Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

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

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

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

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

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fredrich

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Campolo, Tony

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, 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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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 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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, 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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Weil, Simone

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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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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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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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

La Farge, John

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

Dickson, Paul

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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