Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.
Stephen Covey

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne Dyer

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tony Robbins

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Tony Robbins

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.
Winston Churchill

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.
Winston Churchill

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Joel Osteen

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
Muhammad Ali

The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
Bill Cosby

As I have discovered by examining my past, I started out as a child. Coincidentally, so did my brother. My mother did not put all her eggs in one basket, so to speak: she gave me a younger brother named Russell, who taught me what was meant by "survival of the fittest."
Bill Cosby