Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

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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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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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 past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Saying

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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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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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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

La Farge, John

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Fredrich

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