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

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

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

La Farge, John

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

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

Ovid

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

Saying

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Einstein, Albert

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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Barzan, Gerald

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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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

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Proverb, German

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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, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fredrich

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

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

Wolfe, Charles

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Horace

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

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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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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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