Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Douglass, Frederick

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

La Farge, John

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

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

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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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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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Buffett, Warren

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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 past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Ovid

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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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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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 grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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

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

Fredrich

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

Eliot, T. S.

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Shakespeare, William

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Hewison, Robert

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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter