Top 60 Past Quotes
Do you need some inspiration to let go of the past? We're here to help.
60 Past Quotes
Do you feel that you are living stuck in the past? Do you need to put some memories aside? We're here to help change your perspective. You should try to live in the present, let go of the past and move on.
Do you need some motivational and inspirational past quotes to encourage you to move forward? Read the following list of quotes that we have compiled for you.
1"The past is never where you think you left it."
2“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present.”
3“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
4“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
5“Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.”
6“We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.”
7“My past is everything I failed to be.”
8“The past can't hurt you anymore, not unless you let it.”
9“Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past.”
10"Keep looking up! I learn from the past, dream about the future and look up. There's nothing like a beautiful sunset to end a healthy day."
11“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future.”
12“Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories.”
13“The distinction between the past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.”
14"Your past is always your past. Even if you forget it, it remembers you."
15"Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future."
16"I am not someone who is ashamed of my past. I'm actually really proud. I know I made a lot of mistakes, but they, in turn, were my life lessons."
17"Just because the past taps you on the shoulders, doesn't mean you have to look back."
18"Your past doesn't define who you are. It just gives you the starting point for who you're going to be."
19"Don't let yesterday use up too much of today."
20"The past is not a package one can lay away."
21"The one charm of the past is that it is the past."
22"The past is always judged by the present."
23“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.”
24“What’s done is done.”
25“The past was always there, lived inside of you, and it helped to make you who you were. But it had to be placed in perspective. The past could not dominate the future.”
26"The past explains how I got here, but the future is up to me - and I love to live life at full throttle."
27"Consider the past and you shall know the future."
28"The past is our definition. We may strive, with good reason, to escape it, or to escape what is bad in it, but we will escape it only by adding something better to it."
29"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."
30"It's okay to look back at your past. Just don't stare."
31“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
32“People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.”
33“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
34“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”
35“Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.”
36“Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.”
37"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."
38“I use memories, but I will not allow memories to use me.”
39“Only by acceptance of the past can you alter it.”
40”Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.”
41“It’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.”
42“The past has no power over the present moment.”
43“Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future.”
44“Its more fun to think of the future than dwell on the past.”
45"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
46"They say I'm old-fashioned, and live in the past, but sometimes I think progress progresses too fast!"
47"They say miracles are past."
48"Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present, and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."
49"Memory is a snare, pure and simple; it alters, it subtly rearranges the past to fit the present."
50“Our past may explain why we're suffering but we must not use it as an excuse to stay in bondage.”
51“Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future.”
52"I don't care too much what happened in the past. I prefer to focus on what is coming next and I am really looking forward to it."
53"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
54"The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future."
55"I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it."
56"The past should be a springboard, not a hammock."
57"The past is the only dead thing that smells sweet."
58"Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future."
59"What is past is prologue."
60"May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future."
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