Motivational Quotes

Past

Look to the past for guidance into the future.

- Goodkin, Robert Jacob

Best Quotes about Past

We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and the future.

Douglass, Frederick

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

Dickson, Paul

Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

It is one thing to learn about the past; it is another to wallow in it.

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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

The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

Carlyle, Thomas

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.

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

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

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

Fredrich

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Rich, Adrienne

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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

Scott, Sir Walter

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

La Farge, John

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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 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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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

Barnard, Charlotte

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

Horace

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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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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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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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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 does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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

Shakespeare, William

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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What is past is prologue.

Shakespeare, William

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

Proverb, German

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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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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