“We don't have to be victims of our past, that we can let go of our bitterness, and that all of us can achieve greatness.” PastAchieveGreatnessLetting GoVictimBitternessOur PastAchieve Greatness Author:Nelson Mandela
“I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.” KnowsDoneChristianPastChristianityAtheismGreatnessPositive AtheismVenture Book:Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays Source: Reflections on the Death of a Porcupine and Other Essays
“Great art does not break with the past. It breaks with the present by emulating the best of the past.” DoeArtPastBreakGreatnessGreat Art Author:Walter Darby Bannard
“The age which we live in is not suited to idle complacency or to pleasant dreams of past greatness.” DreamAgePastGreatnessPleasantIdleComplacencyPleasant Dreams Author:Vincent Massey
“Stop watering things that were never meant to grow in your life. Water what works, what's good, what's right. Stop playing around with those dead bones and stuff you can't fix, its over...leave it alone! You're coming into a season of greatness. If you water what's alive and divine, you will see harvest like you've never seen before. Stop wasting water on dead issues, dead relationships, dead people, a dead past. No matter how much you water concrete, you can't grow a garden.” PeopleIfsMatterPastGrowsStuffWaterIssuesAliveGreatnessDivineLike YouGardenSeasonsBonesConcreteHarvestDead PeoplePlaying Around Author:T. D. Jakes
“You should never fall in love with your own press clippings, because it is very much the nature of the beast that the same journalists who build you up between Monday and Friday tear you down for weekend fun...My family's habit of living in the past seems to me pathological, even dangerous. If all greatness lies in the past, what is the point of the future?” IfsShouldSeemsPastLyingFallFunLove YouDangerousGreatnessTearsHabitMy FamilyPressesFalling In LoveJournalistBeastWeekendMondayFridayLiving In The PastNever Fall In Love Author:Stephen L. Carter
“Research is the live heart of the scientific life ... Greatness of position, respect for past accomplishments, the Nobel Prize itself -- none of these can compensate for the loss of vitality only research provides.” HeartPastLossPositionGreatnessResearchAccomplishmentPrizeVitalityNobelNobel Prize Book:Women in Science: Then and Now Source: Women in Science: Then and Now