Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Givens, Charles J.

Best Quotes about Past

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

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

Friel, Brian

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

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Campolo, Tony

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

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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 people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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

Fredrich

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

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

Berger, John

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Weil, Simone

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Ovid

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

Givens, Charles J.