Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Auchincloss, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Past

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Berger, John

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

Douglass, Frederick

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

Proverb, German

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Dickson, Paul

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, 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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

La Farge, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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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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 to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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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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Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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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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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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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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 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 past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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

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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