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Worrying about the past or the future isn't productive. When you start chastising yourself for past mistakes, or seeing disaster around every corner, stop and take a breath and ask yourself what you can do right now to succeed.

— Harvey Mackay

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✓Similar Perspectives

Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.

— George Allen, Sr.

I think there's an anxiety in life where we automatically tend to look to the next thing or we're complaining about the past. Worrying is not going to make it happen or not happen.

— Sherilyn Fenn

If you live day by day and do the best you can, then you'll have a great future. If you worry about the future, and you don't live the best day, you're not going to have a future.

— Jason David Frank

Usually, people have a tendency to be caught in the worries concerning the future or in the regret concerning the past. There is some kind of energy that is pushing them to run, and they are not able to establish themselves in the present moment.

— Nhat Hanh

Live in the moment, day by day, and don't stress about the future. People are so caught up in looking into the future, that they kind of lose what's in front of them.

— Jenna Ushkowitz

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

— Lou Reed

I'm just not in a place in my life where I worry about something unnecessarily.

— Brie Larson

I don't really think about my future. I don't really worry about anything. I just try not to spend all my money.

— Christopher Masterson

I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.

— Harold Prince

✗Opposing Perspectives

By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.

— Jack Dempsey