Past Present And Future Quotes

• Family faces are magic mirrors. Looking at people who belong to us, we see the past, present and future.

  Gail Buckley

  Family, Past, Mirrors

  "Books of the Times" by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, www.nytimes.com. 1986.

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• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.517, Best Books on

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it without a sense of ironic futility.

  Errol Morris

  Past, Infancy Is, History

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• Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.

  George Orwell

  Dream, Time, Peace

  Nineteen Eighty-Four pt. 1, ch. 3 (1949) See Orwell 19

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today.

  Albert Einstein

  Life, New Year, Hope

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• The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

  Abraham Lincoln (1992). “The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln”, Plume

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• Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Fear, Future, Adventure

  "Meditations" by Marcus Aurelius, Book VII, (8), (c. 161 - 180 AD).

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• The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Twitter post from Jan 30, 2017

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• Learn From Yesterday, Live for Today, hope for tomorrow.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Cute, Positive, Leadership

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• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Past, Slaughterhouse Five, Chaos

  Harold Bloom, Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (2009). “Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five”, p.8, Infobase Publishing

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• Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Let the dead Past bury its dead!

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  New Year, Regret, Moving

  "A Psalm of Life" st. 6 (1838)

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• The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time. The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

  Dean Acheson

  Future, Live In The Moment, One Day

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• The past does not equal the future.

  Tony Robbins

  Inspirational, Humorous, Future

  Twitter post from Jun 30, 2009

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• The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

  Oscar Wilde

  Past, Charm, Past Present Future

  Oscar Wilde, Moira Muldoon (2005). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• Those who don't remember the past are condemned to repeat the eleventh grade.

  James W. Loewen

  Past, Infancy Is, History

  James W. Loewen (2013). “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong”, p.16, The New Press

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• The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only more expensive.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Future, Science, Past

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• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

  Paul Valery

  Time, Future, Trouble

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

  Robert Nathan

  Memories, Distance, Past

  Robert Nathan (1967). “So Love Returns”

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• Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Past, Looks, One Tree Hill Love

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.

  Eugene O'Neill

  Time, Memories, Future

  Bhagwat S. Goyal, Eugene O'Neill (1975). “The Strategy of Survival: Human Significance of O'Neill's Plays”, Ghaziabad : Vimal Prakashan

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• The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

  L.P. Hartley

  Country, Memories, Future

  "The Go-Between". Book by L.P. Hartley, 1953.

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• When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

  Bonnie McFarlane

  Break Up, Encouraging, Broken Heart

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• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.188, Princeton University Press

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