Motivational Quotes

Past

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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Best Quotes about Past

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Guare, John

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Saying

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Weil, Simone

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Ovid

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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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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Horace

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

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Berger, John

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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