In The Past Quotes

I dream of a morning when Filipinos can wake up from the centuries-long sleep that took them from their past and denied them their destiny as a people.

Your accomplishments in the past and present has a link to your future success.

The past was gone and the future had yet to unfold, and he knew he should focus his life on the present…yet his day-to-day existence suddenly struck him as endless and unbearable.

There is the past, and there is the future. The present is never more than the single second dividing one from the other. We live poised on that second as it's hurtling forward—toward what?

You can't do anything about the past, it's done and can't be mended. But the future is different, if you just think what you really want and reach out and take it.

To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.

At some point the future becomes reality. And then it quickly becomes the past.

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.

Burning bridges behind you is understandable. It's the bridges before us that we burn, not realizing we may need to cross, that brings regret.

Of this I am certain, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

Have you noticed, " she asked him, "how we live much of our lives in the past and most of the rest of it in the future? Have you noticed how often the present moment slips by quiet unnoticed?

‎I cannot alter the past, but the future is very much in my hands.

What you listen in heart, are echoes of the past.What you write today, will be echoed in the future.

Was that what it meant to be alive - moving from a brightly lit corridor into a darkened room at every step? Sometimes it felt that way.

How can we prepare for the future if we won’t acknowledge the past?

I don't think much about guys from the past. I'm glad I knew them, but there's a reason they didn't make it into my future.

Although I am no longer caught in the past, the future seems like a ridiculous thing to me. Try to catch it, hold it in your hand. It disappears every time.

If I could somehow know the future, then now should not be like this time.

Yesterday is but to-day’s memory and to-morrow is to-day’s dream.

Nothing is but what is now

If the past, by bringing surprises, did not resemble the past previous to it (what I call the past's past), then why should our future resemble our current past?

Provide for her Future—if you can!—That's my motto!—But a man's just a plain bum who don't provide for his own Past!

Ideas define us, our past, our present, and most importantly, our future.

...[Y]ou cannot successfully navigate the future unless you keep always framed beside it a small clear image of the past.

Many past mistakes paves the road to future discoveries.

Ask yourself:Am I living my past, present or future?

When we live in the past, there is no future.

Don't worry about your future in the past, Otherwise the sense of enjoyment won't last.By Vinay Chawla

People who are stuck in the past, miss out on the beauty of the Present and the possibility of the future!!!

For A Glorious Future: Leave Your Past Behind!

I go backwards and forwards, recapturing the past, wondering about the future—and, most unreasonably, I find myself longing for the past more than for the future.

I may not have had a great background, but I am grateful because nothing could have prepared me for the future than the past I've been through.

Future will forgive us but are you ready to forgive your past?

A poet is born in the present, lives in the past and thinks in the future.

You should live in such a way that looking back at your past later on in the future, you will thank God for your life and for what He has done for you

When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past in turn becomes uncertain

Forget the Past. Doubt the Future. Love the Present.

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

To rid oneself of the past is to forgo the future...

I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream.

Understanding and accepting the decisions you have made, good or bad, will make you bolder. Reflection helps punctuate your past and indent your future.

Your PAST is not your FUTURE. It's just a reference to your future. Your Future is yet to be explored so don't replay your past especially the bad experiences in your anticipated future.

I have a past, okay? And you really don't want to get involved with it.''Everybody's got a past, ' he said. 'That doesn't mean you can't have a future.

Don't grieve over the past, It's all gone!Don't worry about the future, It may never come! Live in the present, And enjoy every moment.

Don't be a prisoner of the past, become a pioneer of the future.

The question was, could he forgive the past in order to have a future with her? Any future?

The feeling or emotion of happiness or joy is always momentary, but it’s only your imaginations, that extend your momentary happiness, for some more time.

But wasn’t time for what was. Was time to settle up the future.

If we’ve somehow become convinced that the script we followed ‘yesterday’ can’t be edited, it will be incredibly difficult to tell the difference between ‘yesterday’ and ‘tomorrow’.

Be happy today, let the past bury and let the future fly.