Motivational Quotes

Past

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

- Ovid

Best Quotes about Past

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

Barzan, Gerald

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

Wolfe, Charles

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

Waitley, Denis

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

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

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.

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

Campolo, Tony

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

Ovid

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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The past should be a springboard, not a hammock.

Ball, Ivern

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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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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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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 never look back, I look forward.

Graf, Steffi

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The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

Berger, John

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

Einstein, Albert

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

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

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

Shakespeare, William

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

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Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

Ball, George W.

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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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Nothing is improbable until it moves into past tense.

Ade, George

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

Proverb, German

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

Syrus, Publilius

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

La Farge, John

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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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Look to the past for guidance into the future.

Goodkin, Robert Jacob

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

Givens, Charles J.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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In the maxim of the past you cannot go anywhere.

Gorky, Maxim

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

Schuller, Robert H.

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

Horace

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

Saying

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

Dunne, Finley Peter

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

Fredrich

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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