Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Barnard, Charlotte

Best Quotes about Past

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 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

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

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

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

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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Weil, Simone

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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.

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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 past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Horace

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Shakespeare, William

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Saying

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

Proverb, German

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

Fredrich

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

Welch, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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