Back Upon Quotes

84 quotes by 70 authors

Pride looks back upon its past deeds, and calculating with nicety what it has done, it commits itself to rest; whereas humility looks to that… — James McCosh
In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah!… — Edgar Allan Poe
Looking back upon my work today, I think the best I have done grew out of things deeply felt, the worst from a pride in… — Diego Rivera
Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly… — Swami Vivekananda
Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try… — Charles Sheldon
Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions and examples afforded… — Saint Francis de Sales
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous… — Arthur C. Clarke
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to… — Alfred Russel Wallace
The more things a man is interested in, the more opportunities of happiness he has and the less he is at the mercy of fate,… — Bertrand Russell
Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead. — Swami Vivekananda
Threads that drift alone will sometimes simply twine themselves together, without need for spindle or distaff: brought into each otherâ€™s ambit, they bind themselves tight… — Jo Baker
Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place… — Swami Vivekananda
Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains… — Hudson Stuck
Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more… — Mark Twain
All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it… — H. L. Mencken
Death is always sad, I suppose, to us who look forward to it: I expect it will seem very different when we can look back… — Lewis Carroll
The future is an unknown, but a somewhat predictable unknown. To look to the future we must first look back upon the past. That is… — Albert Einstein
We should be most careful about retreating from the specific challenge of our age. We should be reluctant to turn our back upon the frontier… — James A. Michener
The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating… — Swami Vivekananda
It is as good as second life to be able to look back upon our past life with pleasure — Martial

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