Look Back And Realize Quotes

#1. Life will always have a different plan for you. If you don't give up, you will eventually get to your destination. But towards the end of your life, you may look back and realize that it was never really about the destination; it was the journey that counted.

King Samuel Benson

#2. Sometimes, going forward, everything looks like a mess. But then we get through it, look back, and realize He knew exactly what He was doing." "Which

Melanie D. Snitker

#3. Success comes to a writer as a rule, so gradually that it is always something of a shock to him to look back and realize the heights to which he has climbed.

P.G. Wodehouse

#4. I'm rarely in a position where I can actually answer my phone without being rude to someone else. Sometimes I look back and realize it's been weeks since I've actually been alone. With texting, I can at least get a sense of what's going on without interrupting what I'm doing.

Steve Huffman

#5. When you keep blaming others for every mistake you make in life one day you'll look back and realize you're the mistake all along".

Abdulazeez Henry Musa

#6. Enjoy the little things in life because one day you'll look back and realize they were the big things.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

#7. But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.

Edie Brickell

#8. I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

George Meyer

#9. Today never feels like it will be history, but it will. And more likely than not, you will look back and realize that you should have known.

Scott Belsky

#10. I think we [Americans] are going to look back and realize that the civil liberties that we've given up in the name of security, the authority that we've given Democratic and Republican presidents, all have contributed to a fraying of the fabric of our democratic republic.

Jeremy Scahill

#11. When you look back and realize there is no way you would have had a better life with another person, that's when the relationship or marriage becomes worth it.

Olaotan Fawehinmi

#12. As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.

Natalie Dormer

#13. When you live life and you are living the experience, you tend not to appreciate them as you are living them. It's only when you look back and realize how special they were.

Priscilla Presley

#14. I look back now and realize that the gift of a true friend is that she sees you not the way you see yourself or the way others see you. A true friend sees you for who you are and who you can become.

Robin Jones Gunn

#15. I also wanted you to realize that even though the pain will always be there, I'm living proof you can get past this. Right now I know it feels impossible, but one day you'll look back and see how far you've come.

E.L. Montes

#16. You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

Mary Downing Hahn

#17. All you've got to do is go back and look in the early 1900s and see what we had in Texas without public education and realize what it has done for the state.

Pete Laney

#18. All these people, all these things came into my life, and they're all blessings from God. And now that I look back, I realize that these are His fingerprints all over my story.

Jeremy Lin

#19. It still amazes me when I look at some of the films I've been a part of, and some of the people I've gotten to meet and work with. I also look back sometimes and realize that I was lucky to have lived through them and even to have survived them, at times.

Christian Slater

#20. I look back now and realize you have to learn the system. Not kiss ass, but you have to learn the system.

Ozzie Guillen

#21. First, come to the point where you realize you are alone, completely and utterly alone in the vastness of the universe and all of time.
Then realize you are not alone. Look back on your life and see the people who stood by you. There were some. Realize the God of your understanding cares.

Christopher Hawke

#22. When you realize who you live for, and who's important to please, a lot of people will actually start living. I am never going to get caught up in that. I'm gonna look back on my life and say that I enjoyed it - and I lived it for me.

Rihanna

#23. When I look back now, I realize what a trial I must have been to my friends and relatives. It was one frenzy after one elation after one enthusiasm after one hysteria after another. I was always yelling and running somewhere, because I was afraid life was going to be over that very afternoon.

Ray Bradbury

#24. He wanted her to lift her head at this moment. He wanted her to look him in the eyes and realize that he loved her. He wanted her to love him back.

Courtney Milan

#25. It's pretty incredible to look back 30 years to when Microsoft was starting and realize how work has been transformed. We're finally getting close to what I call the digital workstyle.

Bill Gates

#26. But I'd rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it's too late.

Cherrie Lynn

#27. It's amazing how a certain time in your life can seem to be a prelude, but when you look back, you realize it was a whole work, with a beginning, middle, and end.

Jardine Libaire

#28. When you're old, do you really want to look back at your life and realize that you were never young?

Kyra Davis

#29. A lot of women don't realize that even a small heel helps you throw your shoulders back and keep your chest up; it really does make a difference in the way you present yourself. It changes your posture and makes you look more confident.

Stacy London

#30. I think sometimes in life we rush and only later look back and say, 'Wow, that was something pretty cool that I did,' and we realize we should have been more aware while it was happening.

Holly Holm

#31. But we look back now, and we realize the Great Society was not a success.

Alphonso Jackson

#32. Everyone hates their picture being taken and they're nervous and they're bringing all of that. When I meet with them they realize it is a collaboration and they look forward to coming back.

Carol Friedman

#33. God, I realize they need me, but even more, they need You. I need You because this mothering thing is awesome and hard. When I look back, I won't remember the days. I will remember the moments. And I'm thankful for that because, believe me, there are days I don't want to remember!

Kristen Welch

#34. If we miss this chance to make a fresh start, we may look back on this moment from some later vantage point and realize how much that failure cost us all.

Ronald Reagan

#35. When I look back now I realize I was such an obnoxious kid but, you know, I went to schools like you, like a public school in New York so compared to the anarchy that was going on there, they really wouldn't - I wasn't like a bad kid. I saw people come in and punch the teachers.

Colin Quinn

#36. I was happy, I knew that. While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realize - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.

Nikos Kazantzakis

#37. When you look back at that relationship you didn't think you could live without and realize had you stayed in it, you'd be some comfortable loser, sitting on the couch with another comfortable loser, instead of being the dope motherfucker you are today.

Darnell Lamont Walker

#38. People desire so many things and waste their days in vain... Some yearn for gold, others for power, yet others for glory and a higher station. But when death's moment nears and they look back at their lives, they realize they've been happy only during those moments when they've loved.

Borje Vahamaki

#39. I can look back at my darkest periods and realize that these were the times when the Lord was holding me closest. But I couldn't see His face becasue my face was in His breast ... crying.

John Michael Talbot

#40. We need to look back sometimes and realize the past taught us to appreciate our future.

Simone Elkeles

#41. You write a book, and after 50 pages you think it's about one thing, and then you write another hundred and you realize it's about something else, and then by the time you're done, you can look back and say, 'Oh, this is what it's about.'

Jami Attenberg

#42. And when I look back I recognize now that I indeed do come from a large family of artists. Whether they necessarily realize it or not.

E.J. Bonilla

#43. I look back on some of my early reviews of others, and realize to my chagrin that I've been as guilty as anybody else on that front.

Thomas L. Dumm

#44. Get involved. You don't want to look back on your life and realize that you successfully managed to stay out of it.

Robert Breault

#45. Back then I confused passions and orgasms with love. It look me years to realize the two weren't synonymous.

Terry McMillan