy with what you have achieved.

I always think that I love doing what I'm doing at the moment. The past is over. I can't go play one of those characters again. But I can play this and I can continue to grow in what I'm doing at the moment and that's really what I'm thinking about now.

I'm not the kind of person to sit and dwell for ages on something that happened. I go through something, I experience it, I try to learn from it, and I move forward.

I turn my negatives into my positives because one of my mottos is, 'Yesterday's history, tomorrow's a mystery,' meaning that you can't go back and change anything in the past.

The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change.

I'm an incurable optimist, and I'm a great believer in never looking back. Life is too short, and new challenges are exciting.

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.

Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

Don't be so hard on yourself. Be a little harder on yourself. Learn from your experiences. Don't dwell on things. Get on with your life.

'Never Have Your Dog Stuffed' is really advice to myself, a reminder to myself not to avoid change or uncertainty, but to go with it, to surf into change.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

I'm trying to get out of my own way.

We cannot dwell on remembered glory.

You have to look to the future with optimism instead of negative ideas. Take the good and the bad and face it head on.

When you succeed, at a certain point, you want to challenge yourself. Otherwise, you become boring. You become a has-been. It's not very interesting. I don't want to be this guy who has only succeeded in France.

I think we go through our lives limiting our potential, and when times are tough, it's easy to convince ourselves that something isn't possible, but if you start there, then you limit yourself and the possibilities of what you can create.

I don't live in regret land. I live in the now and in the future, and in the dreams that I have.

If I live my life through nostalgia and what I did in the past and expect to be the new kid people have just discovered again, then unfortunately, I'm creating my own demise.

I learnt a lot from a psychological point of view about having to move on and flush things and not live on previous mistakes.