The Past Quotes

The past exists only in our memories, the future only in our plans. The present is our only reality.

What sets disciplined people apart? - The capacity to get past distractions. Focus on the task at hand.

Who doesn’t respect and value his past, is not worth the honour of the present, and has no right to a future

By honestly acknowledging your past errors, but never damning yourself for them, you can learn to use your past for your own future benefit.

If you believe that feeling bad or worrying long enough will change a past or future event, then you are residing on another planet with a different reality system.

That wall is your mind playing tricks on you. You just need to say, 'One more step, I can do this. I have more in me.' You'll be so proud of yourself once you push yourself past your threshold.

The age of miracles has not past. The Miracle Worker is still ALIVE. His name is Jesus Christ!

O Lord... Once I wanted You so much I didn't even dare walk past Your house- And now I am not even worthy to be let in

You can't change the past, but you can ruin the present by worrying about the future.

Women, in general, are not part of the corruption of the past, so they can give a new kind of leadership, a new image for mankind.

Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

Our past, our present, and whatever remains of our future, absolutely depend on what we do now.

Jesus never consults your past to determine your present.

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future.

What kind of a goalkeeper is the one who is not tormented by the goal he has allowed? He must be tormented! And if he is calm, that means the end. No matter what he had in the past, he has no future.

We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

I always live in the present. I don’t know the future and no longer have the past. The former oppresses me as the possibility of everything, the latter as the reality of nothing.

Sometimes the people with the worst past, create the best future

You know when you're young you think you will always be. As you become more fragile, you reflect and you realize how much comfort can come from the past. Hymns can carry you into the future.

The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

The past is never dead. It's not even past.

When you have abandoned all past and future, it is as if you have come alive. You are here, mindful...the nature of all types of consciousness reveals itself.

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

I dont want to show clothes, I want to show my attitude, my past, present and future. I use memories and future visions and try to place them in todays world.

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

The main object of teaching is not to give explanations, but to knock at the doors of the mind.

Americans care about their past, but for short term gain they ignore it and tear down everything that matters.

Our scars make us know that our past was for real

With my eyes turned to the past, I walk backwards into the future.

I refuse to let past bruises cover the light. It ain't all good, but it's all good enough so I know I'm alright

The past is more than a memory.

If you look at your past and are depressed it means that you are listening to the devil.

In the carriages of the past, you can't go anywhere.

The person who is to succeed will never let his mind dwell on past mistakes. He will forgive the past in his life and in the lives of other people. If he makes a mistake he will at once forgive it.

Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present.

Forget the past, for it is gone from your domain! forget the future, for it is beyond your reach! control the present! Live supremely well now! This is the way of the wise.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

The punters know that the horse named Morality rarely gets past the post, whereas the nag named Self-interest always runs a good race.

Love isn't love until it's past.

Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.

Do not look back to the past, nor forward to the future. Claim only the present, for it holds God's will.

There is more grace in God's heart than there is sin in your past.

An America that looks away is ignoring not just the sins of the past but the sins of the present and the certain sins of the future.

I do not bring forgiveness with me, nor forgetfulness. The only ones who can forgive are dead; the living have no right to forget.

When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.

The best prophet of the future is the past.