Top 1200 Past And Future Quotes & Sayings - Page 12
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Last updated on April 22, 2025.
Through it [literature] we know the past, govern the present, and influence the future.
A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
Have you never heard what the wise men say: all of the future exists in the past.
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.
If you could not accept the past and its burden there was no future, for without one there cannot be the other.
How can you make sense of the future when you only have data about the past?
What's important now? - To evaluate the past, focus on the future, and tell you what you have to do in the present
We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.
The future comes slowly, the present flies and the past stands still forever.
The ultimate in wisdom is to live in the present, plan for the future and profit from the past.
The present is our future past, we've gotta make this moment last
Presence is like a gap in the flow of history, where all of [a] sudden it is not past and not future.
Use your imagination only on the future, never on the present or the past.
If the present tries to sit in judgment of the past, it will lose the future.
All nations have present, or past, or future reasons for thinking themselves incomparable.
No matter how rich you are, you cannot transport yourself to the future or the past.
I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.
Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about.
The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.
To look back into the past only makes sense if it serves the future.
Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present.
Because I don't live in either my past or my future.I'm interested only in the present".
An over-reliance on past successes is a sure blueprint for future failures.
To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.
I can face anything, except the future, and certain parts of the past and present.
Great wrongs have been done you, but the past is dust. The future may yet be won.
Honour what is most beautiful about the past and build it into the promise of the future.
Children enjoy the present because they have neither a past nor a future.
I don't think China has professional museums - not in the past, present, or near future.
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.
You cannot change the past but you can start now and lay the foundation for the future.
I am not blaming the past. ... But I want the peace of God to settle on the future.
God alone knows the future, but only an historian can alter the past.
Love is content with the present, it hopes for the future and it doesn't brood over the past.
The past is made out of facts...I guess the future is just hope.
The present is no more exempt from the sneer of the future than the past has been.
We can't own each other's past. The questioin is whether we have a future together.
From the example of the past, the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future.
Our racial past and future is something that we Americans must address.
The meeting of two eternities, the past and future....is precisely the present moment.
People must know the past to understand the present, and to face the future.
I'm going to look forward to the future as opposed to looking back at the past.
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.
Instead of past, present and future, I'd prefer chocolate, vanilla, and strawberry.
If you are living in the past or in the future, you will never find a meaning in the present.
We live in the present, we dream of the future and we learn eternal truths from the past.
Remembrance of the past kills all present energy and deadens all hope for the future
The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Time glides with undiscover'd haste; The future but a length behind the past.
In a life which has meaning in it, past and future sustain each other.
People never leave, we are always here in our past and future lives.
History is a light that illuminates the past,
and a key that unlocks the door to the future.
We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.
The fact that war belongs to the past, does not mean it has to be part of the future.
Live in the present, forget the past. Give up hopes of future.
Act with a determination not to be turned aside by thoughts of the past and fears of the future.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
You can't look in the future and can't dwell on the past. It's all about the present and what you do each day.
The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future
