Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Rich, Adrienne

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Friel, Brian

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

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

Douglass, Frederick

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

Saying

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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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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May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Dickson, Paul

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

Horace

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

Fredrich

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

Proverb, German

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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

39.

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 does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

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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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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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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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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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