Motivational Quotes

Past

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Proverb, German

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

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

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

La Farge, John

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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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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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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Weil, Simone

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

Einstein, Albert

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Saying

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Fredrich

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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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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Ovid