Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Past

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

La Farge, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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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

11.

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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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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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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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

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

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

Saying

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Proverb, German

29.

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

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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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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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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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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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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Pound, Ezra

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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