Past Quotes

Don't let the sadness from the past and fear of the future ruin the happiness of the present.

We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.

We know the past but cannot control it. We control the future but cannot know it.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

I have full faith in my people that they will rise to every occasion worthy of our past Islamic history, glory and traditions.

Immorality is just as bad now as it was in the past. The difference is that now we flaunt it. It used to be done in secret, but now it is done in the open.

If the devil starts bringing up your past it's because he's running out of new material!

And be grateful. Our scars have the power to remind us that the past was real.

The past is just data. I only see the future.

If you don't make peace with your past it will keep showing up in your present.

The setting sun, and the music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in rememberance more than long things past.

Declare the past, diagnose the present, foretell the future; practice these acts. As to diseases, make a habit of two things--to help, or at least to do no harm.

You have only one life and it will soon be past, and only what's done for Christ will last.

In my sculpture, it's not an image I am seeking, it's not an idea. My goal is to re-live a past emotion. My art is an exorcism, and beauty is something I never talk about.

Live in the present and shape the future, do not be casting lingering looks to the distant past for the past has passed away, never again to return.

Education must be a great equaliser in our society. It must be the tool to level the differences that our various social systems have created over the past thousands of years.

Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.

The future’s too bright to dwell on the past. Life moves fast, run faster.

I look back at the past as fond memories but I'm able to move forwards in a new light, like I'm reborn.

I wouldn't exactly call it 'cooking' but I can make noodles. That means I can boil water, put the pasta in and wait until it's done.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Don't let the mistakes and disappointments of the past control and direct your future.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

The best thing about the past is that it's over. The best thing about the future is that it's yet to come. The best thing about the present is that it's here now.

I'm past patiently waitin,' I'm passionately smashin' every expectation, every action's an act of creation.

Consequences from evil will make your past haunt you

Lost, yesterday, somewhere between sunrise and sunset, two golden hours, each set with sixty diamond minutes. No reward is offered for they are gone forever.

Don't engage your heart in grief over the past or you wont be ready for what is coming.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

You might have a past..but guess what? You have a future, too.

The past is certain, the future obscure.

There is no future for a people who deny their past.

A man's eyes should be torn out if he can only see the past

We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.

The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Don't start your day with broken pieces of the past. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day and it's yours.

Goal setting has traditionally been based on past performance. This practice has tended to perpetuate the sins of the past.

Once when I was 16 I had my car taken away from me for being past curfew. Oh, and I said a bad word once, and I actually did get my mouth washed out with soap.

The past becomes a texture, an ambience to our present.

A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.

Live out of your imagination, not your history.

As a musician you have to keep one foot back in the past and have one foot forward into the future.

Instead of looking at the past, I put myself ahead twenty years and try to look at what I need to do now in order to get there then.

Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.

You keep your past by having sisters. As you get older, they're the only ones who don't get bored if you talk about your memories.

We must act to shape and mold the future, and leave our imprint on events as they slip past into history.

Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

If I speak of Vienna it must be in the past tense, as a man speaks of a woman he has loved and who is dead.