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

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Eliot, T. S.

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Proverb, German

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

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Guare, John

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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

Horace

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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 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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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 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 does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Berger, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Weil, Simone

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

Fredrich

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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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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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).