Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Douglass, Frederick

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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.

Sandburg, Carl

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

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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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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Fredrich

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Barzan, Gerald

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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 should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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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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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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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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Einstein, Albert

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

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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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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 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