Top 100 Forward Backward Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Once upon a time the future was supposed to be brighter, shinier and more fun. When did that vision pass? When did the word 'new' lose it's luster? Now the past is supposed to hold the hopes we once confided to the future. We're directing attachments that used to go forward backward.
Ann Marlowe
#3. A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; - read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#4. You can look forward with love or backward with hate, and people have to make that choice for themselves. But holding on to bitterness is like drinking poison and waiting for someone else to die, and she by God wasn't going to waste her time like that.
Abigail Strom
#6. Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
#7. Right now, though, I wanted not to think forward or backward, but only to lose myself in the words.
Sarah Dessen
#8. No people can go forward when the majority of those who should know better have chosen to go backward, but this is exactly what most of our misleaders do.
Carter G. Woodson
#9. I loved you backward and forward in time. I loved you beyond boundaries of time and space.
Dan Simmons
#10. You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.
Leryn Franco
#11. I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
Charlotte Bronte
#12. The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward.
Igor Sikorsky
#14. Prospective research looks forward in time to see how a group of individual change over time while retrospective research looks backward in time and attempts to reconstruct the conditions that led to the current situation.
Shelley E. Taylor
#15. I made the journey to knowledge like dogs who go for walks with their masters, a hundred times forward and backward over the same territory; and when I arrived I was tired.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#16. These are islands in time - with nothing to date them on the calendar of mankind. In these areas it is as though a person were looking backward into the ages and forward untold years. Here are bits of eternity, which have a preciousness beyond all accounting.
Harvey Broome
#17. Few tips,
Don't Stop, don't look backward, what has happen has already happen and try again.
Deyth Banger
#18. Well, I'd say fuck too, if I were me. I'd say it backward and forward and around the block, fuck this and fuck that and fuck it all at once, twice, three times.
Colum McCann
#19. I think for kids it's the most important part of the game. You have to be able to skate forward and backward, stop and start, go from side to side. Those are the basics of the game.
Bobby Hull
#20. The gorillas are not yet sufficiently advanced in evolutionary terms to have discovered the benefits of passports, currency-declaration forms, and official bribery, and therefore tend to wander backward and forward across the border as and when their beastly, primitive whim takes them.
Douglas Adams
#21. 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
#22. So different are the colours of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.
Victor Hugo
#23. We all know what we should have done as we look backward. Yet looking backward further still, we may say that all goes as the Wild Magic wills. And we must look forward if we are to live long enough to look backward.
Mercedes Lackey
#24. Ruth Bracket's arms moved backward and forward in rhythmic motion. She was rowing, yet no sound came from her oarlocks. Oars and oarlocks were padded. She liked it best that way. Why? Mystery - that magic word "mystery." How she loved it!
Mildred A. Wirt
#25. Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises
John Piper
#26. By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward.
Fulton J. Sheen
#28. When one makes a Revolution, one cannot mark time; one must always go forward - or go back. He who now talks about the 'freedom of the press' goes backward, and halts our headlong course towards Socialism.
Vladimir Lenin
#29. Failing once in awhile is inevitable. The question is which way are we falling most of the time. Are we falling Backward or Forward, Downward or Forward?
Assegid Habtewold
#30. A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day.
Grandma Moses
#31. Paradoxically, only journeying backward in time and reentering the home we once knew allows us to go forward to the home we've always wanted.
Gloria Steinem
#32. I wish I could tell you which issues will move forward surprisingly fast and which will slip unaccountably backward. There will be surprises in store on both fronts. All I know for sure is that those twenty-six shapes are what we have to defend our liberty and sustain our hope.
Andrew Solomon
#33. Kierkegaard so shrewdly observes, one is condemned to live it forward and review it backward.
Christopher Hitchens
#34. I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.
Michelle Moran
#35. We are not going back. Not only are we not going to retreat on women's rights, we are going to expand them. We are going forward, not backward.
Bernie Sanders
#36. And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
Robert Frost
#37. We would prefer all gain and no loss in life, yet that would gain us nothing more than great loss.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#38. The birth of the Savior into mortality is an event of immeasurable significance that occurred almost 2,000 years ago. In much of the world, calendar years are numbered forward and backward from the entire time of His birth.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
#39. Don't believe the dark whisperings that invite you to walk backward. At any time in your life, you have the power to turn forward.
Anasazi Foundation
#40. And so everything I see in this world, it all moves backward and forward at the same time, like a black-smith's bellows, like everything in my press, turning into its opposite at the command of the red and green buttons, and that's what makes the world go round.
Bohumil Hrabal
#41. Our Christian walk should never be stagnant. The crucial question for us is this: Which direction are we moving? Are we moving forward or are we moving backward?
Wendy Blight
#42. Bereft of vision to guide the city's citizens forward, he could only draw them inward and backward, to encourage them to fight over imagined foes and manufactured hurt.
I.M. Savage
#43. Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.
Quentin Crisp
#44. Remembering backward is the easy thing. If you could remember forward, you could save yourself ...
Joyce Carol Oates
#45. For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.
Gary Hamel
#46. It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.
Louis Sachar
#47. The real enemies of our life are the 'oughts' and the 'ifs.' They pull us backward into the unalterable past and forward into the unpredictable future. But real life takes place in the here and now.
Henri Nouwen
#48. Don't keep your head turned backwards. Look ahead and move on. You are trying to walk forward with your head turned backward. This is why you feel miserable. Just let go!
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#49. We all have defining moments. It is in these moments that we find our true characters. We become heroes or cowards; truth tellers or liars; we go forward or we go backward.
Robert Kiyosaki
#50. It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.
Siri Hustvedt
#51. While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.
Robert Breault
#52. From stone's point of view the universe is hardly created and mountain ranges are bouncing up and down like organ-stops while continents zip backward and forward in general high spirits, crashing into each other from the sheer joy of momentum and getting their rocks off.
Terry Pratchett
#53. To "learn from experience" is to make a backward and forward connection between what we do to things and what we enjoy or suffer from things in consequence.
John Dewey
#54. It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
Nancy Astor
#55. The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill
#56. Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.
Charles Yu
#57. We all must travel,' the driver said, keeping his eyes on the way ahead. His hands grasped the wheel firmly. 'It is the essence of all things, to move and change and keep going forward and backward and around. Even the spirits and the dead.
Nnedi Okorafor
#58. That's when I realized that certain moments go on forever. Even after they're over they still go on, even after you're dead and buried, those moments are lasting still, backward and forward, on into infinity. They are everything and everywhere all at once.
They are the meaning.
Lauren Oliver
#59. 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
#60. In infinite space and time everything develops, becomes more perfect and more complex, is differentiated,is to say nothing at all. Those are all words with no meaning, for in the infinite is neither complex nor simple, no forward nor backward, or better or worse.
Leo Tolstoy
#61. Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
Eric Roth
#62. You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.
Karen Marie Moning
#63. I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.
W.C. Fields
#64. Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
Abraham Verghese
#65. Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and start failing forward!
John C. Maxwell
#66. But more often than not, the easy decisions are the wrong decisions, and sometimes we feel like we're going backward when we're actually moving forward.
Cecelia Ahern
#67. 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
#68. To look backward for a while is to refresh the eye, to restore it, and to render it the more fit for its prime function of looking forward.
Margaret Barber
#69. Business in Russia was not being done like in the West, with contracts. In Russia, hundreds of millions of dollars were going forward and backward by word of mouth.
David Reuben
#70. It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner, who persists in his regard for a certain terrain, a certain history, and a certain inherited way of living.
John Crowe Ransom
#71. Love is motion Potter love is forward movement but you said yourself the memory reel backward it's all backward with you. You are stuck back there because Potter you don't let yourself move forward your eyes get stuck on things and people.
Kyle Beachy
#72. This was how history moved, the slow build, the quick burn, and in an incoherence, the leaping both backward and forward, swallowing the young into old hate.
Kiran Desai
#73. It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else ... begin to march us steadily backward.
Patrick Stewart
#74. Small wonder that President Obama advises us to look forward, not backward - a convenient doctrine for those who hold the clubs. Those who are beaten by them tend to see the world differently, much to our annoyance.
Noam Chomsky
#75. It looks as if the offspring have eyes so that they can see well (bad, teleological, backward causation), but that's an illusion. The offspring have eyes because their parents' eyes did see well (good, ordinary, forward causation).
Steven Pinker
#76. I found college awkward: another teacher, same old chalkboard.
I felt I was shifting backward, when I expected to shoot forward.
MC Paul Barman
#77. I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.
James Van Praagh
#78. I'm not sure this will make sense to you but I felt as though I'd turned around to look in a different direction so that I no longer faced backward toward the past but forward toward the future. And now the question confronting me was this: What would the future be
Arthur Golden
#79. It's cool to play the guitar, but to me it's even cooler to scratch a guitar backward and forward, to manipulate it with a turntable. Guitars can't do that themselves.
Diplo
#80. Backward we are naturally to all good things, and it is a lesson of grace to learn to go forward in the ways of God.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#81. I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
Iggy Pop
#82. Gypsy [Rose Lee] wasn't a linear person, and she didn't live life in a linear fashion. She was relentlessly self-inventing, and moved backward as often as she moved forward.
Karen Abbott
#83. In life, it take strides forward, but you always take a few steps back. But in the end, if you take more steps forward than backward, you're making progress.
Carmen Rodrigues
#84. A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.
May Sarton
#85. Art need not be intended. It comes inevitably as the tree from the root, the branch from the trunk, the blossom from the twig. None of these forget the present in looking backward or forward. They are occupied wholly with the fulfillment of their own existence.
Robert Henri
#86. Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.
Muriel Spark
#87. No More Avengers! There's nothing new to get out of it - I want to go forward, not backward.
Honor Blackman
#88. Jesus, you're so bloody ... forward."
"You don't get anywhere in life by going backward.
Samantha Towle
#89. I want you sore, baby," he murmurs, and he continues his sweet, leisurely torment, backward, forward. "Every time you move tomorrow, I want you to be reminded that I've been here. Only me. You are mine.
E.L. James
#90. His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract.
William Shakespeare
#91. The real strategic differentiation is to create true value, look forward, not backward, and present the advanced uniqueness to shine through.
Pearl Zhu
#92. 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
#93. At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.
Jesse Jackson
#94. Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom.
Arthur Schopenhauer
#95. You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
Jim Bakker
#96. If you are content with yourself, you'll stop taking those little steps forward and begin taking big steps backward.
Greg Maddux
#97. Every challenge you encounter in life is a fork in the road. You have the choice to choose which way to go - backward, forward, breakdown or breakthrough.
Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
#98. 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
#99. My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it - all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary - but love it
Friedrich Nietzsche
#100. The sad truth is that certain types of things can't go backward. Once they start going forward, no matter what you do, they can't go back the way they were. If even one little thing goes awry, then that's how it will stay forever.
Haruki Murakami
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