Past Quotes

This only is denied even to God: the power to undo the past.

Study the past if you would divine the future.

There is a way to look at the past. Don’t hide from it. It will not catch you – if you don’t repeat it.

To yackety-yak about the past is for me time lost. Every morning I wake up saying, ‘I’m still alive – a miracle.’ And so I keep on pushing.

Once Around the Sun – Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

The past should be a springboard not a hammock.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it.

The free world must now prove itself worthy of its own past.