A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others

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.

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.

I can feel guilty about the past, apprehensive about the future, but only in the present can I act. The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.

Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.

Sometimes opportunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.

Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

The future for me is already a thing of the past -You were my first love and you will be my last

The lessons of the past are ignored and obliterated in a contemporary antagonism known as the generation gap.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.

The past is the best prophet of the future.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest men of past centuries.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, nor to worry about the future, but to live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Unfortunately, the clock is ticking, the hours are going by. The past increases, the future recedes. Possibilities decreasing, regrets mounting.

We are not held back by the love we didn't receive in the past, but by the love we're not extending in the present.