Motivational Quotes

Past

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

- Ball, George W.

Best Quotes about Past

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

Welch, John

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).

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

Saying

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

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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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 does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fredrich

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

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

Horace

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

Berger, John

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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

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

La Farge, John

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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 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