Mattie Stepanek Quotes

The past is a source of knowledge, and the future is a source of hope. Love of the past implies faith in the future.

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.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

While we can remember the past, we cannot write the future. Only our children, the future of our community, can do that.

We need to open up the future. We also need to keep everything valuable from the past.

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

We are all part of a tradition, at least we depend on the past.

The future has a lot to do with the past.

I want to make sure people are connected with the future as well as the past.

We celebrate the past to awaken the future.

Take time to gather up the past so that you will be able to draw from your experience and invest them in the future.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

I've always been aware that to be named after someone from the past carries with it all kinds of bittersweetness.

My inspiration is love and history.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

A whole stack of memories never equal one little hope.

Memories of our lives, of our works and our deeds will continue in others.

It is my firm belief that I have a link with the past and a responsibility to the future. I cannot give up. I cannot despair. There's a whole future, generations to come. I have to keep trying.

We, who are the living, possess the past. Tomorrow is for our martyrs.

The power of noble deeds is to be preserved and passed on to the future.

We are tomorrow's past.

We cannot afford to neglect some recognition of our past, even though we gaze into the future.

History takes time... History makes memory.

The past is a present force.