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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Guare, John

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

Fredrich

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Weil, Simone

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

La Farge, John

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The next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wolfe, Charles

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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Whitman, Walt

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

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

Campolo, Tony

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

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

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

Horace

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There is a way to look at the past. Don't hide from it. It will not catch you -- if you don't repeat it.

Bailey, Pearl

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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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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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It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

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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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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Einstein, Albert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Sontag, Susan

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

Buffett, Warren

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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.