Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Carlyle, Thomas

Best Quotes about Past

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

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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

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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).

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Barzan, Gerald

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Dickson, Paul

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

Weil, Simone

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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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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There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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What is past is prologue.

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

Ovid

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

Fredrich

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

Proverb, German

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

Einstein, Albert

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

La Farge, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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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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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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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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 past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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 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.

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

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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