Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

Shakespeare, William

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

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.

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.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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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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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

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Dickson, Paul

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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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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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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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 should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Weil, Simone

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

La Farge, John

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

Berger, John

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

Horace

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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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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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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 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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, German

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The Past -- the dark unfathomed retrospect! The teeming gulf --the sleepers and the shadows! The past! the infinite greatness of the past! For what is the present after all but a growth out of the past?

Whitman, Walt

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

Wolfe, Charles

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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