Look Backward Quotes
22 quotes by 20 authors
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People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.
— Edmund Burke
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A holiday gives one a chance to look backward and forward; to reset oneself by an inner compass.
— May Sarton
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And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.
— Robert Frost
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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
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Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.
— Dorothy L. Sayers
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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
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Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.
— E. Lynn Harris
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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
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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
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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
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... 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
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Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.
— Michel de Montaigne
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It's also not unusual for writers to look backward. Because that's your pool of resources.
— Paul McCartney
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I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.
— Iggy Pop
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I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.
— James Van Praagh
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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
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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
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I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.
— Jim Coleman
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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
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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: