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

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Douglass, Frederick

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.

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

Proverb, German

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

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

Wolfe, Charles

We live in a world where amnesia is the most wished-for state. When did history become a bad word?

Guare, John

The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

La Farge, John

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Givens, Charles J.

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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 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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Weil, Simone

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Berger, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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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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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 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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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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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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