Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Saying

Best Quotes about Past

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Douglass, Frederick

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

Proverb, German

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Waitley, Denis

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Shakespeare, William

15.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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

30.

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Berger, John

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

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The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

La Farge, John

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Weil, Simone

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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