Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- La Farge, John

Best Quotes about Past

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Waitley, Denis

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

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

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Horace

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

Fredrich

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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

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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 all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Givens, Charles J.

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Saying

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

Berger, John

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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