Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Past

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

Those who do remember it will find new ways to screw it up.

Wolfe, Charles

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

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.

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Waitley, Denis

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

La Farge, John

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fredrich

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

Horace

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

28.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Weil, Simone

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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).

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Proverb, German

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Reagan, Ronald

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If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

Hewison, Robert

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim