Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Fredrich

Best Quotes about Past

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

Einstein, Albert

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Guare, John

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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).

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

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

Saying

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

La Farge, John

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

Weil, Simone

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Proverb, German

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dickson, Paul

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Fredrich

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Syrus, Publilius

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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