Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Past

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

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

La Farge, John

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

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

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

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.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Buffett, Warren

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Proverb, German

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Berger, John

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

Wolfe, Charles

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Saying

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

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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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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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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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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