Motivational Quotes

Past

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Past

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

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

Weil, Simone

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

Mr. Meant-to has a friend, his name is Didn't-Do. Have you met them? They live together in a house called Never-Win. And I am told that it is haunted by the Ghost of Might-have-Been.

Collins, Marva

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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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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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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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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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 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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Proverb, German

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

La Farge, John

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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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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 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