Quotes
Quotes about Past
The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.
God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.
Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.
But all lost things are in the angels' keeping, Love; No past is dead for us, but only sleeping, Love; The years of Heaven with all earth's little pain Make Good Together there we can begin again In babyhood.
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
If I've learned anything in the past quarter century, it is that we cannot federalize virtue.
Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.
The past doesn't equal the future.
Do not anxiously hope for that which is not yet come; do not vainly regret what is already past.
When we put things off until some future-probably mythical-Laterland, we drag the past into the future. The burden of yesterday's incompletions is a heavy load to carry. Don't carry it.
Italia! O Italia! thou who hast The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow plough'd by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. [It., Italia, Italia, O tu cui feo la sorte, Dono infelice di bellezza, ond' hai Funesta dote d'infiniti guai Che in fronte scritti per gran doglia porte.]
Joys too exquisite to last, And yet more exquisite when past.
I have made good judgements in the past. I have made good judgements in the future.
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
Every age has a keyhole to which its eye is pasted.
When age chills the blood, when our pleasures are past-- For years fleet away with the wings of the dove-- The dearest remembrance will still be the last, Our sweetest memorial the first kiss of love.
Yet all that I have learn'd (hugh toyles now past) By long experience, and in famous schooles, Is but to know my ignorance at last, Who think themselves most wise are greatest fools.
It is generally said, "Past labors are pleasant," Euripides says, for you all know the Greek verse, "The recollection of past labors is pleasant." [Lat., Vulgo enim dicitur, Jucundi acti labores: nec male Euripides: concludam, si potero, Latine: Graecum enim hunc versum nostis omnes: Suavis laborum est proeteritorum memoria.
When a language createsâas it doesâa community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past.
Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Leaders are the ones who keep faith with the past, keep step with the present, and keep the promise to posterity. Peter Ferdinand Drucker -Harold J. Seymour.
As so often before, liberty has been wounded in the house of its friends. Liberty in the wild and freakish hands of fanatics has once more, as frequently in the past, proved the effective helpmate of autocracy and the twin-brother of tyranny.
