Motivational Quotes

Past

Posterity will pay everyone their due.

- Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

Best Quotes about Past

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Welch, John

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

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).

The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

King Jr. Martin Luther

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

Horace

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

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

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

La Farge, John

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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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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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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 next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Rich, Adrienne

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If you look back too much, you will soon be headed that way

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

Weil, Simone

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

Proverb, German

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

Saying

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

Berger, John

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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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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.

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Shakespeare, William

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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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

45.

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

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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Buffett, Warren

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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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It is not the literal past, the facts of history, that shape us, but images of the past embodied in language.

Friel, Brian