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

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

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Proverb, German

Wordsworth, William

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

La Farge, John

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

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

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Saying

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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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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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 people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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