Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Past

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

The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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

Guare, John

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wolfe, Charles

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).

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.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ovid

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

Horace

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Fredrich

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

Proverb, German

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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 one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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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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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Berger, John

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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