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

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

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

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

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Saying

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Weil, Simone

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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Douglass, Frederick

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Horace

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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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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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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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While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Reagan, Ronald

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

Ovid

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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 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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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Dickson, Paul

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Proverb, German