Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Berger, John

Best Quotes about Past

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

Berger, John

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

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

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

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Proverb, German

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

Horace

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Ovid

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Weil, Simone

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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 past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

La Farge, John

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Saying

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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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As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Barzan, Gerald

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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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