Past Quotes

The past is gone, the future is not here, now I am free of both. Right now, I choose joy.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

Our past is not the thing that matters so much in this world as what we intend to do with the future.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

The past is what the present is doing now.

I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it.

Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes for the future.

Sometimes when she told stories about the past her eyes would get teary from all the memories she had, but they weren't tears. She wasn't crying. They were just the memories, leaking out.

I have memories - but only a fool stores his past in the future.

The challenge we now face is to build on the record of the past, to continue accepting new responsibilities and seeking new opportunities to serve.

Loved. You can't use it in the past tense. Death does not stop that love at all.

Worry is a waste of energy. It cant change the past. It cant control the future. It only makes today miserable

I have a good team around me. I have people I trust around me. If I go the wrong way, they will yell at me. Just as they have in the past.

Music evokes so many feelings in us, memories, nostalgia, things that are connected to our past.

Traditionally, photography is supposed to capture an event that has passed; but that is not what I'm looking for. Photography brings the past into the present when you look at it...

Kuwait is the mother and father, Earth and it's supplies. She is the past, present and future.

We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.

The challenge of history is to recover the past and introduce it to the present.

We should try to be the parents of our future rather than the offspring of our past.

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour

For what is a person without memories? A ghost, trapped between worlds, without an identity, with no future, no past.

The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition.

I like hiring people based on a feeling - this person gets it - rather than what they've done in the past.

George Orwell said, "Whoever controls the past controls the future," by which he meant that history is incredibly important in shaping the world view of the next generation of people.

Audiences forget facts, but they remember stories. Once you get past the jargon, the corporate world is an endless source of fascinating stories.

I putter. I nurse old grudges. I fold origami while nursing old grudges. I think about the past. I wonder if there’s any grudges I should start.

If you want to experience eternal illumination, put the past and the future out of your mind and remain within the present moment.

You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.

For the past 10 years, corporations have been trained that they should use all the different media... But the internet is becoming the umbrella.

A past may chase you if you try to escape from it... but once you confront it, it's just an old memory inside you. There's nothing to be afraid of.

This generation lacks true knowledge of how the past has trapped you with psychological lassos over Adam's apples.

If you’re worrying about the past, you’ve got a good chance of screwing up the future.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

It takes true strength of character to redefine your limits by pushing past them.

Nothing ever gets anywhere. The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere. The moment is the only thing that counts.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

Takes a long time to happen so fast... To realize that your future is somebody else's past

Maybe if we tell the truth about the past, we can tell the truth about the present.

No matter what a man's past may have been, his future is spotless.

You have the same DNA as the greats of the past who started revivals.

Water is finite and we have not done a great job of managing it in the past.

When your past calls, don't answer. It has nothing new to say.

God looked through eternity past and He saw you and He chose to reach out and redeem you by His own grace. It's hard to imagine that kind of love.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Life is wonderful, so revel in its beauty. Be all you can be, and let go of the past. It is nothing but shadows.

Forget the past and live the present hour.

Stay More' is synonymous with 'Status Quo' in fact, there are people who believe, or who like to believe, that the name of the town was intended as an entreaty, beseeching the past to remain present.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

You can't let your past hold your future hostage.