Motivational Quotes

Past

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

- Ball, George W.

Best Quotes about Past

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

Welch, John

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

Fredrich

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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 all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Ovid

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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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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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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.