Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

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.

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

Dickson, Paul

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

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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

There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Saying

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

Horace

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Berger, John

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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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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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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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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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 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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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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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.

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

Ovid

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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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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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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Many are always praising the by-gone time, for it is natural that the old should extol the days of their youth; the weak, the time of their strength; the sick, the season of their vigor; and the disappointed, the spring-tide of their hopes.

Bingham, Caleb