Motivational Quotes

Past

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

- Campolo, Tony

Best Quotes about Past

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).

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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.

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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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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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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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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I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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

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

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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 grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ovid

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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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