Looking Back Quotes

• Wisdom is looking back at your life and realising that every single event, person, place and idea was part of the perfected experience you needed to build your dream. Not one was a mistake.

  John Frederick Demartini

  Dream, Mistake, Ideas

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• Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

  Robert Breault

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• In looking back, I see nothing to regret, and little to correct.

  John C. Calhoun

  Regret, Littles, Regret Nothing

  "Correspondence of John C. Calhoun" edited by William Pinkney Starke, (p. 569), 1900.

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• You live life looking forward, you understand life looking backward.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Live Life, Looking Forward

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• Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

  Dan Millman

  Blessing, Clarity, Difficulty

  Dan Millman (1992). “No Ordinary Moments: A Peaceful Warrior's Guide to Daily Life”, p.40, H J Kramer

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• Looking back at my life's voyage, I can only say that it has been a golden trip.

  Ginger Rogers

  Travel, Voyages, Golden

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The years go by. The time, it does fly. Every single second is a moment in time that passes. And it seems like nothing - but when you're looking back ... well, it amounts to everything.

  Ray Bradbury

  Life, Years, Doe

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• It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

  Bonnie Blair

  Memories, Done, Knows

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards.

  Steve Jobs

  Change, Success, Trust

  Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

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• Yes, I'm looking at you, looking at me, looking at you, looking at me, looking back at you.

  Sammy Hagar

  Explanation

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• When the most important times are occurring, we don't even recognize them or notice. We are just busy living our lives. Only looking back do we know what was a great moment in our lives.

  Federico Fellini

  Important, Busy, Moments

  Federico Fellini, Charolette Chandler (2001). “I, Fellini”, p.37, Cooper Square Press

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• Strange, how the best moments of our lives we scarcely notice except in looking back.

  Joe Abercrombie

  Strange, Moments, Our Lives

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• Too much looking backward ... is bad for progress.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Progress, Too Much

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  Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.

  Edna Ferber

  Lonely, Past, People

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• I'm tipping the hat and looking back.

  Robert Plant

  Tipping, Hats

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• Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life- and it was you. It is not too late to find that person again.

  Robert Breault

  Special, Too Late, Realizing

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• You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward.

  Lucy Liu

  Looks, Looking Forward

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• Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done.

  T. B. Joshua

  Done, Traps, Glorify

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• Often the deep valleys of our PRESENT will be UNDERSTOOD only by LOOKING BACK on them from the mountains of our FUTURE experience. Often we can’t see the LORD’S HAND in our lives until long after the trials have passed. Often the most difficult times of our lives are ESSENTIAL building blocks that form the FOUNDATION of our CHARACTER and pave the way to FUTURE opportunity, understanding, and happiness.

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Block, Character, Opportunity

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• I always knew looking back on my tears would bring me laughter, but I never knew looking back on my laughter would make me cry.

  Cat Stevens

  Love, Happiness, Laughter

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• Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

  Ray Stannard Baker

  Love, Positive, Heartbreak

  David Grayson, Ray Stannard Baker (1942). “Under My Elm: Country Discoveries and Reflections”, Garden City, N.Y. : Doubleday, Doran

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• They say not to look back, but if you’re not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Lying, Looks, Not Sure

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• There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.

  Wayne Dyer

  Motivational, Mirrors, Boss

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• STOP looking back!!!! When your past calls do NOT pick up!! it has nothing new to say.

  Joseph Simmons

  Past, Rapper, African American

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• You can almost measure where you are in life by the degree to which you have begun looking back rather than ahead.

  Ted Koppel

  Degrees, Where You Are In Life, Where You Are

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