Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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).

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Einstein, Albert

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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 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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Proverb, German

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

Saying

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dickson, Paul

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Shakespeare, William

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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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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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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Horace

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

Eliot, T. S.