Past Quotes

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.
Gerald Jampolsky
The past is but the past of a beginning.
H. G. Wells
Melody beattie - gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. it turns...
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
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing that was worthy in the past departs no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die.
Thomas Carlyle
We can pay our debt to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.
John Buchan
Frank herbert, dune - it is impossible to live in the past, difficult...
Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it for tomorrow is not, until today is past.
Sophocles
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
Oswald Chambers
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
In short, the building becomes a theatrical demonstration of its functional ideal. In this romanticism, High - Tech architecture is, of course, no different in spirit - If totally different in form - From all the romantic architecture of the past.
Dan Cruickshank
Cicero - not to know what has been transacted in former...
Things that are done, it is needless to speak about... things that are past, it is needless to blame.
Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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
To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Fritz Perls
Our achievements speak for themselves. What we have to keep track of are our failures, discouragements and doubts. We tend to forget the past difficulties, the many false starts, and the painful groping. We see our past achievements as the end results of a clean forward thrust, and our present difficulties as signs of decline and decay.
Eric Hoffe
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
To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.
William Shakespeare
Our task is not to fix the blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past...
Mikhail Gorbachev, (1988)
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
I must not fear. Fear is the mind - Killer. Fear is the little - Death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
Frank Herbert, Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear, "Dune".
Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
Robert Benchley
A preoccupation with the future not only prevents us from seeing the present as it is but often prompts us to rearrange the past.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
For there is no greater pain, than to remember in present grief, past happinesses.
Dante, The Divine Comedy
No facts are to me sacred none are profane I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.
L. P. Hartley
It is past all controversy that what costs dearest is, and ought to be, most valued.
Miguel de Cervantes
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past.
Unknown
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
Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
Lewis Mumford
Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future.
Euripides, Phrixus
We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.
Lyndon B. Johnson, December 13, 1963
Women with pasts interest men... they hope history will repeat itself.
Mae West
The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
Isabelle Eberhardt
There are three classes into which all the women past seventy that ever I knew were to be divided 1. That dear old soul2. That old woman3. That old witch.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.
I Ching
Four things come not back - - The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
Arabian Prove
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