While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.
Ronald Reagan

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today - and in fact we have forgotten.
John F. Kennedy

For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
John F. Kennedy

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

Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.
George Orwell

The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.
Tony Robbins

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

As in geology, so in social institutions, we may discover the causes of all past changes in the present invariable order of society.
Henry David Thoreau

If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
Warren Buffett

We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
George Washington

Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.
Theodore Roosevelt

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

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.
Niccolo Machiavelli

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

There's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George Carlin

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

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.
Joel Osteen