Looking Forward Not Backward Quotes

#1. We need to substitute 'trier' for failure. The word 'fail' is closely related to the word fall. A child taking his first step falls, cries and then tries again. Why does he try again? Because he wants to, but does not, know the meaning of failure.

Anup Kochhar

#2. You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.

Jim Bakker

#3. You don't see much of any path unless you are Janus, looking simultaneously backward and forward.

Frank Herbert

#4. History is often shaped by small groups of forward-looking innovators rather than by the backward-looking masses. Ten

Yuval Noah Harari

#5. Spare the stress on your neck muscles ... Looking backward takes more energy; it's more painful than looking forward! Go ahead!

Israelmore Ayivor

#6. The ability to listen is as important as the ability to speak.

Sheryl Sandberg

#7. A man who is looking backward all the time cannot move forward, he will be standing still

Sunday Adelaja

#8. There was no better way to feel powerful than to make others feel powerless.

Chris Dietzel

#9. Life must be lived forward but only makes sense by looking backward. Only in retrospect do the pieces of the puzzle connect, revealing an intelligently orchestrated evolution. Our journey through life is in a way like walking blindfolded.

Dorit Brauer

#10. Handing over a bank note is enough to make a bicycle belong to me, but my entire life is needed to realize this possession.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#11. I roll my eyes. "Oh, the woe of being adored."
Beta Sinta grins. "It's a hard life.

Amanda Bouchet

#12. Every Jewish holiday has a religious significance, a historical significance, and a relevance to the time of year in the natural calendar of the seasons and trees and growing things, as well as a personal significance. So you are always looking backward, outward, inward and forward.

Marge Piercy

#13. The fighter is to be always single-minded with one object in view: to fight, looking neither backward nor sidewise. To go straight forward in order to crush the enemy is all that is necessary for him.

D.T. Suzuki

#14. Stop looking backward. Life isn't lived in that direction. Your future isn't in that direction. It's forward, out into the horizon ahead of you.

F.E. Feeley Jr.

#15. You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

Soren Kierkegaard

#16. Beauty is looking backward and urging forward, and trying desperately to pay attention to the now.

Lou Gaglia

#17. Look to your heart and soul first, rather than looking to your head first, when choosing. Rather than what you think, consider instead how you feel. Look to the nature of things. Feel your choices and decisions. It just might change everything.

Jeffrey R. Anderson

#18. 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

#19. Looking forward to going home, I was necessarily looking backward.

Muriel Spark

#20. 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

#21. My mom had the breakdown for the family, and I went into therapy for all of us.

Carrie Fisher

#22. I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Iggy Pop

#23. 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

#24. You can't go forward if you're looking backward. You run into walls that way.

Karen Marie Moning

#25. Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.

Eric Roth

#26. I'm not a biographer, I'm a novelist.

Barry Unsworth

#27. Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.

Charles Yu

#28. It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.

Nancy Astor

#29. Overconsumption is a concern for people who've made it to regular consumption. I

Linda Tirado

#30. 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

#31. There is a point. I don't know what is it, but everything I've had, and everything I've lost, and everything I felt
it meant something. Maybe there isn't a meaning to life. Maybe there's only a meaning to living.
That's what I've learned. That's what I'm going to be doing. LIVING.

Kami Garcia

#32. 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

#33. I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

Charlotte Bronte