Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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.

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

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

Guare, John

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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

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

Fredrich

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

La Farge, John

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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 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 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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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 grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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

Proverb, German

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

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Saying

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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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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 people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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

Horace

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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