Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

Campolo, Tony

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

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

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

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

Friel, Brian

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

Weil, Simone

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Syrus, Publilius

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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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