Past Quotes
History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.Arabian Prove
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides
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
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.Euripides, Phrixus
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.Harry S Truman
There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.Lillian Eichler Watson
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
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
The future is a hundred thousand threads, but the past is a fabric that can never be rewoven.Orson Scott Card, Xenocide
The past is certain, the future obscure.Thales
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the future.Unknown
The mind of man is capable of anything - - Because everything is in it, all the past as well as all the future.Joseph Conrad
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.Andr Gide
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
Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.Oprah Winfrey
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
The past is a guide post, not a hitching post.L. Thomas Holdcroft
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
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
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
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present and keep the promise to posterity.Harold J. Seymore
Be positive in addressing the envelope to your future, For enclosed are your efforts from the past. Be certain of the postage and double check what class.Unknown
Events in the past may be roughly divided into those which probably never happened and those which do not matter.William Ralph Inge
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Jeseph Joubert
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.Maya Angelou
You can never plan the future by the past.Edmund Burke
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
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.Dante, The Divine Comedy
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.Oswald Chambers
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
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
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.Lewis Mumford
Forget the past and live the present hour.Sarah Knowles Bolton
