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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Douglass, Frederick

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

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

Buffett, Warren

11.

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Weil, Simone

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

Rich, Adrienne

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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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Every man is his own ancestor, and every man his own heir. He devises his own fortune, and he inherits his own past.

Hedge, Francis Herbert

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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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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).

34.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Fredrich

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

Ovid

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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

49.

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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.