Motivational Quotes

Past

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

- Ball, George W.

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Guare, John

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Ovid

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

La Farge, John

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

Buffett, Warren

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Dickson, Paul