Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Past

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

Berger, John

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Fredrich

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

Guare, John

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Ovid

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

Shakespeare, William

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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

Steiner, George

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

La Farge, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Saying

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

Eliot, T. S.

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Proverb, German

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Schuller, Robert H.