Motivational Quotes

Past

Look back, and smile at perils past.

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about 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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Horace

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

Fredrich

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Welch, John

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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Buffett, Warren

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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 past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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 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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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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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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Saying

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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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).

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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