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

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

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

Fredrich

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

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

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

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

Guare, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Whitman, Walt

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Saying

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Proverb, German

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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Weil, Simone

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

La Farge, John

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

Dickson, Paul

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

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

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

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Givens, Charles J.

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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