Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Auchincloss, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Past

The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Givens, Charles J.

The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

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

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Reagan, Ronald

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Clogged with yesterday's excess, the body drags the mind down with it.

Horace

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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The historian looks backward. In the end he also believes backward.

Fredrich

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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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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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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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I cannot sing the old songs, Or dream those dreams again,

Barnard, Charlotte

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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.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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Yesterday is a canceled check: Forget it. Tomorrow is a promissory note: Don't count on it. Today is ready cash: Use it!

Bliss, Edwin C.

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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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You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.

Stern, Richard Martin

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We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Saying

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Nothing is as new as something which as been long forgotten.

Proverb, German

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We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Guare, John

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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Shakespeare, William

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Wordsworth, William

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

La Farge, John

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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A lot of people go through life like they are rowing a boat. They look at where they have been (the PAST) rather than where they are going (the FUTURE).

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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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The beauty of the past is that it is the past. The beauty of the now is to know it. The beauty of the future is to see where one is going.

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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