Quotes about Past
Our most treasured family heirloom are our sweet family memories. The past is never dead, it is not even past.
- William Faulkner
There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband.
- Oscar Wilde
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 Swindoll
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
How very near us stand the two vast gulfs of time, the past and the future, in which all things disappear.
- Marcus Aurelius
Not to know the events which happened before one was born, that is to remain always a boy.
- Cicero
To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child. For what is the worth of human life, unless it is woven into the life of our ancestors by the records of history?
- Cicero
Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.
- Oprah Winfrey
But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on.
- Abraham Lincoln
Let us remember the past with gratitude, live the present with enthusiasm, and look forward to the future with confidence.
- Pope John Paul II
It isn't the past which holds us back, it's the future; and how we undermine it, today.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Life is divided into three terms - that which was, which is, and which will be. Let us learn from the past to profit by the present, and from the present, to live better in the future.
- William Wordsworth