Motivational Quotes

Past

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Past

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Guare, John

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Fredrich

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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.

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

Ovid

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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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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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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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Weil, Simone

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

Buffett, Warren

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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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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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Horace

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