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

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Horace

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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.

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

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

Dickson, Paul

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

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

Berger, John

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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 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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Saying

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

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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'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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

La Farge, John

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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 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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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Fredrich

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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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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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