Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

Best Quotes about Past

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Shakespeare, William

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.

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

Dickson, Paul

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

La Farge, John

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

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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

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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 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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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Proverb, German

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Fredrich

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Horace

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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).