Timeless Inspiration: A Curated Collection of Inspirational Quotes from the Past

"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."

- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."

- Edmund Burke

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

- Rafiki

"Be the change you want to see in the world."

- Gandhi

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

- Buddhist quote

"Learn from the past, look to the future, but live in the present."

- Petra Nemcova

"Don't hold on to the past; it won't help in moving forward. Dare to dream big."

- Rajeev Suri

"For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something."

- Steve Jobs

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

- Denis Waitley

"We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."

- George Washington

"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future."

- Lewis B. Smedes

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."

- George Orwell

"History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided."

- Konrad Adenauer

"A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture is like a tree without roots."

- MARCUS GARVEY

"We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future."

- Corrie Ten Boom

"Study the past, if you would divine the future."

- Confucius

"If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future."

- Winston Churchill

"The hardships that I encountered in the past will help me succeed in the future."

- Philip Emeagwali

"The best way to predict the future is to study the past, or prognosticate."

- Robert Kiyosaki

"Keep all special thoughts and memories for lifetimes to come. Share these keepsakes with others to inspire hope and build from the past, which can bridge to the future."

- Mattie Stepanek

"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future."

- George Bernard Shaw

"When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future."

- Bernard Meltzer

"In every conceivable manner, the family is link to our past, bridge to our future."

- Alex Haley

"When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"The only thing new in the world is the history you don’t know."

- Harry S. Truman

"The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people."

- Kailash Satyarthi

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

- Marcus Aurelius

"The question isn’t who’s going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship."

- Amy March

"A woman is the full circle. Within her is the power to create, nurture and transform."

- Diane Mariechild

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

- John Dalberg-Acton

"The past is never dead. It's not even past."

- William Faulkner

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants."

- Thomas Jefferson

"I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!"

- Patrick Henry

"The power of the people is much stronger than the people in power."

- Wael Ghonim

"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."

- Mark Cuban

"I have not yet begun to fight!"

- John Paul Jones

"History doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes."

- Mark Twain

"History is a race between education and catastrophe."

- H.G. Wells

"The function of freedom is to free someone else."

- Toni Morrison

"The future belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"Well-behaved women seldom make history."

- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

"I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will."

- Charlotte Brontë

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"Opportunities don't happen, you create them."

- Chris Grosser

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Knowledge is power. Information is liberating. Education is the premise of progress, in every society, in every family."

- Kofi Annan

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear."

- Rosa Parks

"Freedom is never given; it is won."

- A. Philip Randolph

"Learning never exhausts the mind."

- Leonardo da Vinci

"History is a vast early warning system."

- Norman Cousins

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

"History is a vast early warning system. #PayAttention #HistoricalPatterns"

- Norman Cousins

"Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere."

- Chinese proverb

"The cost of liberty is less than the price of repression."

- W.E.B. Du Bois

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

- L.P. Hartley

"History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

"The history of the world is the world's court of justice."

- Friedrich Schiller

"One of the best ways to make yourself happy in the present is to recall happy times from the past. Photos are a great memory-prompt, and because we tend to take photos of happy occasions, they weight our memories to the good."

- Gretchen Rubin

"A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past."

- Fidel Castro

"The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."

- Oscar Wilde

"In this bright future you can't forget your past."

- Bob Marley

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

- Percy Bysshe Shelley

"Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about."

- George Allen, Sr.

"Look back, and smile on perils past."

- Walter Scott

"Time is money."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Peace begins with a smile."

- Mother Teresa

"History is the lie commonly agreed upon."

- Voltaire

"Love conquers all."

- Virgil

"All that glitters is not gold."

- William Shakespeare

"Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories."

- Steven Wright

"The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."

"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world."

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

- Unknown