Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Fredrich

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

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Horace

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, 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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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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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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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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 past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, German

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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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