Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

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

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.

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

La Farge, John

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Schuller, Robert H.

10.

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.

11.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

12.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

21.

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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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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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).

27.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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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One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

Bachelard, Gaston

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ovid

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Proverb, German

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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 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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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