Motivational Quotes

Past

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.

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

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Saying

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

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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

11.

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

12.

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

14.

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.

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

La Farge, 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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb, German

28.

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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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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Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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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 should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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

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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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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Schuller, Robert H.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Fredrich

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Berger, John

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John