Motivational Quotes

Past

What is past is prologue.

- Shakespeare, William

Best Quotes about Past

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

Proverb, German

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Barnard, Charlotte

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

La Farge, John

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Berger, John

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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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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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We do NOT know the past in chronological sequence. It may be convenient to lay it out anesthetized on the table with dates pasted on here and there, but what we know we know by ripples and spirals eddying out from us and from our own time.

Pound, Ezra

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Eliot, T. S.

30.

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

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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 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 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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Weil, Simone

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

Givens, Charles J.

48.

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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