Past Quotes

Unknown - those who stare at the past have their backs...
When the present is full of gloom, the past becomes haven of refuge that provides relief and inspiration.
Jawahar Lal Neheru
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
Albert Einstein
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
Sidney j. harris - a cynic is not merely one who reads bitter...
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
William Shakespeare
Do not look back. And do not dream about the future, either. It will neither give you back the past, nor satisfy your other daydreams. Your duty, your reward - Your destiny - Are here and now.
Dag Hammarskjold, newpaper quote of the day
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Change is the law of life; and those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
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
Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S Truman
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.
Arthur Wing Pinero
The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benedictions.
William Wordsworth
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.
Buddha
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
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