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

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

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

Dickson, Paul

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Douglass, Frederick

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

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Ovid

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Fredrich

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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Buffett, Warren

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Saying

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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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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

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

Berger, John

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

Horace

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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.