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

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

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

Saying

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

Rich, Adrienne

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ovid

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

Fredrich

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Horace

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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

Berger, John

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

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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

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

Proverb, German

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Buffett, Warren

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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.