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

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

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

Berger, John

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

Guare, John

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Waitley, Denis

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Proverb, German

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Givens, Charles J.

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

10.

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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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 past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

18.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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

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

Saying

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

25.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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

31.

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

32.

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

Dickson, Paul

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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Weil, Simone

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Ovid

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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.

48.

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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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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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