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

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

Campolo, Tony

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

Fredrich

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

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

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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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Hewison, Robert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Saying

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Proverb, German

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

Berger, John

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Horace

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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Weil, Simone

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

Syrus, Publilius

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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