Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Wolfe, Charles

Best Quotes about Past

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

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

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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.

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

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Berger, John

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

La Farge, John

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

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

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

Weil, Simone

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Fredrich

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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Saying

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.