Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Barnard, Charlotte

Best Quotes about Past

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Saying

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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).

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.

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Ovid

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

La Farge, John

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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 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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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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