Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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).

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

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

Welch, John

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

Berger, John

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

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

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

La Farge, John

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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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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

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The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

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

Proverb, German

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Saying

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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

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

Ovid

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

Weil, Simone