Looking Ahead Quotes

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future.

You can't base your life on the past or the present. You have to tell me about your future.

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.

The point is not to look back, but to look ahead to what you hope still to do.

I think we all agree, the past is over.

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead, that is where your future lies.

I don't do a lot of looking back; I tend to look ahead.

Don't use the hardships of your past as excuses to deny the possibilities of your future.

The key is to remember there is a tomorrow morning. The dance will continue.

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

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.

I don't live in the past. I don't play my old records for that reason. I make a statement, then move on to the next.

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.

Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one.

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.

The past is past. There is no point in repeating what you did in the past.

Perspective is not a science but a hope.

The past is history. I can't change any of that.

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long.

One cannot afford to be nostalgic about the past and cling onto it.

We're not prisoners of the past.

You have to live in the future, not the past.

The past is the past, and we have to look forward.

The Past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.