Past Quotes

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about... things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
Frederick chiluba - the greatest lesson we can learn from the past......
John fitzgerald kennedy - change is the law of life. and those who look...
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.
Sir William Osle
Bureaucracy defends the status quo long past the time when the quo has lost its status.
Laurence J. Pete
It might be said that Lord Rosebery outlived his future by ten years and his past by more than twenty.
Sir Winston Churchill
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.
Deem not life a thing of consequence. For look at the yawning void of the future, and at that other limitless space, the past.
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.
Maurice Masterlinck
Mark white - the rest of the world is sweeping past us. the...
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
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
Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell
Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Charles Dickens
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
As I rejected amnesty, so I reject revenge. I ask all Americans who ever asked for goodness and mercy in their lives, who ever sought forgiveness for their trespasses, to join in rehabilitating all the casualties of the tragic conflict of the past. On Americans who avoided conscription during the Vietnam War, to Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Gerald R. Ford
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.
Joseph Conrad
God cannot alter the past, but historians can.
Samuel Butle
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.
Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
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
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
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
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
Miguel de Cervantes
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
Look back, and smile on perils past.
Sir Walter Scott
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.
William Ralph Inge
Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent.
Krishnamurti
I say that democracy can never prove itself beyond cavil, until it founds and luxuriantly grows its own forms of art, poems, schools, theology, displacing all that exists, or that has been produced anywhere in the past, under opposite influences.
Walt Whitman
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.
Oprah Winfrey
Memory is a giggling sprite and will not be tamed. She takes flight the moment the present becomes the past.
Real Live Preacher, weblog, 04 - 29 - 04
The first recipe for happiness is Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andr Maurois
The ability to think straight, some knowledge of the past, some vision of the future, some skill to do useful service, some urge to fit that service into the well - Being of the community - These are the most vital things education must try to produce.
Virginia Crocheron Gildersleeve
The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet.
Edward Thomas, Poems (1917) "Early One Morning".
My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
Gene Oliver, Life and the Artistry of Change
I think we agree, the past is over.
George W. Bush, On his meeting with John McCain, Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it; for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles, Trachiniae
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
He who controls the past controls the future.
George Orwell, "Nineteen Eighty - Four".