Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Douglass, Frederick

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

La Farge, John

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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Givens, Charles J.

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Proverb, German

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

Horace

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Fredrich

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

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William