Motivational Quotes

Past

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

- Osborne, John

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

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

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

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

Berger, John

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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Horace

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb, German

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wolfe, Charles

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

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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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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Ovid

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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The past, though it cannot be relived, can always be repaired.

La Farge, John

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Weil, Simone

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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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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