Motivational Quotes

Past

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

- Douglass, Frederick

Best Quotes about Past

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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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 past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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The next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Horace

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

Proverb, German

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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

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

Berger, John

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.