Past Quotes
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
To live in the past or in the future may be less satisfying than to live in the present, but it can never be as disillusioning.R. D. Laing
We are a people who do not want to keep much of the past in our heads. It is considered unhealthy in America to remember mistakes, neurotic to think about them, psychotic to dwell on them.Lillian Hellman
I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.Alan Watts
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.John Buchan
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
One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.Anatole France
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.Jean De La Bruyere
One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.Michael Cibenko
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.Buddha
Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge.Cicero
Those who stare at the past have their backs turned to the future.Unknown
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
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.Sir Winston Churchill
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Jeseph Joubert
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.Robert Benchley
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.Virginia Woolf
A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, he is one who is prematurely disappointed in the future.Sidney J. Harris
Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.Thomas Jefferson
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.Buddha
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
Forgiveness means letting go of the past.Gerald Jampolsky
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.I Ching
A garden is evidence of faith. It links us with all the misty figures of the past who also planted and were nourished by the fruits of their planting.Gladys Tabe
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept as incurable those of the present.Fairfield Osborne
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.Charles Dickens
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning".
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.Lewis Mumford
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
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
