Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Barnard, Charlotte

Best Quotes about Past

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

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Fredrich

To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

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

Horace

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

Eliot, T. S.

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Dickson, Paul

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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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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

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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?