Quotes About 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.

I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

For progressive people the present is the beginning of the future. For conservative people the present is the end of the past.

You can analyse the past, but you need to design the future. That is the difference between suffering the future and enjoying it.

It takes far less courage to cling to the past than it does to face the future".

You can't pick when you're touched. You can't pick the time. It just is. It's the reality. What it is, is. I can't change the past. I can only deal with the present and the future.

Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

Prudence is a presumption of the future, contracted from the experience of time past.

I am never free of the past. I have made it crystal clear that I believe the past is part of the present which becomes part of the future.

The future projects light, the past only clouds

The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.

The future is born, put the past in a casket

Time is the most undefinable yet paradoxical of things; the past is gone, the future is not come, and the present becomes the past, even while we attempt to define it.

The present is big with the future, the future might be read in the past, the distant is expressed in the near.

I remember the past, and I learn from it. I rejoice and celebrate in the present, and I re-imagine the future. Now is the moment that never ends.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

I feel like the blues is actually some kind of documentary of the past and the present - and something to give people inspiration for the future.

A mind that worries about the past is distracted, and a mind that worries about the future is delusional.

The future doesn't exist. It hasn't happened yet. The past doesn't exist. It has already happened.

You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future

Live in the present. The past is gone; the future is unknown - but the present is real, and your opportunities are now.

From the experience of the past we derive instructive lessons for the future.

Focus on the future for 50%, on the present for 40%, and on the past for 10%