Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Martial, Marcus Valerius

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Horace

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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.

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

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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Berger, John

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

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Saying

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

28.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Fredrich

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth