Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

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.

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

Welch, John

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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.

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

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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Barzan, Gerald

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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Berger, John

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

La Farge, John

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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Einstein, Albert

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

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

Givens, Charles J.

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If the only new thing we have to offer is an improved version of the past, then today can only be inferior to yesterday. Hypnotized by images of the past, we risk losing all capacity for creative change.

Hewison, Robert

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

Proverb, German

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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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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