Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Horace

Best Quotes about Past

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Campolo, Tony

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

Wolfe, Charles

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

10.

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

11.

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

Shakespeare, William

12.

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Guare, John

13.

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

14.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

15.

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

Eliot, T. S.

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

21.

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

Ovid

22.

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

23.

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.

24.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

25.

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

Barzan, Gerald

26.

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

Saying

27.

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

Horace

28.

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

29.

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

30.

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

31.

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

Fredrich

32.

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

33.

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

34.

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Proverb, German

36.

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

37.

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

38.

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

39.

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

Rich, Adrienne

40.

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

46.

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

47.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

48.

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

49.

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

Syrus, Publilius

50.

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

Buffett, Warren