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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Weil, Simone

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

Givens, Charles J.

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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Bachelard, Gaston

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, German

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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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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 should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Barzan, Gerald

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Welch, John

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

Horace

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Saying

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

Fredrich

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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