Past Quotes

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha

Future, Mind, Moment

Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

Life, Change, Future

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.
John F. Kennedy

Future, Blame, Accept

Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now.
Denis Waitley

Time, Future, Live

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Steve Jobs

Life, Change, Morning

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.
LaToya Jackson

Family, Future, Real

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde

Future, Sinner, Saint

When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.
Bernard Meltzer

Change, Future, Forgive

A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots.
Marcus Garvey

History, Knowledge, Culture

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

Future, Between, Present

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Poor, Peaceful, Wars

You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.
Johnny Cash

Time, Failure, Mistakes

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Look back, and smile on perils past.
Walter Scott

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.
Abraham Lincoln

High, Act, Quiet

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

Future, Lost, Find

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Tony Robbins

Failure, Enjoy, Living

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski

Time, Blame, Enough

I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Thomas Jefferson

Dreams, History, Future

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

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The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.
Andre Maurois

Happiness, Avoid, Meditation

Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future.
Audrey Hepburn

Future, Enjoy, Present

In this bright future you can't forget your past.
Bob Marley

Future, Forget, Bright

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya Angelou

Future, Present, Prejudice

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.
Richard Bach

Change, Future, Mind

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix

Hurt, Nothing, Regret

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
Oscar Wilde

Enough, Rich, Buy

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne Dyer

Life, Future, Live

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

Life, Future, Heart

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.
Dalai Lama

Change, History, Government

We have one life; it soon will be past; what we do for God is all that will last.
Muhammad Ali

Life, God, Last

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