Motivational Quotes

Past

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Past

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Proverb, German

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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.

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Horace

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Fredrich

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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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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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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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Weil, Simone

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

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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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Ovid

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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

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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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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 grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Buffett, Warren