Motivational Quotes

Past

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

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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

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

Fredrich

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

Proverb, German

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Sontag, Susan

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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 grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Saying

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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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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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

La Farge, John

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Horace

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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