Quotes about the past

While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise – sometimes with astonishment – how happy we had been.

Nikos Kazantzakis

My life can be so arranged that I can live on whatever I have. If I cannot live as I have lived in the past, I shall live differently, and living differently does not mean living with less attention to the things that make life gracious and pleasant or with less enjoyment of things of the mind.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t let the doom criers and the cynics persuade you that the best is past.

Ronald Reagan

The man who commands efficiently must have obeyed others in the past, and the man who obeys dutifully is worthy of someday being a commander.

Cicero

The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is where the seeds of the future were planted. I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

Albert Einstein

You will give birth to more in the future than you’ve lost in the past.

Joel Osteen

Each day there are a million divine wonders, acts of human kindness, and beautiful sights. Yet we are too checked out or busy thinking about yesterday or tomorrow to even sense the magic.

Brendon Burchard

Time is totally perishable and cannot be stored. Yesterday’s time is gone forever, and will never come back. Time is always in short supply. There is no substitute for time. Everything requires time.

Peter Drucker

I have great respect for the past.

Maya Angelou

We cannot overstate our debt to the Past, but the moment has the supreme claim.

Ralph Waldo Emerson