Past Quotes

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

Buddha

For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.

Dante, The Divine Comedy

Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.

Krishnamurti

Virtue extends our days he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.

Marcus Valerius Martialis

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

George Orwell

Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.

Eric Hoffe

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

Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

George Santayana

I see young men, my townsmen, whose misfortune it is to have inherited farms, houses, cattle, barns, and farming tools, for these are more easily acquired than gotten rid of. Better if they had been born in the open pasture and suckled by a wolf, that they might have seen with clearer eyes what field they were called to labour in.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden

Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.

Demosthenes, First Olynthiac

This ONLY is denied God The power to undo the past.

Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.

Jan Glidewell

I have made good judgements in the Past. I have made good judgements in the Future.

Dan Quayle

Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - - which seldom happens to us.

La Bruyere