Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Berger, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Saying

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, German

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

33.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Wolfe, Charles

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John