Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Weil, Simone

Best Quotes about Past

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

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

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

Douglass, Frederick

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

Raddal, Thomas H.

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

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

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

Auchincloss, Kenneth

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).

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

Reagan, Ronald

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

Barzan, Gerald

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Givens, Charles J.

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Posterity will pay everyone their due.

Tacitus, Publius Cornelius

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

La Farge, John

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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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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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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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 past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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

Saying

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

Einstein, Albert

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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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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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They spend their time looking forward to the past.

Osborne, John

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

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

Proverb, German

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

Shakespeare, William

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I never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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

Dickson, Paul

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

Horace

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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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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Colton, Charles Caleb