Motivational Quotes

Past

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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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).

Every journey into the past is complicated by delusions, false memories, false namings of real events.

Rich, Adrienne

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

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

Saying

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

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

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

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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 good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

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

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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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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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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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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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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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

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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Fredrich

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Proverb, German

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Shakespeare, William

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

La Farge, John

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Berger, John

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

Weil, Simone

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

Horace

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Buffett, Warren

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