Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Wolfe, Charles

Best Quotes about Past

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

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

Einstein, Albert

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.

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

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Buffett, Warren

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

La Farge, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Saying

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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The next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Fredrich

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Horace

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