Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Past

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Givens, Charles J.

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

La Farge, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Horace

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Welch, John

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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 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