Past Quotes

With a good perspective of history, we can have a better understanding of the past and present, and thus a clear vision of the future.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

Living in the past stops you from moving forward, and living in the future stops you from living in the moment.

Islam expect every Muslim to do this duty, and if we realise our responsibility time will come soon when we shall justify ourselves worthy of a glorious past.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today’s leaders must be partners with their people. They no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.

Time really flies, feels like yesterday when I met you in July.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

When I want to understand what is happening today or try to decide what will happen tomorrow, I look back.