Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Barzan, Gerald

Best Quotes about Past

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

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Guare, John

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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).

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.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Rich, Adrienne

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Buffett, Warren

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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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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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 as new as something which as been long forgotten.

Proverb, German

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Givens, Charles J.

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Weil, Simone

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Horace

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Fredrich

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

Saying

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

Carlyle, Thomas