Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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

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

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

Berger, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb, German

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Buffett, Warren

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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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

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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

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

Horace

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

La Farge, John

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Dickson, Paul

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It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Wright, Charles

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Eliot, T. S.