Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Dickson, Paul

Best Quotes about Past

If you are carrying strong feelings about something that happened in your past, they may hinder your ability to live in the present.

Brown, Les

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

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Ovid

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

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Fredrich

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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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 grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Rich, Adrienne

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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.