Quotes about the past

That man lives happy and in command of himself, who from day to day can say I have lived. Whether clouds obscure, or the sun illumines the following day, that which is past is beyond recall.

Horace

Anything done to excess can become a means to numb the pain of our unresolved past.

John Gray

You can never plan the future by the past.

Edmund Burke

While you may have made money doing something a certain way yesterday, there’s no reason to believe you’ll succeed at it tomorrow.

Seth Godin

I never save things and I never take pictures. I wanna live in the moment. I don’t wanna be focusing on the past.

Angelina Jolie

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

A nation which has forgotten the quality of courage which in the past has been brought to public life is not as likely to insist upon or regard that quality in its chosen leaders today – and in fact we have forgotten.

John F. Kennedy

In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man’s new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit.

Nikola Tesla

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Carl Sagan

As the problems are new, we must disenthrall ourselves from the past.

Abraham Lincoln