Past Quotes
Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past is the success and wisdom of the future.
Tyron Edwards 1809




Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.




Reality is a question of perspective; the further you get from the past, the more concrete and plausible it seems -- but as you approach the present, it inevitably seems incredible.




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




We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.




The reason people find it so hard to be happy is that they always see the past better than it was, the present worse than it is, and the future less resolved than it will be
Marcel Pagnol




So foolish is the heart of man that he ever puts his hope in the future, learning nothing from his past errors and fancying that tomorrow must be better than today.
Mika Waltari




Whatever your past has been, you have a spotless future.
Melanie Gustafson




A relationship is like a rose, How long it lasts, no one knows; Love can erase an awful past, Love can be yours, you'll see at last; To feel that love, it makes you sigh, To have it leave, you'd rather die; You hope you've found that special rose, 'Cause you love and care for the one you chose.
Rob Cella




If we can get them to understand that saying "no" to drugs is rebelling against their parents and the generations of the past, we'd make it an enormous success.
John Van de Kamp




The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly




Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you.
Paul Wilkinson




Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.
Gerald Jampolsky




The earth is warming at an alarming rate, we are running out of fossil fuels, and it is long past time for us to take action to correct these problems.




I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future.




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




One day at a time--this is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past for it is gone; and do not be troubled about the future, for it has not yet come. Live in the present, and make it so beautiful it will be worth remembering




Forget past mistakes. Forget failures. Forget everything except what you’re going to do now and do it.
William Durant




If we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future.




Other holidays repose upon the past; Arbor Day proposes for the future.
Julius Sterling Morton




The first principle of contract negotiation is dont remind them of what you did in the past; tell them what youre going to do in the future.
Stan Musial




The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months!
Edward Payson Powell




We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived; and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.




Dreams don't have to come true at age 20, 30, or 40; they often occur long past when you thought possible.
Anon x




The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.







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