Inspirational past and future quotes will encourage you to think a little deeper than you usually would and broaden your perspective.
Most Famous Past And Future Quotes
When you accept things as they are, you allow yourself to make choices, that will help create the change you seek. Patricia Dsouza
I have great respect for the past. If you don’t know where you’ve come from, you don’t know where you’re going. I have respect for the past, but I’m a person of the moment. I’m here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I’m at, then I go forward to the next place. Maya Angelou
You couldn’t erase the past. You couldn’t even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right. Ann Brashares
One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good. Gretchen Rubin
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future. Philip Emeagwali
I must not fear. Fear is the mind killer. Fear is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone, there will be nothing. Only I will remain. Frank Herbert
Today I am leading because yesterday I was reading. Amit Kalantri
Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones. Thich Nhat Hanh
If we wish to see where our future is headed, all we need to do is have a look at our past and that will tell us all the answers. Anthony T. Hincks
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
When I think of what I already lived through it seems to me I was shedding my bodies along the paths. Clarice Lispector
The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people. Kailash Satyarthi
When the uncertain future becomes the past, the past, in turn, becomes uncertain. Mohsin Hamid
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
Don’t torture yourself over the past. Use it as a teacher. Whatever happened to you in the past, has only prepared you for now. Robert Tew
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Modern science says. The sun is the past, the earth is the present, the moon is the future. From an incandescent mass we have originated, and into a frozen mass we shall turn. Merciless is the law of nature, and rapidly and irresistibly we are drawn to our doom. Nikola Tesla
The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. H.G. Wells
It’s great to reminisce about good memories of my past. It was enjoyable when it was today. So learning to enjoy today has two benefits it gives me happiness right now, and it becomes a good memory later. George Foreman
I saw this was the way of the future, to leave the past behind as if it were a dream. Alice Hoffman
Successful people maintain a positive focus in life no matter what is going on around them. They stay focused on their past successes rather than their past failures, and on the next action steps they need to take to get them closer to the fulfillment of their goals rather than all the other distractions that life presents to them. Jack Canfield
You know that old phrase Those who don’t remember the past are condemned to repeat it? Well, I think those who remember the past are even worse off. Chuck Palahniuk
See, when you drive home today, you’ve got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you’ve got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what’s happened in your past is not near as important as what’s in your future. Joel Osteen
It has shown me that everything is illuminated in the light of the past. It is always along the side of us on the inside, looking out. Jonathan Safran Foer
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
Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as I start to run? Jeanette Winterson
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. Johnny Cash
History would be a revelation of the future as much as it was a study of the past. Arundhati Roy
No matter what has happened to you in the past or what is going on in your life right now, it has no power to keep you from having an amazingly good future if you will walk by faith in God. God loves you! He wants you to live with victory over sin so you can possess His promises for your life today! Joyce Meyer
The past is a demon that not even death can shake. Steven Erikson
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all. Queen Elizabeth II
Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it. George Santayana
I don’t care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it. Sebastian Vettel
The distance to the corner shops of childhood becomes unfathomable, immeasurable the candy bars have changed. And change has changed. Ilse Aichinger
Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope. Corazon Aquino
What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you’ve done and supported it with arms unfit to carry it all. K. Weikel
Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. Swami Sivananda
The past, which as always did not know the future, acted in ways that ask to be imagined before they are condemned. Or even simplified. Paul Fussell
We’re our own worst enemy. You doubt yourself more than anybody else ever will. If you can get past that, you can be successful. Michael Strahan
If you do not cultivate your life’s environment, you will not captivate the worlds enlightenment. Ricky Maye
Have you not noticed that love is silence? It may be while holding the hand of another, or looking lovingly at a child, or taking in the beauty of an evening. Love has no past or future, and so it is with this extraordinary state of silence. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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What you had yesterday is only memories what you will have tomorrow is your dreams and what you will do today, let it be love. Santosh Kalwar
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Why ruin the present by talking about the past? Victor Robert Lee
Once I knew only darkness and stillness my life was without past or future but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living. Helen Keller
We cannot change the past. We can only take action in the present and, therefore, change the future. Ken Poirot
Most of us have fond memories of food from our childhood. Whether it was our mom’s homemade lasagna or a memorable chocolate birthday cake, food has a way of transporting us back to the past. Homaro Cantu
I can’t. You can’t rewrite the past. Jay Asher
The future doesn’t exist. The only thing that exists is now and our memory of what happened in the past. But because we invented the idea of a future, we’re the only animal that realized we can affect the future by what we do today. David Suzuki
One cannot and must not try to erase the past merely because it does not fit the present. Golda Meir
Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable. George S. Patton
Bitterness and blame only imprison us and prevent us from moving forward. Miquel Reina
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future. Frederick Douglass
You cannot build an empire on a graveyard. The ghosts of the past will it down. Shreya Naik
The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln
Love can only be true and free when you are fully healed from painful past and any form of brokenness. Kemi Sogunle
Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future. Lewis B. Smedes
Leaders build the future with clays of the past. Every good moment gives them ideas every bad moment gives them lessons. Israelmore Ayivor
There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of a comfortable past which, in fact, never existed. Robert Kennedy
It was strange how the future seemed tied inseparably to the past, so that both revolved through the present, like a great Wheel. Tad Williams
With the past, I have nothing to do nor with the future. I live now. Ralph Waldo Emerson
If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. Mercedes Lackey
