History Quotes

Study the past, if you would divine the future.

One faces the future with ones past.

Don't ruin the present with the ruined past.

You cannot find yourself by going into the past. You can find yourself by coming into the present.

Let us revere, let us worship, but erect and open-eyed, the highest, not the lowest; the future, not the past!

You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

Nothing is predestined: The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.

By living deeply in the present moment we can understand the past better and we can prepare for a better future.

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

History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.

Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. And today? Today is a gift. That is why we call it the present.

We are not animals. We are not a product of what has happened to us in our past. We have the power of choice.

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

It can't be spring if your heart is filled with past failures.

No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again.

Life a culmination of the past, an awareness of the present, an indication of the future beyond knowledge, the quality that gives a touch of divinity…

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.

Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

I love my past. I love my present. Im not ashamed of what Ive had, and Im not sad because I have it no longer.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Using the power of decision gives you the capacity to get past any excuse to change any and every part of your life in an instant.

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.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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

Bengal has no history of her own; that history must be written by Bengalis themselves.