Past Quotes

Thich nhat hanh - life can be found only in the present moment. the...
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Masterlinck
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Samuel taylor coleridge - there are three classes into which all the women...
People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski
Frank herbert, dune - it is impossible to live in the past, difficult...
You must learn from your past mistakes, but not lean on your past successes.
Denis Watley
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past...
Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)
Philosophy triumphs easily over past evils and future evils but present evils triumph over it.
La Rochefoucauld
I have had enough experience in all my years, and have read enough of the past, to know that advice to grandchildren is usually wasted.
Harry S Truman
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Danger past, God forgotten.
Scottish Prove
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
Krishnamurti
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.
Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
It is difficult to live in the present, ridiculous to live in the future, and impossible to live in the past. Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.
Jim Bishop
Critics are like pigs at the pastry cart.
John Updike
Past and to come seem best things present worst.
Mary Bertone
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis
The present is a rope stretched over the past. The secret to walking it is, you never look down.
Sean Stewart, Perfect Circle, 2004
Geschichte ist... ein Dialog zwischen Gegenwart und Vergangenheit. re - Transl.: History is... a dialogue between the present and the past.
Edward Hallet Carr, Was ist Geschichte?, S. 54
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.
Stephen Ambrose, in Fast Company
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
A strange thing is memory, and hope one looks backward, and the other forward one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Anna Mary Robertson Moses
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 W Dye
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
The past is certain, the future obscure.
Thales
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert Green Ingersoll
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.
Rene Descartes
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about... things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.
La Bruyere
Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
Dr. Dale E. Turne
We must never allow the future to be weighed down by memory. For children have no past, and that is the whole secret of the magical innocence of their smiles.
Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting