Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Past

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

Friel, Brian

Losers live in the past. Winners learn from the past and enjoy working in the present toward the future.

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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

The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Martial, Marcus Valerius

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

10.

I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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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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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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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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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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It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. Each new historical era mirrors itself in the picture and active mythology of its past or of a past borrowed from other cultures. It tests its sense of identity, of regress or new achievement against that past.

Steiner, George

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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Saying

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Proverb, German

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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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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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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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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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The next day is never so good as the day before.

Syrus, Publilius

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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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 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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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 grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Weil, Simone

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