Past Quotes
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.Melody Beattie
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.Herb Brody
The past is but the beginning of a beginning.H. G. Wells
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
Living in the past is a dull and lonely business looking back strains the neck muscles, causes you to bump into people not going your way.Edna Ferbe
The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.Alfred North Whitehead
Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis
It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.Frank Herbert, Dune
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us and we see nothing but sand the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.George Eliot
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 Russel, who taught me what was meant by survival of the fittest.Bill Cosby
The past is the tomorrow that got away.Leonard L. Levinson
When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor.Martin Luthe
You can never plan the future by the past.Edmund Burke
Nothing is quite so wretchedly corrupt as an aristocracy which has lost its power but kept its wealth and which still has endless leisure to devote to nothing but banal enjoyments. All its great thoughts and passionate energy are things of the past, and nothing but a host of petty, gnawing vices now cling to it like worms to a corpse.Alexis Charles Henri Clrel de Tocqueville
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.George Orwell
Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
The Past Our cradle, not our prison there is danger as well as appeal in its glamor. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repitition.Israel Zangwill
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.Denis Watley
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.Percy Bysshe Shelley
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.Dan Quayle
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.William Shakespeare
History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon.Napoleon Bonaparte
Show us a man who never makes a mistake and we will show you a man who never makes anything. The capacity for occasional blundering is inseparable from the capacity to bring things to pass. The only men who are past the danger of making mistakes are the men who sleep at Greenwood.H. L. Wayland
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.Thomas Carlyle
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits, values, expectations, dreams. The dialectic between past and future will continue to form our lives.Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.Ronald Reagan
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.Mark White
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.Sir William Osle
Most people live ninety percent in the past, seven percent in the present, and that only leaves three percent for the future.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.Sophocles
All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. ... It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.Richard von Weizscke
