Motivational Quotes

Past

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

- Ade, George

Best Quotes about Past

Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Proverb, German

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

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

Campolo, Tony

10.

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

Eliot, T. S.

11.

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

Horace

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

Buffett, Warren

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Wolfe, Charles

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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

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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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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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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Saying

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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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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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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Moon, William Least Heat

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The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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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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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 grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

Einstein, Albert

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Ovid

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