Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Guare, John

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

Eliot, T. S.

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.

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Farge, John

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Berger, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Fredrich

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

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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Sandburg, Carl

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Waitley, Denis

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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Saying

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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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