Motivational Quotes

Past

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Sandburg, Carl

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

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Saying

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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

Wordsworth, William

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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Buffett, Warren

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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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

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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