Quotes about the past

My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future.

John F. Kennedy

Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them.

Oscar Wilde

You aren’t your past, you are probability of your future.

Oprah Winfrey

Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even in high school I was very interested in history – why people do the things they do. As a kid I spent a lot of time trying to relate the past to the present.

George Lucas

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

William Glasser

I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.

Alan Watts

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives – of approving of some and disapproving of others.

Charles Darwin

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

Maya Angelou

The past is one evil less and one memory more.

Elbert Hubbard