Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Nietzsche, Friedrich

Best Quotes about Past

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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

Saying

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

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

Horace

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

La Farge, John

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Guare, John

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

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

Proverb, German