Look Backward Quotes

22 quotes by 20 authors

• People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors. — Edmund Burke
• A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass. — May Sarton
• And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope. — Robert Frost
• We look backward too much and we look forward too much; thus we miss the only eternity of which we can be absolutely sure -… — M. William Phelps
• Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age. — Dorothy L. Sayers
• 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… — Margaret Barber
• Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward. — E. Lynn Harris
• Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than… — Friedrich Nietzsche
• The book, the college, the school of art, the institution of any kind, stop with some past utterance of genius. . . . They look… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner,… — John Crowe Ransom
• ... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I… — Alfred de Musset
• Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward. — Michel de Montaigne
• It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources. — Paul McCartney
• I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward. — Iggy Pop
• I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret. — James Van Praagh
• It was funny how the old practices always came around again. It was the rhythm of human enterprise to invent and worship some new approach,… — Ann Brashares
• To me it's a question of being able to look backward and give the present a root... To give meaning to where we are today,… — Richard Leakey
• I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward. — Jim Coleman
• A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look… — Edmund Burke
• A good plan today is better than a great plan of tomorrow! Look backward with satisfaction and look forward with confidence. — Anurag Prakash Ray

Who Wrote These Look Backward Quotes

20 authors contributed a total of 22 Look Backward Quotes as follows:

• 2 Look Backward Quotes by Pacifiersucker
• 2 Look Backward Quotes by Edmund Burke
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Iggy Pop
• 1 Look Backward Quote by James Van Praagh
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Ann Brashares
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Richard Leakey
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Jim Coleman
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Anurag Prakash Ray
• 1 Look Backward Quote by May Sarton
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Robert Frost
• 1 Look Backward Quote by M. William Phelps
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Margaret Barber
• 1 Look Backward Quote by E. Lynn Harris
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
• 1 Look Backward Quote by John Crowe Ransom
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Alfred de Musset
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Michel de Montaigne
• 1 Look Backward Quote by Paul McCartney