Motivational Quotes

Past

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

- Gorky, Maxim

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

Your past is important, but it is not nearly as important to your present as the way you see your future.

Campolo, Tony

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.

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

Proverb, German

May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.

Dickson, Paul

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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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

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

Weil, Simone

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Saying

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

La Farge, John

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

Shakespeare, William

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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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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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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To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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).

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

Fredrich

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Horace

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