In this bright future you can't forget your past.
~ Bob Marley
Study the past, if you would divine the future.
~ Confucius
Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
~ Maya Angelou
The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.
~ Simon Sinek
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
~ Stephen Hawking
I am not interested in the past, except as the road to the future.
~ Gianni Versace
Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.
~ Marcus Aurelius
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
~ Alexis De Tocqueville
The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
~ Oscar Wilde
The future influences the present just as much as the past.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go.
~ Fred Rogers
I'm not good at future planning. I don't plan at all. I don't know what I'm doing tomorrow. I don't have a day planner and I don't have a diary. I completely live in the now, not in the past, not in the future.
~ Heath Ledger
The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now.
~ Bill Cosby
For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
~ Thor Heyerdahl
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
America is false to the past, false to the present, and solemnly binds herself to be false to the future.
~ Frederick Douglass
Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
~ Jean De La Bruyère
Adolescence represents an inner emotional upheaval, a struggle between the eternal human wish to cling to the past and the equally powerful wish to get on with the future.
~ Louise J. Kaplan
All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome.
~ George Orwell
Living in the moment, thinking about the future, and staying connected to the past: That's what makes me feel whole.
~ Hugh Hefner
Right now people are interested in genetic engineering to help the human race. That's a noble cause, and that's where we should be heading. But once we get past that - once we understand what genetic diseases we can deal with - when we start thinking about the future, there's an opportunity to create some new life-forms.
~ Jack Horner
Humans are the only creatures with the ability to dive deep in the sea, fly high in the sky, send instant messages around the globe, reflect on the past, assess the present and imagine the future.
~ Sylvia Earle
I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.
~ Patrick Henry
The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
~ Henri Nouwen
I don't carry the burden of the past or the madness of the future. I live in the present.
~ Narendra Modi
We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.
I am not like a pebble on the beach - a grain of sand on the seashore or just one of millions of human beings past, present and future. No, I am a unique human being loved by God as if I were an only child - the only fruit of his creative powers.
~ Mother Angelica
There is an opportunity for us to renew ourselves. There's an opportunity for us to leave the past behind and present something different for the future.
~ Jay Weatherill
The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.
~ Albert Einstein
Let them look to the past, but let them also look to the future; let them look to the land of their ancestors, but let them look also to the land of their children.
~ Wilfrid Laurier
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
~ Stan Musial
The past, the present and the future are really one: they are today.
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Partition is bad. But whatever is past is past. We have only to look to the future.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Grounded in the natural philosophy of the Middle Ages, alchemy formed a bridge: on the one hand into the past, to Gnosticism, and on the other into the future, to the modern psychology of the unconscious.
~ Carl Jung
The past is an old armchair in the attic, the present an ominous ticking sound, and the future is anybody's guess.
~ James Thurber
What you're doing now, or have done in the past, need not determine what you can do next and in the future.
~ Ken Robinson
It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.
~ Dan Quayle
Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present.
~ Petra Nemcova
The mistakes and unresolved difficulties of the past in mathematics have always been the opportunities of its future.
~ E. T. Bell
