Top 100 Quotes About Look Back
#1. She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful. There were plenty of things she would like to look back on but wasn't willing to risk ...
Ann Brashares
#2. What's beautiful is to refuse to let yourself stop, sit down, fall asleep, or look back.
Emmanuelle Arsan
#3. In 30 years time, as technology moves forward even further, people are going to look back and wonder why offices ever existed.
Richard Branson
#4. Let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear but around in awareness. Let's see the beauty in everything. Let's create opportunities. Let's step out of something ordinary into something extraordinary!
Angela Rockwood
#5. As I look back over the truly crucial events in my life I realize that they were not planned long in advance. Albert Einstein said, 'There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is.'
Albert Einstein
#7. If you want to be constructive in politics, the less you look back, the better. If you do look back, then it can only be to learn for yourself through the events that have taken place.
Angela Merkel
#8. He didn't look back but he knew his wife and his brother's wife, all the women of the house, would be flying, as if into battle, to make East Slope as ready as it could ever be for what had arrived.
Guy Gavriel Kay
#9. I believe that a hundred years from now, when people look back at the 20th century, they will look at Miles, Bird, Clifford Brown, Ella and Dizzy, among elders as our Mozarts, our Chopins, our Bachs and Beethovens.
Quincy Jones
#10. When I look back over my career, there was so much stress. And it was because of the business. It was always because of the business.
Raine Maida
#11. I did it my way, and I have no regrets when I look back on my career that it was just a big focus for me.
Pete Sampras
#12. At the end of our lives we hope we will look back and, like an incense stick completely burned away, will have poured forth all our fragrance into the world.
Prem Prakash
#13. God will put someone in your life to say, don't look back there anymore. There is so much more in front of you than behind you.
Nakia R. Laushaul
#14. Process is nothing; erase your tracks. The path is not the work. I hope your tracks have grown over; I hope birds ate the crumbs; I hope you will toss it all and not look back.
Annie Dillard
#15. I can't talk about Hollywood. It was a horror to me when I was there and it's a horror to look back on. I can't imagine how I did it. When I got away from it I couldn't even refer to the place by name. 'Out there,' I called it.
Dorothy Parker
#16. Don't look back. You are never completely alone.
Daniel Silva
#17. When years from now people look back on today, they will think the same thing they already do but with more reasons for it.
Eugene Mirman
#18. You get a feeling when you look back on life that all God really wants from us is to live inside a body He made, and enjoy the story, and to bond with Him through the experience.
Donald Miller
#19. Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.
Lauren Oliver
#20. 'Twilight' is a phenomenon. And I'm so happy it's all captured on film. It's going to be something I'll always look back on, for sure.
Ashley Greene
#21. If you were to look back at me as a school kid you'd see a very quiet little church mouse kind of character.
John Lydon
#22. Does anybody regret leaving a hotel room? Does anybody, who has a home, a real home somewhere, want to stay there? Does anybody look back with affection, or even disgust, at a hotel room when they leave it?
Toni Morrison
#23. Williams said only half-jokingly of her career, "Once I'm done, I can look back and say, 'I didn't make a fool out of myself.' " By JULIET MACUR
Anonymous
#24. May you look back on the past with as much pleasure as you look forward to the future.
Paul Dickson
#25. Noahnoah, promise me something, one very last thing: once your good-bye is perfect, you have to leave me and not look back. Live your life. It's an awful thing to miss someone who's still here."
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
Fredrik Backman
#26. You don't want to look back and have any regrets because things are too hard.
Gabriel E. Gomez
#27. I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.
Amy Grant
#28. The key to accepting change is realizing the great things you have now, at this very moment in time, because one day I guarantee you'll look back on today and wish things were just as they are right now.
C.T. Wente
#29. He always did the leaving. But not this time. She kept walking, and did not look back.
Sarah Dessen
#30. When I look back on my life, I wonder how I survived - my mother said I had a guardian angel.
Micky Dolenz
#31. Life is to short so get on with it before its to late and you look back and wonder.
David Strouthos
#32. Christmas gives us the opportunity to pause and reflect on the important things around us - a time when we can look back on the year that has passed and prepare for the year ahead.
David Cameron
#33. Why does the past seem so magical, so fraught, so luminous? At the time it was just, ugh, another boring bloody day. But, to look back on, it's a day full of miracles and light and extraordinary events. Why is this? What process do we apply to the past, to give it this vividness? I don't know.
John Banville
#34. We look back, already, with astonishment, at the daring outrages committed by despotism, on the reason and rights of man; we look forward with joy, to the period, when it shall be despoiled of all its usurpations, and bound forever in the chains, with which it had loaded its miserable victims.
James Madison
#35. I look back and understand the world a bit better and know how competitive it is .
Bear Grylls
#36. There is a point at which everything becomes simple and there is no longer any question of choice, because all you have staked will be lost if you look back. Life's point of no return.
Dag Hammarskjold
#37. Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.
James Thurber
#38. Life is a series of tests; but if you pass your tests, you look back upon them as good experiences.
Peace Pilgrim
#39. For love must be a very foolish thing to look back upon, when it has brought persons born to affluence into indigence, and laid a generous mind under obligation and dependence.
Samuel Richardson
#40. I will fight in the United States Senate this year to fund a servicing mission to Hubble by 2008, a mission that would potentially increase Hubble's power and efficiency by a factor of 10 and allow us to look back almost to the beginning of the universe.
Barbara Mikulski
#41. When you're old, do you really want to look back at your life and realize that you were never young?
Kyra Davis
#42. I don't want to look back at my career and see a string of incredibly commercial projects that don't have much heart. I'm looking for things that have soul.
Taron Egerton
#43. The farther you look back, the farther you can look ahead.
Henry Ford
#44. Look back in life, just make sure your rolling forward first.
Aaron Lauritsen
#45. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come.
Nelson Mandela
#46. Because thee remains there, it is easier for me to go, for thee can be the shore I look back on, the star that remains fixed."
from "The Last Runaway
Tracy Chevalier
#47. Your heart's strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don't look back.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.
W.G. Sebald
#50. YOU ARE STRONGER AND BIGGER AND BRAVER THAN WHAT THEY DID, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO LET IT DEFINE YOU ANY LONGER. FORGIVE. LET GO. MOVE ON. DON'T LOOK BACK. YOUR NEW BEGINNING IS WAITING.
Mandy Hale
#51. When I look back, I was so mean to myself, and I was so uncomfortable in my own skin. I still feel that very loudly sometimes, but to try and really nurture that sense that you are your own friend.
Sara Bareilles
#52. There is no reason to look back, when there is so much good in front of you.
Always keep moving forward on your roads of life!
Timothy Pina
#53. The pages and the words are my world, spread out before your eyes and for your hand to touch. Vaguely, I can see you face looking down into me, as I look back. Do you see my eyes?
Markus Zusak
#54. Many people try to avoid looking back. To be sure, there is a wrong way to look back; it is wrong to look back at past sins and failures and defeats. That can only make you fail even more today. But it is good to look back to see where we have been and what the Lord has done in us and through us.
Warren W. Wiersbe
#55. You just have to keep trying to do good work, and hope that it leads to more good work. I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. Yes, I want to look back and know that I was terrible at a variety of things.
Jon Stewart
#56. Look back to the cross, and the disciples gazing on it in terror from afar, and then look around on the nations that are influenced by the faith that there centres
and note the change! Then take these elements, established in history, and calculate the orbit Christianity is to fill.
Richard Salter Storrs
#57. One day we're going to look back at $1,700 with nostalgia. People are going to be shocked at how inexpensive gold was when it could be snapped up for such a bargain price.
Peter Schiff
#58. Stories come to me and I don't know where they come from, but afterwards I can look back and say, 'Oh yes, that's got a little bit of me, or a little bit of my own son in it'. That's where ideas come from.
Anthony Browne
#59. I want to be able to look back and think that as long as I was going this, I did the best that I could.
Billy Corgan
#60. There were torn between wanting to look back and wanting to exist absolutely in the new life they'd created
Cristina Henriquez
#61. Life is about making good choices, Matt. One after the other. They pile up day after day. It's only when you look back that you can see what the choices led to. What you're able to stand on.
Chris Fabry
#62. Rather, the goal is that at the conclusion of our life, each of us can look back on the path we took and say not that we contributed to the creation of our small part but that we worked together, building on our relative strengths to create a greater, more sustainable whole.
Antony Bugg-Levine
#63. I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
Robert Downey Jr.
#64. The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
Abdallah II Of Jordan
#65. You know if we were to look back and how we were in 1955 living in Jim Crow, living in segregation, living in segregated schools, it's hard to believe that it was America, but it really was.
Anna Deavere Smith
#66. When my sitcom 'Miranda' first became successful, I was so in the thick of working and I was so stressed that I didn't really enjoy the moment. You suddenly look back and go, 'Gosh, you've just got to enjoy every day.' And now I wake up and literally pinch myself every day.
Miranda Hart
#67. To be mindful is to keep your thoughts in the present moment. A mindful person does not look back with regret or forward with worry.
Hannah Robbins
#68. 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
#69. You that in far-off countries of the sky can dwell secure, look back upon me here; for I am weary of this frail world's decay.
Murasaki Shikibu
#70. People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them.
Victor Hugo
#71. I have a tendency, after a play of mine is produced, to look back on it disparagingly, seeing only its faults; before production, I see only its virtues.
William Inge
#72. We know our job. We are grinders and we are physical and we need to make their (defense) look back over their shoulders.
Bob Boughner
#73. Live everyday as if it's your last, boys, and one day in the future when you look back, you'll have lived ten thousand lifetimes.
Steven Moore
#74. Look up, always. Look back, never.
Karen Quan
#75. I'm not really keen on comebacks. Eurythmics was an incredible thing. When I look back on that work, I feel very satisfied with it.
Annie Lennox
#76. I like playing the contrasting roles. It what inspires me to act. If I look back on my career I am happy that I have gotten to play a wide variety of different roles, from Mike Dexter, to Van Ray in Fast Lane, to Dr. Cullen to Coop.
Peter Facinelli
#77. maybe someday, you will look back and smile because it was all worth it
Samreena Ashraf
#78. You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.
Jenson Button
#79. I wear stuff I regret all the time. It's very rare that I look back at a picture and think it was all good.
Suki Waterhouse
#80. Past is a picture that has been viewed already, and there's nothing more to learn from it, so we need to stop looking at the same picture again and again and start making a better picture for the future, so that when someday we look back the picture's made by us, instead of regretting we cherish it.
Alamvusha
#81. An avalanche doesn't look back at the damage it causes.
Marty Rubin
#82. I don't look back. I don't live my life in the rear-view mirror because, if you do, you're bound to end up wrapped around a pole somewhere.
LL Cool J
#83. I think when we talk of craft we talk of a certain set of processes, whether that be clay of glass if jewelry or textiles, and we look back through history instantly.
Grayson Perry
#84. Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is a new beginning.
Kitt Weagant
#85. I want to be able to look back someday and say, "I did make a difference." Whether is was to open the minds of people to think that a woman can do a good job, or whether it's the fact that so many kids out there think that they could be like me.
Antonia Novello
#86. You look back on films sometimes and if they have not been as all-out successful as you anticipated you try to find reasons why maybe it didn't come off for audiences as well as you would have liked.
Robert Wise
#87. The decisions I've made have not always been the most popular, but when I look back, I want to know I've played for good football teams.
Alan Smith
#88. It's funny how, when you look back on the big things that have happened in your life, you realize that there were small things you might have done which would completely have changed the course of events.
Stuart Prebble
#89. I was that overachieving, annoying kid who was always trying to win some contest or win the role. I look back on it now and I'm like, "Chill, man." Calm down.
Mary Elizabeth Winstead
#90. If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
Patrick Wilson
#91. She'd never felt about anyone the way she'd felt about him. Not even close. She knew that when she got old it would be more fun to look back on a life of romance and adventure than a life of quiet habits. But looking back was easy. It was the doing that was painful.
Ann Brashares
#92. When we look back, the only things we cherish are those which in some way met our original want; the desire which formed in us in early youth, undirected, and of its own accord.
Willa Cather
#93. Do not look down, brooding over your weakness! Do not look back upon your past, strewn with failure! Look up to the living Christ!
F.B. Meyer
#94. Kings and marshals can look back and relive their triumphs, their great victories. We common folk must take what pleasure we can from life's little victories.
Raymond E. Feist
#95. Through my films I'm eventually trying to one day tell the truth. I don't know if I'm ever going to get there, but I'm slowly letting pieces of myself out there and then maybe by the time I'm 85, I'll look back and say, 'All right, that about sums it up.'
Adam Sandler
#96. There is certainly no greater happiness than to be able to look back on a life usefully and virtuously employed, to trace our own progress in existence, by such tokens as excite neither shame nor sorrow.
Samuel Johnson
#97. Can I look back over my walk with God and see very clearly that a sinful behavior I used to be caught up in is no longer an issue? Are there thoughts, attitudes, or habits that used to dominate my life but don't anymore? If you can answer yes, you're moving forward and upward with God.
Bruce H. Wilkinson
#98. I look back and half of Ramadan is over in the blink of an eye. Before I know I'll be saying that about my entire life
Nouman Ali Khan
#99. When you're living through them, events are nothing more than stuff that happens. You're not thinking about significance. Significance only comes when you look back at your life.
James Howe
#100. It's funny, how one can look back on a sorrow one thought one might well die of at the time, and know that one had not yet reckoned the tenth part of true grief.
Jacqueline Carey
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