Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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).

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

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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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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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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

La Farge, John

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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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

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

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

Horace

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Fredrich

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

Berger, John

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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Weil, Simone

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The past does not equal the future.