Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

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

Waitley, Denis

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

La Farge, John

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

Berger, John

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Proverb, German

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Horace

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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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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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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The free world must not prove itself worthy of its own past.

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Reagan, Ronald

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Fredrich

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich