Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Saying

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

Horace

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

Proverb, German

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.

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

14.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Moon, William Least Heat

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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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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Reagan, Ronald

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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