Past Quotes
This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.Agathon
Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Thse who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.George Santayana
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
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
Life is a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of a future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity to matter.Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr.
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.Soren Kierkegaard
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
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
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
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
Never let a stain from the past put a mark on your future.Jillian Graham, Chicken Soup for the Preteen Soul
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.Arthur Wing Pinero
Virtue extends our days: he live two lives who relives his past with pleasure.Marcus Valerius Martialis, Epigrams
We must respect the past, and mistrust the present, if we wish to provide for the safety of the future.Jeseph Joubert
The reading of all good books is indeed like a conversation with the noblest men of past centuries who were the authors of them, nay a carefully studied conversation, in which they reveal to us none but the best of their thoughts.Rene Descartes
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
An election is a bet on the future, not a popularity test of the past.James Barrett Scotty Reston
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
Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.Antoine Rivarol
The rest of the world is sweeping past us. The oil and gas of the Texas future is the well - Educated mind. But we are still worried about whether Midland can beat Odessa at football.Mark White
Every advantage in the past is judged in the light of the final issue.Demosthenes, First Olynthiac
It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.Elizabeth II
This only is denied to God: the power to undo the past.Agathon, from Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - - And in fact we have forgotten.Euripides
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.George Steine
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there.L. P. Hartley, The Go - Between
The past is the tomorrow that got away.Leonard L. Levinson
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
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
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear - Brought experience.George Washington
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.Francis Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10, 000 men to guard the past.Maurice Masterlinck
History repeats itself and history never repeats itself are about equally trueWe never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.George Macaulay Trevelyan
But the only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.Arthur C. Clarke
Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.James Earl Jimmy Carter, Jr.
Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.Sir William Osle
