Past Lessons Quotes

Each day is the scholar of yesterday.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

There have been failures in the past, and I know there will be in future as well. But I have learnt from them.

That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.

Experience is the pocket-compass that few think of consulting until they have lost their way.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce "that great past to a trouble of fools." For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future.

Look to the past and remember no empire rises that sooner or later won't fall.

The American government must finally learn lessons from the past.

The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future.

We just have to move forward and learn from past experiences.

Commemorating the present and looking forward to a more promising future has always depended on learning from the past..

I'm focused on my future. I'm ignoring my past, apart from the bits that I draw from to help me focus on my future.

The careful study of the past enlarges our foresight in contemporary affairs and affords to citizens and to monarchs lessons of incitement or warning in the ordering of public policy

We all want to be honest and draw lessons from the past, the WHO is the only international organization that has universal political legitimacy on global health issues. This is why it's so important to render its structures more efficient.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience.

We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future.

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

Learn from the things that have been done already, for this is the best way of learning.

The past is something for you to learn from and the future is something that you hope is going to happen, but I'm always speaking to my actual fans in present tense.

History repeats itself because nobody listens the first time.