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

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Waitley, Denis

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 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 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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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

Fredrich

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

Ovid

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

Horace

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

Berger, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

25.

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Proverb, German

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

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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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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 past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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 never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi