Motivational Quotes

Past

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

- Ade, George

Best Quotes about Past

If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Pound, Ezra

Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Campolo, Tony

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Rich, Adrienne

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The true picture of the past flits by. The past can be seized only as an image which flashes up at the instant when it can be recognized and is never seen again.

Benjamin, Walter

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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.

Webb, Mary

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The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

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If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

Hewison, Robert

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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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Don't brood on the past, but don't forget it either.

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Waitley, Denis

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If the past cannot teach the present and the father cannot teach the son, then history need not have bothered to go on, and the world has wasted a great deal of time.

Hoban, Russell

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Sandburg, Carl

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Living in the past has one thing going for it; it's cheaper!

Saying

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Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.

Bingham, Caleb

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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Moon, William Least Heat

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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

Eliot, T. S.

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If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way

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If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Brown, Les

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Wolfe, Charles

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Who so desireth to know what will be hereafter, let him think of what is past, for the world hath ever been in a circular revolution; whatsoever is now, was heretofore; and things past or present, are no other than such as shall be again: Redit orbis in orbem.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Things without remedy, should be without regard; what is done, is done.

Shakespeare, William

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The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

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If you're still hanging onto a dead dream of yesterday, laying flowers on its grave by the hour, you cannot be planting the seeds for a new dream to grow today.

Chapman, Joyce

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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Buffett, Warren

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The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.

La Farge, John

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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The moments of the past do not remain still; they retain in our memory the motion which drew them towards the future, towards a future which has itself become the past, and draw us on in their train.

Proust, Marcel

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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Schuller, Robert H.

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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

Steiner, George

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

Collins, Marva

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We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Douglass, Frederick

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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