Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Past

1.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

2.

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.

3.

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

4.

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

5.

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

6.

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Waitley, Denis

7.

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

Fredrich

8.

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

9.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

11.

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Horace

15.

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

16.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

17.

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

18.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

19.

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

20.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

21.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

22.

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

Guare, John

23.

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

Shakespeare, William

24.

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.

25.

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

Saying

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

La Farge, John

29.

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Syrus, Publilius

33.

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

34.

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

35.

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

36.

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

Eliot, T. S.

37.

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Barzan, Gerald

41.

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

Givens, Charles J.

42.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

43.

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

Proverb, German

44.

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

Ovid

45.

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.

46.

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

Dickson, Paul

47.

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

Rich, Adrienne

48.

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

Buffett, Warren

49.

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

50.

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

Campolo, Tony