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

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

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

Dickson, Paul

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Barzan, Gerald

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

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To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

Givens, Charles J.

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

La Farge, John

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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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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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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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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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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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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Reagan, Ronald

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Saying

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Wordsworth, William

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Horace

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Berger, John

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

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The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

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

Proverb, German

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb