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 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.

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

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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

La Farge, John

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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Fredrich

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

25.

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Horace

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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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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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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

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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Weil, Simone

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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 must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it