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

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

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Weil, Simone

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.

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

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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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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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Givens, Charles J.

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Horace

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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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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Berger, John

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Welch, John

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

Saying

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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

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.