Motivational Quotes

Past

Look back, and smile at perils past.

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Past

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Friel, Brian

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Saying

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Welch, John

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Horace

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Einstein, Albert

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

La Farge, John

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Berger, John

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

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Raddal, Thomas H.