Past Quotes - Page 2

• The error of the past is the wisdom of the future.

  Dale E. Turner

  Errors, Criminals, Criminal Mind

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• Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Strong, Mistake

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• You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.

  Richard Bach

  Inspirational, Positive, Future

  Richard Bach (2012). “Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah”, p.51, Delta

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

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

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• If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Love, Regret, Sadness

  Mercedes Lackey (2004). “Exile's Valor”, p.106, Penguin

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• Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

  "Gov. Brown Uses State of the State Speech to Push Education Reforms" by Adolfo Guzman-Lopez, www.scpr.org. January 24, 2013.

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• Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2016, Delphi Classics

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• Nostalgia is a seductive liar.

  George Ball

  Liars, Lying, Seductive

  Newsweek, 1971.

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• Memory is a mirror that scandalously lies.

  Julio Cortazar

  Memories, Lying, Mirrors

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• No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

  Umar

  Worry, Guilt, Amount

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• So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Tattoo, Time

  The Great Gatsby ch. 9 (1925).

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• He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Inspiring, Memories, Heart

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

  T. S. Eliot

  Letting Go, Time, Acceptance

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• Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2009). “The Crack-Up”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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• You are what you are today because of the choices you made in the past

  Jim Rohn

  Choices, Today, Made

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• Every man should be born again on the first day of January. Start with a fresh page. Take up one hole more in the buckle if necessary, or let down one, according to circumstances; but on the first of January let every man gird himself once more, with his face to the front, and take no interest in the things that were and are past.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Happiness, New Year

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

  Thomas Head Raddall

  Forget, Forget It

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

  Paul Dickson

  Looks, May, Pleasure

  Paul Dickson (2014). “Rising to the Occasion: The Best Toasts for Any Celebration”, p.57, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• One faces the future with one's past.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Time, Memories, Motivation

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  Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  George Santayana

  Infancy Is, History, Progress

  "The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress", Vol. I, Reason in Common Sense by George Santayana, 1905-1906.

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• The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

  Andre Maurois

  Happiness, Being Happy, Business

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

  Warren Buffett

  War, Investing Money, Yesterday

  "The Security I Like Best". Warren Buffett, The Commercial and Financial Chronicle (December 6, 1951), as quoted in "5 Tips From Warren Buffett Every Investor Should Take to Heart" by Stacy Rapacon, grow.acorns.com. August 24, 2017.

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• You have to know the past to understand the present.

  Carl Sagan

  Knowledge, Political, Historical

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.62, Ballantine Books

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• Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Memories, Lying, Spring

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Harold Bloom (2009). “Gabriel Garci ́a Ma ́rquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude”, p.198, Infobase Publishing

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• I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Love, Inspirational, Graduation

  Thomas Jefferson, Joyce Appleby, Terence Ball (1999). “Jefferson: Political Writings”, p.53, Cambridge University Press

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