Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

Ovid

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Berger, John

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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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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Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Rich, Adrienne

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Eliot, T. S.

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Horace

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

Saying

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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 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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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

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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 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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

La Farge, John