Past Quotes

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
Euripides, phrixus - whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the...
Sir winston churchill - for my part, i consider that it will be found...
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
Yes, there is a Nirvanah; it is leading your sheep to a green pasture, and in putting your child to sleep, and in writing the last line of your poem.
Kahlil Gibran, Essay on Robert Frost, quoted in N. Y.. Times: Obit - Editorial, April 1982
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
Oswald Chambers
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
We live in the present, we dream of the future, but we learn eternal truths from the past.
Madame Chiang
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.
Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
Andr gide - in order to be utterly happy the only thing...
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Soren Kierkegaard
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - Act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
Miguel de Cervantes
Learn from the past, Hope for the future, Live in the present.
Ken Lancaste
Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.
Frederick Henry Hedge
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
He who controls the past commands the future. He who commands the future conquers the past.
George Orwell
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are for loving in the present.
Barbara de Angelis
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
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
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
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
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles
The present is the necessary product of all the past, the necessary cause of all the future.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
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
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
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
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
Life can be found only in the present moment. The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life.
Thich Nhat Hanh
A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.
Robert Heinlein, The Notebooks of Lazurus Long
The greatest lesson we can learn from the past... is that freedom is at the core of every successful nation in the world.
Frederick Chiluba
To break a promise is to deny the reality of the past Therefore it is to deny the hope of a real future....
Ursala Lequin
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
Gratitude is born in hearts that take time to count up past mercies.
Charles E. Jefferson