Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Schuller, Robert H.

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

The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

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

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

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Reagan, Ronald

It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled the past, and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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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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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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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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Guare, John

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

Saying

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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Horace

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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Fredrich

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Rich, Adrienne

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects --making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing.

Sontag, Susan

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

Berger, John

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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.