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

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).

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Campolo, Tony

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.

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

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

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

Ovid

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Saying

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

Dickson, Paul

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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 past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.