Top 1200 You Can't Change The Past Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

We can all make powerful choices. We can all take back control by not blaming chance, fate, or anyone else for our outcomes. It’s within our ability to cause everything to change. Rather than letting past hurtful experiences sap our energy and sabotage our success, we can use them to fuel positive, constructive change.

In life you cannot be captured by the past. If you're not prepared to change for the future, you will stagnate.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Worry is worthless. It can't change the past or control the future. It only spoils the moment.

You can’t go back, Ever. You can’t change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.

I can't change the past, but I can try to make a better future for me.

The most positive action we can take about the past is to change our perception of it.

It's entirely possible that the notion of what is the past, what is the present and what is the future, could change.

..nothing in your past can change how I feel about you. And God knows I’m no saint.

Like all things, cities must change - even a city as enamoured of the past and memory as D.C.

While I honor the soldiers in my family, and I am a student of history, the past is the past, and I do not live in the past.

The future of ballet is really in the hands of the creators, so if it's something that interests them to push the envelope with gender roles, then I think it will change. But if that's not of interest to a dance-maker, if their interest is to sort of preserve the way things have been done for the past 200 years, then nothing is going to change.

Forget about what happened in the past. The past is the past. Who cares? Time heals things.

Since God himself cannot change the past, He is obliged to tolerate the existence of historians.

Looking inward and understanding where you made mistakes in the past helps you set up for change.

The books we read change over the years as new books come out and they change over the grades. Books we are reading in fifth and sixth grade now may have been seventh and eighth grade books in the past, or the other way around.

Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.

If you live in Europe . . . things change . . . but continuity never seems to break. You don't have to throw the past away.

Each day is an opportunity to travel back into tomorrow's past and change it.

Not One Tiny Slice of that Guilt will Do Anything to Change a Single Thing in the Past

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

We're mathematically past the point where the accumulation of individual actions can add up quickly enough to make a difference. The individual action that actually matters is not being an individual. It's joining together with other people in groups large enough to change the political dynamic around climate change.

It’s what you do in the present that will redeem the past and thereby change the future.

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future.

We cannot go back in time and change the past but we can repent.

I suppose I've been selfish in the past and put my career first. But priorities change.

Science fiction is the branch of literature that deals with the effects of change on people in the real world as it can be projected into the past, the future, or to distant places. It often concerns itself with scientific or technological change, and it usually involves matters whose importance is greater than the individual or the community; often civilization or the race itself is in danger.

You cannot change the past but you can start now and lay the foundation for the future.

I wouldn't change my past for anything, because I think it's made me who I am. I'm so enormously grateful for all that I have in my life.

That's what courage is. Taking your disappointments and your failures, your guilt and your shame, all the wounds received and inflicted, and sinking them in the past. Starting again. Damning yesterday and facing tomorrow with your head held high. Times change. It's those that see it coming, and plan for it, and change themselves to suit, that prosper.

To have known how to change the past into a few saddened smiles-is this not to master the future?

By bringing the past into the present, we create a future just like the past. By letting the past go, we make room for miracles.

We cannot change the past, only recover from it. And perhaps learn its cruel lessons.

In the past, poetry came in the form of spells and chants used to effect change.

Faithfulness to the past can be a kind of death above ground. Writing of the past is a resurrection; the past then lives in your words and you are free.

Change or be changed, right? And what we mean by that is that climate change, if we don't change course, if we don't change our political and economic system, is going to change everything about our physical world.

The great achievements of the past were the adventures of the past. Only the adventurous can understand the greatness of the past.

In difficult times, it's important to speak up. We cannot change the past, but we can impact the future.

People are always shouting they want to create a better future. It's not true. The future is an apathetic void of no interest to anyone. The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future.

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

I learnt one thing in the past or in my life: the only person you can change is yourself, and it has to come from within.

Don't live in the past. There's no point. You can't change anything. What a waste of time.

Your past is something you cannot change. You can't live it; it's dead.

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

Obviously everyone has things in their past that they don't enjoy looking back on [Laughs], but no, you can't change it.

We are shaping the world faster than we can change ourselves, and we are applying to the present the habits of the past.

I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.

The job of an elected president is to overcome the past and change the playing field.

You think I live in the past. You don't understand that I actually change with every era, I always have as best I can

Cornelius Castoriadis, the great French social philosopher of Greek origin, was asked once by an exasperated interviewer: "What do you want, Mr. Castoriadis - to change humanity?" He answered: "No, God forbid, I only want humanity to change itself, as it has done so many times in the past." I would be inclined to answer the same way.

I can't change what has happened in the past, Kaeleigh. I can only promise to make the future better.

If time travel were possible, you still wouldn't be able to change the past - it's already happened!

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.

When I look at efforts to create change in big companies over the past 10 years, I have to say that there's enough evidence of success to say that change is possible - and enough evidence of failure to say that it isn't likely. Both of those lessons are important.

There was no question of generation change or saying goodbye to the past or modernizing sloganising.

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

'Movement is life;' and it is well to be able to forget the past, and kill the present by continual change.