Backward Quotes

439 quotes by 383 authors

Because in life, the question is not if you will have problems, but how you are going to deal with them. Stop failing backward and… — John C. Maxwell
There's no backward and no forward, no day other than this. You fill your cart as you go, and that's that. — John Burnham Schwartz
While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward. — Robert Breault
Don't think you can attain total awareness and whole enlightenment without proper discipline and practice. This is egomania. Appropriate rituals channel your emotions and life… — Laozi
We will be able to travel backward or forward in time and see what has been and what is going to be, as well as… — David Berg
It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,'… — Adela Popescu
Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. — Michel de Montaigne
Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate… — William Shakespeare
The ideal of self-advancement which the civilizing west offers to backward populations brings with it the plague of individual frustration. All the advantages brought by… — Eric Hoffer
Amazingly, much of the best cartoon work was done early on in the medium's history. The early cartoonists, with no path before them, produced work… — Bill Watterson
Who sees pale Mammom pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor. — Alexander Pope
Learn the backward step that turns your light inward to illuminate your self. Body and mind of themselves will drop away, and your original face… — Dogen
A work of art rests its merits in traditional qualities. It may constitute a remarkable feat in craftsmanship; it may be a searching study of… — Ben Shahn
Russia, Russia-unwashed, backward, appealing Russia, so ashamed of your own backwardness, so orientally determined to conceal it from us by clever deceit. — George F. Kennan
This contest between the secular and religious visions of government is really the main choice to be made. It won't be decided in one election,… — Adnan Pachachi
In your life's defining moments there are two choices - you either step forward in faith and power or you step backward into fear. — James Arthur Ray
Take one step backward into the unknown. — Adyashanti
Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead; that is where your future lies. Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't… — Ann Landers
With smoking axle hot with speed, with steeds of fire and steam, Wide-waked To-day leaves Yesterday behind him like a dream. Still, from the hurrying… — John Greenleaf Whittier
Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back… — Joe Bradley

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