Top 54 What Lies Behind You Quotes
#1. What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#2. To reach up for the new, you must let go of the old. What lies behind you is not nearly as important as what lies in front of you.
Joel Osteen
#3. What lies ahead of you & what lies behind you is nothing compared to what lies within you.
Mahatma Gandhi
#4. Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what lies behind you, reach out for what lies before you. Through the very change in which you lose what you have snatched up you will at last be transformed into what you crave for with such longing.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar
#6. The beauty of a move lies not in it's appearance but in the thought behind it.
Aron Nimzowitsch
#7. the whole philosophy behind this book is that true success lies in knowing your weaknesses and playing to your strengths. In short, when you suck at something and don't want it anyway, cut your losses and move on.
Sophia Amoruso
#8. Let's live to believe leaving all lies behind
Munia Khan
#9. Looking Backward was written in the belief that the Golden Age lies before us and not behind us.
Edward Bellamy
#10. What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.
Henry David Thoreau
#11. We do not want an expanding struggle with consequences, that no one can perceive, nor will we bluster or bully or flaunt our power, but we will not surrender and we will not retreat, for
behind our American pledge lies the determination and resources, I believe, of all of the American nation.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#12. Have no fear," the voice told her, "for in thee lies the hope of all. Only thou can deliver the land from darkness."
"How can I?" she asked. "I am just one against so many."
The eyes gleamed behind the dappling leaves. "Yet the smallest acorn may become the tallest oak," came the answer.
Robin Jarvis
#13. In the space between yes and no, there's a lifetime. It's the difference between the path you walk and the one you leave behind; it's the gap between who you thought you could be and who you really are; its the legroom for the lies you'll tell yourself in the future.
Jodi Picoult
#14. I leave behind this hurricane of f***ing lies
Green Day
#15. What ultimately lies behind the appeal of bureaucracy is fear of play.
David Graeber
#16. It is unwise, my child, to look too long behind you, else you will miss the future that lies before you.
Regan Walker
#17. Everyone stumbles through it all the same; the main difference lies not in the lack of dysfunction but in the desire to be dishonest about it. Every family has problems, but only some let you see them. The rest just keep their chaos behind closed doors and out of conversation.
Kevin Breel
#19. At the window he sits and looks out, musing on the river, a little brown hen duck paddling upstream among the windwaves close to the far bank. What he has understood lies behind him like a road in the woods. He is a wilderness looking out at the wild.
Wendell Berry
#20. The Skeptic's mistake lies in thinking that we should tie our hands behind our backs just because we will not be able to reach rock-hard conclusions.
Frederick Mosteller
#21. The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.
E. M. Forster
#22. In Lakefield View, everybody has a secret. Behind every smile lies a dark story. Behind every hello is a hidden goodbye.
Gavin Hetherington
#23. And in another year everything will be different yet again. It is always like that, and always will be; you are forever standing on the brink, in a place where you cannot see ahead; there is nothing of which to be certain except what lies behind. This should be terrifying, but somehow it is not.
Penelope Lively
#24. What lies behind us may be mighty. What lies before us may be mightier. But what lies within us is the mightiest of all! Christ within us is the hope of Glory!
Israelmore Ayivor
#25. It will never fade, Alina. It will only grow worse, no matter how many scarves you hide behind or what lies you tell, no matter how far or fast you run.
Leigh Bardugo
#26. I'd guess that what's behind you is much more than what lies ahead, though you have a way to go yet.
Dean Koontz
#27. I don't feel like I need to tell any lies. You get to an age where you get tired of hiding behind whatever people think is correct. You just say what you have to say, and if they don't like it, it's OK.
Betty Wright
#28. If you focus on what you left behind, you'll never be able to see what lies ahead.
Remi Gaillard
#29. If you can identify a delusional popular belief, you can find what lies hidden behind it: the contrarian truth.
Peter Thiel
#30. A need for approval lies behind all efforts of evangelism. If someone else can be convinced, that will show us that we are on the right path. The attempt to convince someone of anything is a mark of insecurity. (173)
Ravi Ravindra
#31. Mrs. Gruber said that happiness was not something she aspired to, that when we had seen as much of the world as she had, we would know that what lies right behind the horseshit is not a prize pony, my dears, it's more horseshit.
Amy Bloom
#33. The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.
Swami Vivekananda
#35. I create lies for people in order for them to find something true about themselves. I teach people that lies are doors that opens up to truth. Either you accept the lie, or you run away from it, thus, eliminating the meaning behind it, and what is could have accomplished.
Lionel Suggs
#36. Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
Oscar Levant
#37. Behind this judicial wall of separation there is a tyranny of lies that will fall ... I say to you, my friends, let it fall!
Fob James
#38. Behind every sucessful person lies a pack of haters
Eminem
#39. Depend upon it, behind all great achievement there lies great toil: nothing that is worth doing is done easily.
Stephen Mansfield
#40. Motive lies behind action. It is the root of behaviour and attitude, the fuel we need to progress from desire to achievement. In our humanity we are driven to survive, and to be loved makes the living worthwhile.
Sarah Tun
#41. Paul Bowles said, "The sky hides the night behind it, and shelters the people beneath from the horror that lies above." Joseph
Mort Castle
#42. We should remember that science exists only because there are people, and its concepts exist only in the minds of men. Behind these concepts lies the reality which is being revealed to us, but only by the grace of God.
Wernher Von Braun
#43. forgetting what lies behind and reaching forward to what lies ahead, I press on toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.
Kim Cash Tate
#44. We are prone to see what lies behind our eyes, rather than what apprears before them.
Thomas Huxley
#45. There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'
Nelson Mandela
#46. Behind this smile in my face
Lies the dark shadow of emptiness
Hiding from your eyes within my gaze
Concealed with sham happiness.
Alexia Chase
#47. Behind the curtain's mystic fold The glowing future lies unrolled.
Neil Gaiman
#48. After rain comes sunshine; After darkness comes the glorious dawn. There is no sorrow without its alloy of joy; there is no joy without its admixture of sorrow. Behind the ugly terrible mask of misfortune lies the beautiful soothing countenance of prosperity. So, tear the mask!
Obafemi Awolowo
#49. May what lies ahead of this warrior or behind him never take from me what is inside of him, for it is mine.
Amy A. Bartol
#50. All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.
Arthur Rimbaud
#51. Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.
Stanislaw Lem
#52. Walk with me, memory to memory, the shared path, the mutual view. Walk with me. The past lies in wait. It is not behind. It seems to be in front. How else could it trip me as as I start to run?
Jeanette Winterson
#53. I dream of where I am, and what lies before me. I do not dream of where I've been or what I've left behind. I tell myself that this is what I've wanted from the moment I was captured, and that I should be happy.
Lauren DeStefano
#54. I have suggested that behind almost all myth lies the mono-plot of the game of hide-and-seek.
Alan Watts
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