Overcoming Past Quotes

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

Everything we are is anchored in our childhoods. The drama comes in how we deal with it. Are we slaves to our past, or can we rise above it? This is the stuff of great stories.

You can get over a broken past if you decide to believe that there's nothing in your past that can keep you from having a great future.

We need the courage to learn from our past and not live in it.

My burden is my past as a TV star. But, you know, pasts cannot be a life sentence.

No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today!

It doen't matter what you've been through, where you come from... none of that matters. What matters is how you choose to love, how you choose to express that love through your work, through your family, through what you have to give to the world.

I don't mind talking about dad and stuff, because that's part of my life, you know? For me to pretend to be like him, and do the same things he used to do is over. I can see past it now. It took me thirty-eight years and sobriety to realize who Jason Bonham is.

There is growth. Get out of the past.

The danger would be going back, or staying still. The only way out was through. The past was ruins, but the present was still in play.

Each day of your life, as soon as you open your eyes in the morning, you can square away for a happy and successful day. It's the mood and the purpose at the inception of each day that are the important facts in charting your course for the day. We can always square away for a fresh start, no matter what the past has been. It's today that is the paramount problem always. Yesterday is but history.

The minute that we change our minds, and stop giving power to the past, the past with its mistakes loses power over us.

No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.

I'm not going to the past, and it's not tied to me, every time moving forward, and this is more important - to move forward every time.

You've got to give your past attention, but you've got to forgive yourself, acknowledge what you did wrong, and be a man, taking responsibility. You can't not fly anymore because of the things you've been through. You've got to believe in a brighter future, that better version of yourself.

Our past is not our potential.

My whole life I've been trying to prove I'm not just yesterday.

Many of us marvel at the icy insensitivity with which women snuff out their armours. But if they did not blot out the past in this manner, life for them would lose all dignity and they could never resist the fatal familiarities to which they once submitted.

Recognizing and confronting our history is important. Transcending our history is essential. We are not limited by what we have done, or what we have left undone. We are limited only by what we are willing to do.

Childhood decisions do not have to define you.

There was a certain point in my life where I had to decide that I was going to take my future and Nicole's and not wallow in what happened to me because when you do that, you just keep repeating what's been happening and at some point you have to make a choice.

Your past is not your potential.

My life would be a reflection of my childhood, but it isn't; it is a reflection of the dreams that I had as a child for a better life.

And we need to share our story. Not with everyone but with someone. There is someone who is like you were. And he or she needs to know what God can do. Your honest portrayal of your past may be the courage for another's future.

And if you were always spending your time getting over your past, how were you supposed to get on with your future?