Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Proverb, German

Best Quotes about Past

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

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 never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Einstein, Albert

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

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Guare, John

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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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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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fredrich

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

La Farge, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Weil, Simone

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

Horace

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

Saying

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

Rich, Adrienne