Motivational Quotes

Past

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Past

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Guare, John

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

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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Proverb, German

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

La Farge, John

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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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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Weil, Simone

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

Fredrich

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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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 good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

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

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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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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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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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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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