Backward Step Quotes

#1. [W]hen you practise right meditation, you 'cease from practice based on intellectual understanding, pursuing words and following speech, and learn the backward step that turns your light inwardly to illuminate your self.

Steve Hagen

#2. You should stop searching for phrases and chasing after words. Take the backward step and turn the light inward. Your body-mind of itself will drop off and your original face will appear. If you want to attain just this, immediately practice just this.

Dogen

#3. It seemed like a backward step at first, but now I know going back was the only way to show how far I've come.

Kekla Magoon

#4. Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

August Strindberg

#5. Success is brought by continued labor and continued watchfulness. We must struggle on, not for one moment hesitate, nor take one backward step.

William Jennings Bryan

#6. Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face will be manifest.

Dogen

#7. Finn says, "No, ma'am," as he enters the shop, where he gets poked directly in the chest by the fertility goddess. I move a step backward so he can get away because the last thing I need is for Finn to suddenly decide to become fertile.

Maggie Stiefvater

#8. Perhaps making movies is a step toward being able to move backward and forward and in and out of linear time.

Eleanor Coppola

#9. The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Stephen Gardiner

#10. But not to take a step forward is to take two steps backward", Abnum protested.

~ Before the Throne

Naguib Mahfouz

#11. And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction.

Kurt Vonnegut

#12. Optimist: Someone who figures that taking a step backward
after taking a step forward is not a disaster, it's a cha-cha.

Robert Brault

#13. If Bangladesh succumbs to the rule of one family, it would be a major step backward for the region.

Khaleda Zia

#14. There's only so far we can step backward in one day

Leisenring

#15. Great Leadership sometimes requires taking a step backward in order to take a leap forward.

Todd Stocker

#16. My feet took an involuntary step backward as I suddenly envisioned a world where I wasn't a hot tempered smartass. It was a pretty world.

Jennifer R. McDonald

#17. Step backward and assess the situation. if you can't do that, step forward and take charge.

Sydney Wilhelmy

#18. My journey has been a very slow build-up. Each year has been a step upward. I've never actually gone backward.

Vijay Singh

#19. Notwithstanding how uncanny moments of life might be, you never walk backwards. Once you take a step, you move forward by a step with a step. That is life! Even a child would never crawl backward and so would streams hardly flow backward. Just keep moving when it is a must to move!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#20. No one step back, that is the idea ... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us! ... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards ... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune.

Swami Vivekananda

#21. There's a reason why your toes are forward and your heels backward.
It means, step on your past with your heels and approach your furute with your toes.

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

#22. Here's an idea: How about just 'Americans?' That has a nice ring to it, if you ask me. Placing undue emphasis on our 'separateness' is a step backward. Bring back the melting pot.

Bobby Jindal

#23. Don't step backward toward nothing, step forward toward something, better awkward steps forward, than coward steps backward.

Victoria Addino

#24. She reflects on the girl she had been in this place, and the things she had to do in order to survive. For a long time, she'd had to live her child- hood backward, forced to step up and take charge of things that were thrust into her hands.

Susan Wiggs

#25. I'm not sure he's wrong about automobiles," he said. "With all their speed forward they may be a step backward in civilization
that is, in spiritual civilization. It may be that they will not add to the beauty of the world, nor to the life of men's souls.

Booth Tarkington

#26. When I turn on the TV in Russia I see a general calmly claiming that our missiles are ahead of the latest American models by three five-year plans. It's a nightmare. We are creating a concept of the enemy, just as they did in the Soviet era. This is a giant step backward.

Vladimir Sorokin

#27. I can be absolutely assured that any endeavor of which God is not a part is most certainly a step backward. And any step backward is at least two steps behind where I'd be if I'd have gone forward in the first place.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#28. It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense.

James Gray

#29. His hand fell to his side. "Honey, come here."
She shook her head and took another step backward. "I don't trust you."
"Baby, you don't trust yourself.

Rachel Gibson

#30. Acceptance may be seen as the first step in healing, though when there is true acceptance, this is not really a step. Acceptance is there whether you step forward, backward or remain where you are. Also when acceptance is total there is no need of any further step. Acceptance will suffice.

Franco Santoro

#31. The past can hold a weak man down like an anchor. It takes a strong man to remember the past, but forgive. Forgive and forget. Taking the first step forward is difficult. But take it. Save a backward glance for the times when you're uncertain, just to make sure your past is where it belongs,

Scott Hildreth

#32. No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.

Amar Bose

#33. Many of the gunters on the front lines took an involuntary step backward. A few others turned and ran for their lives.

Ernest Cline

#34. Seeing you puts me in mind of a piece of French chocolate." She swallowed and took another step backward. "If one wants to discover what is inside, one must first remove the foreign wrapping.

Julie Klassen

#35. Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again.

Yvon Chouinard

#36. In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear.

James Arthur Ray

#37. She had resolved to never take another step backward.

Kate Chopin

#38. And so when the scar wraith approached him, he took a diagonal step backward putting himself behind Squirrel like a king retreating behind a pawn.

Neal Shusterman

#39. The transfer of Wall Street from private ownership to public ownership has been a big step backward.

John C. Bogle

#40. It is necessary sometimes to take one step backward to take two steps forward.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#41. Take one step backward into the unknown.

Adyashanti

#42. While the others
those who wanted him to stay, to hold the line, to become the brink, but no farther
felt viable now with disgust for the shouters: they wanted the man to save himself, step backward into the arms of the cops instead of the sky.

Colum McCann