Motivational Quotes

Past

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Guare, John

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Campolo, Tony

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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 -- 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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

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

Ovid

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Berger, John

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

La Farge, John

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

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As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Barzan, Gerald

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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 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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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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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.