Famous Past Quotes
Reflect upon your present blessings – of which every man has many – not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.
Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
Push past your comfort zone and embrace challenges. It's through adversity that you truly grow.
No man is rich enough to buy back his past.
We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience.
You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure.
Leave the past behind, embrace the future.