Motivational Quotes

Past

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

- Ball, George W.

Best Quotes about Past

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Horace

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb, German

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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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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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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 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, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

La Farge, John

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

Fredrich

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim