
Top 100 Past Will Quotes
#1. If you cling to an experience that cannot accommodate change, this can cause you to become a victim of that change. He who worships the past will remain there.
Myles Munroe
#2. Obviously, I'm still building a name and reputation for myself. The stigmas that come with my past will remain there for quite some time, but I'm not afraid to challenge those things, and I never have been.
Sasha Grey
#3. Your desire or beliefs will literally be reaching back into time, teaching the nerves new tricks. Definite reorganizations in that past will occur in your present, allowing you to behave in entirely new fashions. Learned behavior therefore alters not only present and future but also past conduct.
Jane Roberts
#4. For this equilibrium now in sight, let us trust that mankind, as it has occurred in the greatest periods of its past, will find for itself a new code of ethics, common to all, made of tolerance, of courage, and of faith in the Spirit of men.
Albert Claude
#5. Railing against the past will not heal us. History has happened. It's over and done with. All we can do is to change its course by encouraging what we love instead of destroying what we don't.
Arundhati Roy
#6. The past will only catch you, if you ran from it to begin with.
Nikki Rowe
#7. The past will always be there but that doesn't mean you have to be.
Eric Shoars
#8. Time that is spent dwelling on the past will surely continue in your present moment - and the future.
Michelle Cruz-Rosado
#9. Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.
Wayne L. Misner
#10. He says to me, Ranulph, he says ... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.
Hope Mirrlees
#11. Think there is nothing we can do to change the past, so we have to look at the present to make sure that the past will never repeat itself again.
Heinz Fischer
#12. History, by apprising [the people] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.
Thomas Jefferson
#13. When Time who steals our years away Shall steal our pleasures too, The mem'ry of the past will stay, And half our joys renew.
Thomas Moore
#14. It baffles me that people think that obliterating the past will save them from its consequences, as if throwing away the empty cake plate would help you lose weight.
Timothy B. Tyson
#15. To people who think I'm happy, just look again; the scars of my past will lead you to a place no one knows, a place no other person can imagine, a place that echoes with the desolate cries of a lonely heart, a place where I'm being stabbed to death hundreds of times.
Manoj Kumar Duppala
#16. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats.
Oscar Wilde
#17. You will have to live with those memories and make them into something new. Only by acceptance of the past will you alter its meaning.
T. S. Eliot
#18. It is one of the ironies of my life and in many lives that whenever you are the happiest, all of this stuff from the past will come pushing up and demand to be noticed.
Sylvia Fraser
#19. The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
Joel A. Barker
#20. If you can create a bright future, the past will dance with joy in your mind for the experience and to let you suffer.
Debasish Mridha
#21. the past will influence your future, but it doesn't have to destroy it.
Ellen Hopkins
#22. I've made mistakes, been broken by evil, and wished fervently for my life to be taken from me. The past will never change. But my imperfect past brought me here, and it's a remarkable place to be. All I've suffered, all you have suffered, Kathryn, has not made us weak. It has made us wise.
Kirsten Beyer
#23. Most historians don't much like generalizations. Indeed, they make a trade of showing that this or that generalization about the past will not work here or there or then.
Edmund Morgan
#24. One day, When the whole world is in flames, The past will be the future through the eyes of the innocent.
Anonymous
#25. There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.
Terry Eagleton
#26. Happy but isn't the human factor what connexus a deeply to our past will future generations care as much for chronologies and casualty statistics as they would for the personal accounts of individuals not so different from themselves.
Max Brooks
#27. And once I am free to run, not even the shadows of the past will be able to catch me.
Jessica Khoury
#28. I believe that the rising of the proletariat, if it ever comes in this country, will end in a colossal victory for capitalism - that capitalism, as at present and in the past, will play off one mob against another, and pick the pockets of both.
Franklin Foer
#29. You Plan what your past will be, Then live your future like is was created on purpose.
Joe Goodrich
#30. Those who are unwilling to confront the past will be unable to understand the present and unfit to face the future.
Bernard Lewis
#31. I've heard it said before that those who don't learn from the past are bound to repeat it, and I just don't know what I think about that. I figure I don't have too much use for it. The past will just weigh on you if you spend too much time remembering it.
Wiley Cash
#32. The past will be your teacher if you learn from it; your master if you live in it.
Steve Maraboli
#33. The secret to life is to have no fear. When you can let go of what others think about you, how something is going to turn out, or how your past will affect your future, then you are finally living life free.
Shannon L. Alder
#34. Reliving your painful past will poison your heart and your tomorrow.
Bryant McGill
#35. People make mistakes. Get over it. You thought he was Mr Right but you were wrong. He thought you were his angel but he was wrong. Dwelling on the past will get you nowhere.
Holly Chamberlin
#36. History by apprising them [the people] of the past will enable them to judge of the future ... It will qualify them as judges of the actions and designs of men: it will enable them to know ambition under every disguise it may assume; and knowing it, to defeat its views.
Thomas Jefferson
#37. Your minds PERCEPTION of the past will change your future vision, and either prevent or propel forward progress in life.
Joe Goodrich
#38. We can never run away from our past. The past will catch up to us because it is us. It is a part of us; it's what makes us we are. It's what delineates the borders of our societies.
Joshua Oppenheimer
#39. What happened in Your past will help accelerate you to your future
Marcelle Hinkson
#40. Don't ignore the past, but deal with it, on your own pace. Once you deal with it, you are free of it; and you are free to embrace your life and be a happy loving person because if you don't, the past will come back to haunt and keep coming back to haunt you.
Boris Kodjoe
#41. Echoes of my past will always have a low frequency vibration in my present lest I forget the road travelled to reach the enjoyment of today.
Truth Devour
#42. Make the present good, and the past will take care of itself.
Knute Rockne
#43. As authentic as it is riveting and ultimately unforgettable. Your past will find you-and it can change your life. I think it's the most soulful book Patti Callahan has ever written.
Dorothea Benton Frank
#44. History gives us a kind of chart, and we dare not surrender even a small rushlight in the darkness. The hasty reformer who does not remember the past will find himself condemned to repeat it.
John Buchan
#45. Those who seem to despise half of America will never be trusted to govern any of it. Those who cherish only the country's past will not be entrusted with its future.
David Frum
#46. Those who continue to live in the past will never have a future!
Beem Weeks
#47. All the sculptures of today, like those of the past, will end one day in pieces ... So it is important to fashion ones work carefully in its smallest recess and charge every particle of matter with life.
Alberto Giacometti
#48. If you are innately skeptical of other people's motives, then no amount of good behavior in the past will ever truly convince you that they are not just about to disappoint you. Suspicion is a permanent condition.
Marcus Buckingham
#49. No man who is correctly informed as to the past will be disposed to take a morose or desponding view of the present.
Thomas B. Macaulay
#50. At some point on your road you have to turn and start walking back towards yourself. Or the past will pursue you, and bite the nape of your neck, leave you bleeding in the ditch. Better to turn and face it with such weapons as you possess.
Hilary Mantel
#51. The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future.
Philip Emeagwali
#52. I know the past will drag you backward and down, have you snatching at whispers of wind and the gibberish of trees rubbing together, trying to decipher some code, trying to piece together what was broken. It's hopeless. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside you like a stone.
Lauren Oliver
#53. The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal behavior.
C.S. Lewis
#54. Pain in your past will become power in your future. So make suffering essential.
Debasish Mridha
#55. The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but ... what we ought to avoid.
Jose Ortega Y Gasset
#56. Fearing the future & worrying about repeating the past will always rob one of the present moment.
Timothy Pina
#57. Stupid young people, what did they expect to achieve by rummaging around like this? Those who poke around in the past will get a stick in the eye. A beam would be better, though.
Sofi Oksanen
#58. I think the rules are going to have to change for me to ever run for public office. My checkered past will always keep me out of politics.
Bruce Willis
#59. I love you, but I love the past even more. I long for it, I long for it, I am consumed with longing for it. The past! I shall cry, I shall suffer because the past will never come back again.
Henri Barbusse
#60. The past will forever be a part of my present as well as my future.
Anonymous
#61. I Can Forget your past ,
But your Past will not forget you ...
Parvez3786
#62. Regret for a sinful past will remain until we truly believe that for us in Christ that sinful past no longer exists.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#63. Disregard for the past will never do us any good. Without it we cannot know truly who we are.
Syd Moore
#64. You have a choice. Take hold of your future or the past will take it for you.
Pepper D. Basham
#65. The past will continue to be your future if you drag it along with you.
David Bach
#66. Insisting on living in your past will kill your future. Let it go.
Tony Evans
#67. Forgiving yourself means that you give up on your hope that the past will be different.
Edward M. Hallowell
#68. The past has to be seen to be dead; or the past will kill.
V.S. Naipaul
#69. You said we should let go of the past, but I don't know if the past will let go of me.
Kate Kae Myers
#70. Believe me, Michael:
Those who flee from the past will always lose the race.
I know this from experience. When you reach your goal,
Your imagined paradise of success and grandeur,
You will find your past failures waiting there to greet you.
T. S. Eliot
#71. Fighting the wounds of the past will only deepen those wounds. Relaxation is the method that heals the wounds of the mind, not reaction.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#72. By handling each sentimental item and deciding what to discard, you process your past. If you just stow these things away in a drawer or cardboard box, before you realise it, your past will become a weight that holds you back and keeps you from living in the here and now. Pg.116-117
Marie Kondo
#73. The plain people, hereafter as in the past, will continue to make their own language, and the best that grammarians can do is to follow after it, haltingly, and not often with much insight into it.
H.L. Mencken
#74. Ruminating about the past will get you nowhere. So go ahead and learn from the past whatever you can, and then put it behind you. Remember, there is nothing you can do to change it, but you can use its lessons to improve your future.
Abraham J. Twerski
#75. Lessening the misery of the past will lead to a brighter future.
Emma Scott
#77. For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.
Jimmy Carter
#78. I will make wherever I am my home. Or I'll have no home at all. Either is better than living in a past and future where I don't belong
Kiersten White
#79. Under this Government, Britain will not return to the boom and bust of the past.
Gordon Brown
#80. The past is nothing but a weight. It will build inside of you like a stone.
Lauren Oliver
#81. Dont judge me on my past but judge for my present,Love me as I will love you,Care for me as I will care for you' because I am your true friend as you are mine.
Michael Kedzlie
#82. If an immigrant comes here, and they're willing to create jobs, and they're willing to contribute to our economy, we have to make it easier for the kinds of immigrants we want, because that is the past of America; that's our greatness, and that will continue to be our greatness in the future.
Jeff Greene
#83. A war is coming, a battle that will stretch from the prehistoric forests of the ancient past to the cutting-edge research labs of today, all to reveal a true mystery buried deep within our DNA, a mystery that will leave readers changed forever .
James Rollins
#84. If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.
Leon Brown
#85. When we leave our child in nursery school for the first time, it won't be just our child's feelings about separation that we will have to cope with, but our own feelings as well-from our present and from our past, parents are extra vulnerable to new tremors from old earthquakes.
Fred Rogers
#86. Why was Will able to buy this cherished object, this marker of some long-past connection between two people, in an antiques store? At some point there had to be an ending, a death or a breakup, and it got tossed in a box to be given away or sold.
Dana Spiotta
#87. No one can or will ever feel your pain as much as you. Forgive yourself for the past, seize the gift of the present moment.
K.J. Kilton
#88. We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still.
Terry Pratchett
#89. That's so mature. I thought we were past junior high school." - Arelia
"We may be, but boys will never be" - Sabrina
Kira Saito
#90. Newrose, Oldrose, Quean Anne's lace.
Water, river, stone and sun
Wind over hill, under tree.
Past the border none can see.
Climbing into dark for you,
Will you climb in stars for me?
P.124
Ally Condie
#91. I spend a lot of time with the grandchildren. They love it when we sing together. It's fantastic to hear them, and they really can sing. I don't talk to them so much about 'Abba' and the past, but as they get older, they will become more aware.
Agnetha Faltskog
#92. My heart sometimes feels like it will burst for them both. The love has a strange fleeting intangibility about it and seems always to disappear and be converted into the past even before I have properly grasped it.
Ben Hatch
#93. I like to think I would not have approved those methods in the past, but I do not fault those who made the decisions at that time, and I will absolutely defend those who carried out the interrogations within the orders they were given.
Dennis C. Blair
#94. Biblical hope is not wishful thinking or an optimistic outlook; rather, it is a confident expectation based on the certainty of God's Word that as He has anchored us in the past, so He will in the future.
David Wilkerson
#95. You can't change the past. You can't even change the future, in the sense that you can only change the present one moment at a time, stubbornly, until the future unwinds itself into the stories of our lives.
Larry Wall
#96. What the narrator comes to realize is that the past "cannot be described objectively" and that her present will always mediate her past.
Linda Hutcheon
#97. The time will come when every change shall cease,
This quick revolving wheel shall rest in peace:
No summer then shall glow, not winter freeze;
Nothing shall be to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now shall ever last.
Petrarch
#98. Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block.
Annie Dillard
#99. Connie Smith and I have worked a lot of shows together in the past, and it will be nice to do that again
Gene Watson
#100. People who stop learning become the owners of the past. People who still continue to study will be the future owners.
Mario Teguh
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