Motivational Quotes

Past

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

Best Quotes about Past

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

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

Schuller, Robert 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

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

What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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As lousy as things are now, tomorrow they will be somebody's good old days.

Barzan, Gerald

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Weil, Simone

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

La Farge, John

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Fredrich

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

Buffett, Warren

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

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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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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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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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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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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 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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Proverb, German

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