Motivational Quotes

Past

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

- Douglass, Frederick

Best Quotes about Past

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

La Farge, John

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Einstein, Albert

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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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Berger, John

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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 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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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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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Horace

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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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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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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 does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Ovid