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

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Campolo, Tony

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

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Weil, Simone

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Saying

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Berger, John

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

Horace

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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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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 past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Fredrich

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

Ovid

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buffett, Warren

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter