Motivational Quotes

Past

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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Best Quotes about Past

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Barzan, Gerald

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.

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

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

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

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Weil, Simone

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Ovid

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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 is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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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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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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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Fredrich

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Proverb, German

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Horace

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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 grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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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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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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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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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