Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

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

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Welch, John

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

Horace

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

La Farge, John

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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 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 never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Ovid

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Berger, John

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

Friel, Brian

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

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We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind's door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.

Didion, Joan

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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