Motivational Quotes

Past

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about 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

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

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

Horace

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

La Farge, John

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

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

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

Weil, Simone

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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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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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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Proverb, German

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

Berger, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Einstein, Albert

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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 past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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

Ovid

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob