Quotes about the past

I felt as if I were walking with Destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial.

Winston Churchill

Awakenings are always terrifying as they force you to realize your past has been lived in confinement, the most disturbing part is when you recognize that the shackle holding you down are largely once you have placed upon yourself, the prison is self constructed.

Dean Karnazes

Today is always the result of actions and decisions taken yesterday. Man, however, whatever his title or rank, cannot foresee the future. Yesterday’s actions and decisions, no matter how courageous or wise they may have been, inevitably become today’s problems,

Peter Drucker

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about; things that have had their course, it is needless to remonstrate about; things that are past, it is needless to blame.

Confucius

I let go of the past and choose to accept every situation as being for me and not against me.

Iyanla Vanzant

If you live in a past dream, you don’t enjoy what is happening right now because you will always wish it to be different than it is.

Don Miguel Ruiz

I always wanted to do a movie that deals with America’s horrific past with slavery, but the way I wanted to deal with it is – as opposed to doing it as a huge historical movie with a capital H – I thought it could be better if it was wrapped up in genre.

Quentin Tarantino

Your past does not determine who you are. Your past prepares you for who you are to become.

Joel Osteen

Despite habit and numbness, a person can find the beginning of the road, and if one has courage, the whole enormous load of fear – the dead weight of the past – can be shed.

Deepak Chopra

I like to live in the past. I don’t think people are going to get much fun in the future.

Winston Churchill