Motivational Quotes

Past

Look back, and smile at perils past.

- Scott, Sir Walter

Best Quotes about Past

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

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

Friel, Brian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Welch, John

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

La Farge, John

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Horace

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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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'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

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Fredrich

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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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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Berger, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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The past is only the present become invisible and mute; and because it is invisible and mute, its memorized glances and its murmurs are infinitely precious. We are tomorrow's past.

Webb, Mary

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William