Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Past

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

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

Einstein, Albert

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

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

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

Fredrich

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Farge, John

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Saying

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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 past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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