Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Fredrich

Best Quotes about Past

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

Horace

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Fredrich

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

Buffett, Warren

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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Saying

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

Proverb, German

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Berger, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Ovid

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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 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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.