Motivational Quotes

Past

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Past

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

Friel, Brian

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Douglass, Frederick

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).

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

Dickson, Paul

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Weil, Simone

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

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

La Farge, John

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Ovid

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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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