Quotes about Reflection
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
- William Wordsworth
Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.
- Rick Warren
Future is everything that past has forgotten.
- Soren Kierkegaard
Check up each week on the progress you are making. Ask yourself what mistakes you have made, what improvement, what lessons you have learned for the future.
- Dale Carnegie
It was becoming a habit-this concentration on things behind him. Almost as though there were no future to be had. *Milkman*
- Toni Morrison
I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is.
- Donald Trump
You can wreck your future running from your past.
- Bishop TD Jakes
Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.
- Nicky Gumbel
As long as we fail to face up to the past and deal with it accordingly, the future will smack of corruption.
- Desmond Tutu
practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I was about to write that in the future I would chose my words more carefully but I'm sure I won't.
- Don Cheadle
The goal is not to be better than anyone else but rather be better than you were yesterday.
- Jon Gordon