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

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

Campolo, Tony

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Horace

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

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

Saying

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Douglass, Frederick

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

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

La Farge, John

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Proverb, German

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ovid

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

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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 people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Buffett, Warren

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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 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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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