Motivational Quotes

Past

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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Best Quotes about Past

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

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.

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

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

Berger, John

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

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

Proverb, German

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Einstein, Albert

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Givens, Charles J.

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

La Farge, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Saying

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Fredrich

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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

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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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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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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