Behind You Quotes - Page 7

• It was my mother who taught me the one worthwhile thing: when they ask if you like what you see in the mirror, pretend that what they mean is what's behind you--the shower curtain, the tile, the wallpaper, whatever's there.

  Gary Lutz

  Mother, Mean, Mirrors

  Gary Lutz (2002). “Stories in the Worst Way”, 3rd Bed Books

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• When you walk through that door of opportunity you don't slam it shut behind you.

  Michelle Obama

  Opportunity, Doors, Slam

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• I write and sing about whatever I am able to understand and feel. I feel that it is healthier to look out at the world through a window than through a mirror. Otherwise, all you see is yourself and whatever is behind you.

  Bill Withers

  Writing, Mirrors, Looks

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• Perfume follows you; it chases you and lingers behind you. It's a reference mark. Perfume makes silence talk.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Silence, Perfume, Mark

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• Upon retiring, sleep as if you had entered your last sleep. Upon awakening, leave your bed behind you instantly as if you had cast away a pair of old shoes.

  Soyen Shaku

  Sleep, Shoes, Lasts

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• Keep your goals in front of you, and your fears behind you.

  Tony Robbins

  Goal, Behinds, Fronts

  FaceBook post by Tony Robbins from Dec 30, 2016

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• Show kindness whenever possible. Show it to the people in front of you, the people coming up behind you, and the people with whom you are running neck and neck. It will vastly improve the quality of your own life, the lives of others, and the state of the world.

  Ann Patchett

  Running, Kindness, People

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• Your most important work is always ahead of you, never behind you.

  Stephen Covey

  Important, Behinds, Important Work

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• Adam Nevill a spine-chiller in the classic tradition, a writer who draws you in from the world of the familiar, eases you into the world of terror, and then locks the door behind you. The House of Small Shadows grows darker and takes on more menacing life with each step forward.

  Michael Koryta

  Doors, House, Shadow

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• Everybody does stupid things in life. Some of us more than others. You think you're going to get away with it. Or one or both of you just stop thinking. But it happens. And when it does, you can keep drinking it like poison, or you can put it behind you and go make the most of the rest of your life.

  Claire Cook

  Stupid, Drinking, Thinking

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  If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!

  Maya Angelou

  Positive Attitude, Looks, Path

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jan 19, 2011

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• 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

  Letting Go, Lying, Important

  Joel Osteen (2012). “It's Your Time: Finding Favour, Restoration and Abundance in Your Everyday Life”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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• Go forth in confidence and go forth in peace. For there are angels to your left and angels to your right; angels in front of you and angels behind you; angels above you and angels below. You are loved, and you are not alone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Angel, Behinds, Left

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Jun 17, 2011

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• As an English player you are lifted when the crowd gets behind you. The atmosphere over here can be unsettling for the Australian players and I hope all our fans get behind us.

  Gareth Ellis

  Player, Rugby League, Atmosphere

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• The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.

  Freya Stark

  Travel, Latches, Beckoning

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• There is a great line of women stretching out behind you into the past, and you have to seek them out and find them in yourself and be conscious of them.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, Past, Lines

  Doris May Lessing (1994). “The Golden Notebook”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Love means total interest; love means total creativity; love means total input. Who has that for you? Who has given you values? Who has given you character? Who has told you, "Stand for righteousness and I'll stand behind you"?

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Love, Family, Creativity

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• I would rather speak the truth to ten men than blandishments and lying to a million. Try it, ye who think there is nothing in it! Try what it is to speak with God behind you, to speak so as to be only the arrow in the bow which the Almighty draws.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Truth, Lying, Men

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.78

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• I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you.

  Amadeo Giannini

  Responsibility, Men, Organization

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• I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.

  Stefan Edberg

  Athlete, Feelings, Crowds

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• Bliss is the ocean, a towel on the sand, the sun out, the chance to swim in waves or walk dragging a stick behind you, a good book, a cold drink.

  Deb Caletti

  Ocean, Book, Swim

  Powell’s Books Interview, debcaletti.com. 2007.

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• The heart of Paris is like nothing so much as the unending interior of a house. Buildings become furniture, courtyards become carpets and arrases, the streets are like galleries, the boulevards conservatories. It is a house, one or two centuries old, rich, bourgeois, distinguished. The only way of going out, or shutting the door behind you, is to leave the centre.

  John Berger

  Heart, Doors, Two

  John Berger (2011). “Keeping a Rendezvous”, p.101, Vintage

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• If in physics there's something you don't understand, you can always hide behind the uncharted depths of nature. You can always blame God. You didn't make it so complex yourself. But if your program doesn't work, there is no one to hide behind. You cannot hide behind an obstinate nature. If it doesn't work, you've messed up.

  Edsger Dijkstra

  Depth, Blame, Physics

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• Go where no one's gone and leave a trail of excellence behind you.

  Robin Sharma

  Success, Excellence, Gone

  FaceBook post by Robin Sharma from Jun 03, 2011

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• But there's a beginning in an end, you know? It's true that you can't reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.

  Alexandra Bracken

  New Beginnings, Locks, Ends

  Alexandra Bracken (2016). “The Darkest Minds”, p.78, Hachette UK

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