Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Past

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Saying

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

Guare, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Einstein, Albert

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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 past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Proverb, German

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

Fredrich

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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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The investor of today does not profit from yesterday's growth.

Buffett, Warren

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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.

Osborne, John

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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 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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

La Farge, John

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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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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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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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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