Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

Berger, John

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

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

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

Horace

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.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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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What is past is prologue.

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

La Farge, John

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

Saying

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

Weil, Simone

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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