Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

Collins, Marva

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

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

Wordsworth, William

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

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

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Weil, Simone

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

Berger, John

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

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Saying

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

La Farge, John

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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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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Rich, Adrienne

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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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

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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 does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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.