Motivational Quotes

Past

I never look back, I look forward.

- Graf, Steffi

Best Quotes about Past

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Horace

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

La Farge, John

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

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

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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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As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Barzan, Gerald

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, German

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Weil, Simone

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ovid

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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.