Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ovid

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

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Fredrich

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Saying

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

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

La Farge, John

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

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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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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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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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