Motivational Quotes

Past

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

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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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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.

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

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Waitley, Denis

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

La Farge, John

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

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Dickson, Paul

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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.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Horace

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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.

29.

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

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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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

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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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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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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 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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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Berger, John