Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.
Lord Byron

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

There have been a lot of changes in recruit training in the past twenty years.
R. Lee Ermey

I firmly believe that you live and learn, and if you don't learn from past mistakes, then you need to be drug out and shot.
R. Lee Ermey

When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
Alexis de Tocqueville

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.
Alan Watts

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.
Marianne Williamson

Our past is a story existing only in our minds. Look, analyze, understand, and forgive. Then, as quickly as possible, chuck it.
Marianne Williamson

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
Tom Peters

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.
William Glasser

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
Charles Darwin

Walking has been ridiculous in college basketball the past 15 years.
Bobby Knight

We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Charles R. Swindoll

Most of the problems a President has to face have their roots in the past.
Harry S. Truman

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

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

Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.
Woodrow Wilson

I will not speak with disrespect of the Republican Party. I always speak with respect of the past.
Woodrow Wilson