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

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).

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

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.

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

Welch, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Proverb, German

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Saying

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Rich, Adrienne

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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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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 must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it

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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buffett, Warren

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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