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

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

La Farge, John

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Saying

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Reagan, Ronald

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