Past Quotes

We, in Africa, have no more need of being 'converted' to socialism than we have of being 'taught' democracy. Both are rooted in our past -- in the traditional society which produced us.

We are not myths of the past, ruins in the jungle, or zoos. We are people and we want to be respected, not to be victims of intolerance and racism.

Architecture is the very mirror of life.You only have to cast your eyes on buildings to feel the presence of the past, the spirit of a place; they are the reflection of society.

My sin in the past: forgiven. My current struggles: covered. My future failures: paid in full all by the marvelous, infinite, matchless grace found in the atoning work of the cross of Jesus Christ.

We seem to have lost. We have not lost. To refuse to fight would have been to lose; to fight is to win. We have kept faith with the past, and handed on a tradition to the future.

In the past, people were born royal. Nowadays, royalty comes from what you do.

The consequences of today are determined by the actions of the past. To change your future, alter your decisions today.

Identity is a prison you can never escape, but the way to redeem your past is not to run from it, but to try to understand it, and use it as a foundation to grow.

Let's say your past is your present and your present is your cash, So I look forward to the future.

If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

The past is to be respected and acknowledged, but not to be worshipped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Leave the past in the past, tomorrows not promised and Todays just a gift i guess thats why its the present

Like two eagles soar as one upon the river of the wind with the promise of forever, we will take the past and learn how to begin.

Nothing is going to remain the way it is. Let us, in the present, study the past, so as to invent the future.

once it's jam, it can't be strawberries anymore.

Love in the past is only a memory. Love in the future is only a fantasy. True love lives in the here and now.

If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

If I had to choose between dribbling past 5 players and scoring from 40 yards at Anfield or shagging miss world, it'd be a hard choice. Thankfully, i've done both

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.

The smell of moist earth and lilacs hung in the air like wisps of the past and hints of the future.

Remember the past, plan for the future, but live for today, because yesterday is gone and tomorrow may never come.

Man has always learned from the past. After all, you can't learn history in reverse!

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

My yesterdays walk with me. They keep step, they are gray faces that peer over my shoulder.

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.

The past is no more; the future not yet. Nothing exists except the here and now. Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at our hands.

You can't master your future if you're still a slave to your past.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present.

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Everyone has got to realise you can't hold onto the past if you want any future. Each second should lead to the next one.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

Regret is useless in life. It's in the past. All we have is now.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

The years go by one after the other; time slips past us with out our being aware of it; we grow old like ordinary men and we shall end like them.

The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.

The greatest obstacle to enlightenment is getting past your delusion that you are not already enlightened.

NOW is the only reality. All else is either memory or imagination.

Do not encumber your mind with useless thoughts. What good does it do to brood on the past or anticipate the future? Remain in the simplicity of the present moment.

I don't have a past. I have a continuous present. The past is part of the present, just as the future is. We exist in time.

When you realize the value of all life, you dwell less on what is past and concentrate more on the preservation of the future.

The Blood of Jesus washes away our past and the Name of Jesus opens up our future.

Our task is not to fix blame for the past, but to fix the course for the future.

People do not come into therapy to change their past but their future.