Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Berger, John

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

Welch, John

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

La Farge, John

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

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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 distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Einstein, Albert

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Weil, Simone

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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Saying

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Ovid

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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fredrich

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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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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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