Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

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

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

La Farge, John

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Fredrich

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Horace

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Barnard, Charlotte