Looking Back Quotes - Page 23

• But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

  Megan Hart

  Hurt, Back When, Problem

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• Looking back, my life so far seems like one long obstacle race, with me as its chief obstacle.

  Jack Paar

  Race, Long, Obstacles

  "I Kid You Not".

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• How small a portion of our life it is that we really enjoy! In youth we are looking forward to things that are to come; in old age we are looking backward to things that are gone past; in manhood, although we appear indeed to be more occupied in things that are present, yet even that is too often absorbed in vague determinations to be vastly happy on some future day when we have time.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Determination, Past, Age

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.101

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• Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Light, Flames

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Life, Relationship, Real

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.106, Random House

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• Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.

  Hillary Clinton

  Moving, Looking For Love, Moments

  Announcing Suspension of Presidential Campaign, delivered 7 June 2008, National Building Museum, Washington, D.C.

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• It isn't good to hold on too hard to the past. You can't spend your whole life looking back. Not even when you can't see what lies ahead. All you can do is keep on keeping on, and try to believe that tomorrow will be what it should be—even if it isn't what you expected.

  Jim Butcher

  Lying, Believe, Past

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• I've never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see him in my dreams. They are nightmares mostly, but nightmares tinged with love. Such is the strangeness of the human heart. I still cannot understand how he could abandon me so unceremoniously, without any sort of goodbye, without looking back even once. The pain is like an axe that chops my heart.

  Yann Martel

  Goodbye, Dream, Pain

  Yann Martel, Canongate Books (2007). “Life of Pi (Illustrated): Deluxe Illustrated Edition”, p.22, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Most people, looking back at their childhood, see it as a misty country half-forgotten or only to be remembered through an evocative sound or scent, but some episodes of those short years remain clear and brightly coloured like a landscape seen through the wrong end of a telescope.

  D.E. Stevenson

  Country, Years, People

  D. E. Stevenson (1978). “Listening Valley”

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• Can you imagine that Cuba and Europe's youth, who had forgotten about traditional music, who only thought of rock music, are now looking back towards their grandparents? That is a phenomenon.

  Compay Segundo

  Rocks, Europe, Grandparent

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• Sometimes I imagine myself looking back on right now and I think like where will I be standing when I look back Will right now look like the beginning of a great life or... or what

  Jennifer Egan

  Thinking, Looks, Sometimes

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• You have to find what’s good and true and beautiful in your life as it is now. Looking back makes you competitive. And, age is not a competitive issue.

  Mitch Albom

  Beautiful, Issues, Age

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.120, Broadway Books

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• I think looking forward will be better than looking back.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Thinking, Looking Forward

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• Used to the conditions of a capitalistic environment, the average American takes it for granted that every year business makes something new and better accessible to him. Looking backward upon the years of his own life, he realizes that many implements that were totally unknown in the days of his youth and many others which at that time could be enjoyed only by a small minority are now standard equipment of almost every household.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Philosophy, Average, Years

  Ludwig Von Mises (1990). “Economic freedom and interventionism: an anthology of articles and essays”

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• A few years ago I met an old professor at the University of Notre Dame. Looking back on his long life of teaching, he said with a funny wrinkle in his eyes: I have always been complaining that my work was constantly interrupted, until I slowly discovered that my interruptions were my work.

  Henri Nouwen

  Teaching, Eye, Wrinkles

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• Look at every situation as if you were in the future and you were looking back on it.

  Peter Schoomaker

  Past, Looks, Situation

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• The future is there... looking back at us. Trying to make sense of the fiction we will have become.

  William Gibson

  Trying, Fiction, Make Sense

  William Gibson (2003). “Pattern Recognition”, p.54, Penguin

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• When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?

  Frank Borman

  Peace, Moon, Ubuntu

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• I live a very different life now, with incredible privileges, but looking back I realise that growing up in Russia gave me tools that other people don't necessarily have - such as the will to push that bit further, to make things happen, to succeed.

  Natalia Vodianova

  Growing Up, Russia, People

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• I shall always be grateful for this curious love of history, allowing me to spend a lifetime looking back into the past, allowing me to learn from these large figures about the struggle for meaning for life.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Struggle, Grateful, Past

  "Doris Kearns Goodwin: Living With the Presidents". Interview with Susan Sarfati, www.pcmaconvene.org. January 1, 2014.

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• Looking back, my whole life seems so surreal. I didn't just turn up on the doorstep playing rugby, I had to go through a whole lot of things to get there.

  Jonah Lomu

  Rugby, Surreal, Whole Life

  "Jonah Lomu: Wing commander has seen the light". Interview with Anna Kessel, www.theguardian.com. March 20, 2010.

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• I think art is good at looking back and looking forward. I don't think art is good at looking head-on. At the end of the day, people are more important than paintings.

  Damien Hirst

  Art, Thinking, People

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• You want to fall in love with a shoe, go ahead. A shoe can't love you back, but, on the other hand, a shoe can't hurt you too deeply either. And there are so many nice-looking shoes.

  Allan Sherman

  Falling In Love, Hurt, Nice

  Allan Sherman (1965). “A gift of laughter: the autobiography of Allan Sherman”

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• I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.

  Jomo Kenyatta

  Past, Looks, Forget

  Post-election statement in 1964. "Ancestral Passions: The leakey Family and the Quest for Humankind's Beginnings". Book by Virginia Morell. Chapter 19, 1995.

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• In my last year of school, I was voted Class Optimist and Class Pessimist. Looking back, I realize I was only half right.

  Jack Nicholson

  School, Years, Class

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