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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Best Quotes about Past

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

Waitley, Denis

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.

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

Proverb, German

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

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

La Farge, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Fredrich

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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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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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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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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Weil, Simone

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Givens, Charles J.

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Reagan, Ronald

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