Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Saying

Best Quotes about Past

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

Proverb, German

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

Campolo, Tony

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

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

Reagan, Ronald

They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

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

La Farge, John

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

Saying

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

Ovid

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

Rich, Adrienne

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Buffett, Warren

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

Weil, Simone

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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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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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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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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Look back, and smile at perils past.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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What is past is prologue.

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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The past does not equal the future.

Robbins, Anthony

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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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Shakespeare, William

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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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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There is nothing new, but what has become antiquated.

Proverb, French

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