85 Best Remembering Quotes to recap your memories

Find here the collection of some motivational remembering quotes that will help you to recap your old memories.

Our mind is never under our control. There is always something going on. Sometimes the old days come to our mind and we start thinking about it. We can learn a lot from them by remembering the old days. By learning from the mistakes we have made, we can move forward, discipline ourselves.

Here are some motivational Remembering Quotes, which will bring back your childhood happiness and memories. It will also help you learn from what you have done in the past.

Motivational Remembering Quotes

1. “Remembering that man is indeed the microcosm, the universe in miniature, the Divine Dance of the future should be able to convey with its slightest gestures some significance of the universe.” ― Ruth St. Denis

2. “Being a good leader requires remembering that you’re there for a reason, and the reason certainly isn’t to have your way. High-integrity leaders not only welcome questioning and criticism – they insist on it.” ― Travis Bradberry

3. “Remember that the man who always fights one more round is never whipped.” ― James J. Corbett

4. “I think it’s always worth remembering that people sending off mean tweets are probably pretty lonely people.” ― James Blunt

5. “We must welcome the future, remembering that soon it will be the past; and we must respect the past, remembering that it was once all that was humanly possible.” ― George Santayana

6. “For me, it’s easy to continue remembering someone that is impossible to forget.” ― Zelda Williams

7. “Poetry is all that is worth remembering in life.” ― William Hazlitt

8. “I’m not good at remembering things, in general.” ― John Prine

9. “Some choices we live not only once but thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.” ― Richard Bach

10. “Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.” ― Thomas a Kempis

Short Remembering Quotes

11. “Discipline is remembering what you want.” ― David Campbell

12. “When your heart knows the truth, it never forgets.” ― Shannon L. Alder

13. “I remembered every moment between us, and every moment felt more precious as time passed.” ― Shannon A. Thompson

14. “Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.” ― Sholem Asch

15. “It’s impossible to remember what we don’t pay attention to in the first place.” ― Chris Bailey

16. “The great thing is not remembering but being able to remember.” ― Marty Rubin

17. “Remembering the past always comes with an image or a view attached.” ― Orhan Pamuk

18. “More we remember more is chance to know who we are.” ― Rati Tsiteladze

19. “I remember you with my soul clenched in that sadness of mine that you know.” ― Pablo Neruda

20. “There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.” ― Alfred de Musset

21. “Every person’s remembering will be different. That engagement is important, I think.” ― Christian Marclay

22. “I always have trouble remembering three things: faces, names, and – I can’t remember what the third thing is.” ― Fred Allen

Childhood Remembering Quotes

23. “Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.” ― Dr. Seuss

24. “Literature is a textually transmitted disease, normally contracted in childhood.” ― Jane Yolen

25. “The thing I miss most from home is having a home.” ― Anthony Liccione

26. “Never stop screaming, playing, and laughing, it’s part of our childhood which will always be with us.” ― Romina Noriega

27. “As a child, I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know.” ― Carl Gustav Jung

28. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” ― Franklin D. Roosevelt

29. “Memories of childhood were the dreams that stayed with you after you woke.” ― Julian Barnes

30. “Don’t you wish you could take a single childhood memory and blow it up into a bubble and live inside it forever?” ― Sarah Addison Allen

31. “Eventually, however, the denial turned into emptiness and my childhood ended.” ― Floyd C. Forsberg

32. “And that’s when I heard the whisper in my heart’s ear: “It’s not about your childhood. It’s about who you are!” ― C. JoyBell C.

33. “When we are children we seldom think of the future. This innocence leaves us free to enjoy ourselves as few adults can. The day we fret about the future is the day we leave our childhood behind.” ― Patrick Rothfuss

Remembering Memories Quotes

34. “Memories are never as true as the things one forgets.” ― Marty Rubin

35. “The memory is what lasts; history is written as substantiation.” ― A.D. Aliwat

36. “Memories are a form of simile: when we say something is ‘like’ we are remembering.” ― Graham Greene

37. “Stories about lives remembered to bring us backward while allowing us to move forward.” ― Nina Sankovitch

38. “Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.” ― Theodore Roosevelt

39. “Remembering is painful, it’s difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.” ― Paul Greengrass

40. “The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering.” ― Bruce Lee

41. “A sorrow’s crown of sorrow is remembering happier times.” ― Alfred Lord Tennyson

42. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” ― Steve Jobs

43. “There is something in the pang of change More than the heart can bear, Unhappiness remembering happiness.” ― Euripides

44. “Beyond remembering me as a good goalkeeper or a bad goalkeeper, I just hope that people remember me for being a good person.” ― Iker Casillas

45. “Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.” ― Elizabeth Bibesco

46. “Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.” ― Seamus Heaney

Remembering Quotes for those that have passed

47. “Take without forgetting, and give without remembering.” ― Bryant H. McGill

48. “The process of learning requires not only hearing and applying but also forgetting and then remembering again.” ― John Gray

49. “Knowing the rules and remembering the rules are two completely different things.” ― Simon Travaglia

50. “Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.” ― Amit Ray

51. “The whole world can’t lick us but we can lick ourselves by longing too hard for things we haven’t got any more – and by remembering too much.” ― Margaret Mitchell

52. “Illumination is remembering your identity as the eternal spirit and energy that animates all that is.” ― Raphael Zernoff

53. “It is terrible how much has been forgotten, which is why, I suppose, remembering seems a holy thing.” ― Anita Diamant

54. “Maybe that was how I found comfort just then, even with him being so far away. By remembering the flavor of his words.” ― Clare Vanderpool

55. “Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don’t teach us. Exercising one’s memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and wears down our muscles.” ― Juan Gabriel Vásquez

56. “We can’t remember what it is that we’ve forgotten. That we have been made to forget.” ― Margaret Atwood

57. “If you remember yourself, you will remember me. I am always a part of you. I am your mother.” ― Emma Michaels

Remembering Everything Quotes

58. “The act of remembering is an act of retracing, and by doing so we erase and change the stencil.” ― Ken Liu

59. “You must remember everything. Everything must be remembered, but the bad, like private parts, shouldn’t be shown without a good reason.” ― Valentin Rasputin

60. “The easiest way to be immortal is to stop thinking and the easiest way to stop thinking is to work hard physically! Remember, when you don’t think, you are immortal!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

61. “Remembering wasn’t safe. You could lose your mind, remembering.” ― Octavia E. Butler

62. “Forgetting happens. If you stress about it, it’ll happen even more.” ― Lisa Genova

63. “The mind plays tricks. It rejects things until it thinks ― or something tells it ― that the remembering can be handled.” ― Robert Ludlum

64. “The dead will not die completely till the day they are remembered by no one!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

65. “Trying to forget someone whom you love, is like trying to remember someone you have never known.” ― Kambiz Shabankare

66. “The fear of forgetting anything precious can trigger in us the wish to raise a structure, like a paperweight to hold down our memories.” ― Alain de Botton

67. “Exactly why we survive and can look back with furrowed brow is beyond me.” ― Claudia Rankine

Remembering is Painful Quotes

68. “Recollection could be more powerful and more perilous than the experience itself.” ― Mark Helprin

69. “If you don’t remember your umbrella even when it rains, you’ll never remember it!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

70. “I would rather remember even if sometimes it can be very painful.” ― Giovanni Morassutti

71. “That’s what’s important these days, isn’t it? Everything should be fun and lighthearted.” ― Liane Moriarty

72. “I suppose if we forgot stuff we’ll never know we forgot it because we won’t remember.” ― Pete Hautman

73. “Remember me when I am gone away. Gone far away into the silent land.” ― Justin Cronin

74. “Don’t forget, always, somewhere, someone is fighting for you. As long as you remember her, you are not alone.” ― Gen Urobuchi

75. “Remembering is mental time travel.” ― Endel Tulving

76. “You don’t learn confidence, you remember it.” ― Freequill

77. “Forgetting is as integral to memory as death is to live.” ― Rabih Alameddine

78. “Memory is a strange combination of those things we work to remember and the things we can never forget.” ― Elena Hartwell

79. “Wherever you visit, let the place you visit remember you well!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan

Best Quotes About Remembering

80. “In the practical use of our intellect, forgetting is as important a function as recollecting.” ― William James

81. “Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?” ― Heather Chaplin

82. “No one is ever really lost as long as their story still exists.” ― R. M. Romero

83. “Moments always blossom more beautifully in memories.” ― Richelle E. Goodrich

84. “I’ve had several work addiction cycles in my life. Those were situations when important tasks were assigned to me. I took into account that people should remember me based on what I did rather than based on what I failed to do.” ― Eraldo Banovac

85. “History is made not of facts set in stone but of the stories we tell.” ― Michelle Richmond

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