Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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.

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

Horace

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).

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

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

Sidney, Sir Philip

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

Eliot, T. S.

The people who get into trouble in our company are those who carry around the anchor of the past.

Welch, John

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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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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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

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Guare, John

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

La Farge, John

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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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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Givens, Charles J.

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The past always looks better than it was because it isn't here.

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Ovid

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb, German

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

Waitley, Denis

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fredrich

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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.