Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

1.

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

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

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

La Farge, John

5.

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

6.

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

Horace

7.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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

9.

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

10.

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

Barzan, Gerald

11.

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

12.

The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

13.

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

Welch, John

14.

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

16.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

17.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

18.

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

Buffett, Warren

19.

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

Proverb, German

20.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

23.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

24.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

25.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

26.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

27.

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

31.

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

32.

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

33.

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

34.

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

Givens, Charles J.

35.

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

36.

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

Fredrich

37.

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.

38.

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

Syrus, Publilius

39.

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

Weil, Simone

40.

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

41.

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

42.

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

Wolfe, Charles

43.

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.

44.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

45.

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

46.

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

Shakespeare, William

47.

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

48.

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

49.

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

50.

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern