Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Dickson, Paul

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).

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

La Farge, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Ovid

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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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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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 past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Sontag, Susan

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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 should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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 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 grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Fredrich

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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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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

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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 does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, German

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

Einstein, Albert