Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Sidney, Sir Philip

Best Quotes about Past

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Berger, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Welch, John

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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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 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

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

Saying

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Horace

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Shakespeare, William

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Fredrich

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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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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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