Motivational Quotes

Past

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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Best Quotes about Past

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Dickson, Paul

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Guare, John

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Sandburg, Carl

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Weil, Simone

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Berger, John

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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

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

Shakespeare, William

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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 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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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 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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French