Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Saying

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

La Farge, John

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Rich, Adrienne

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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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