Aren't you ashamed, you who walk backward along the whole path of existence, and blame me for walking backward along the path of the promenade? — Diogenes
We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan
But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts. — Megan Hart
It’s always easier for people to face backward than to face forward. — Martha C. Nussbaum
I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time. — Syd Barrett
Don't look back - you're not going that way. — Unknown Author
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start. — Dan Millman
We go forward looking in the rearview mirror. — Marshall McLuhan
He who tip-toes cannot stand; he who strides cannot walk. — Lao Tzu
Short Backwardness Quotes
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. — Soren Kierkegaard
You will either step forward into growth, or you will step backward into safety. — Abraham Maslow
Nursing is a progressive art such that to stand still is to go backwards. — Florence Nightingale
Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward. — E. E. cummings
I wanted to get a tape recorder, but I got a parrot instead. I think I did that joke backwards. — Mitch Hedberg
I do everything the man does, only backwards and in high heels! — Ginger Rogers
Honestly, if you were any slower, you’d be going backward. — J. K. Rowling
Walk Slowly, but Never Backward — James Clear
Scholars who write of Moscow facing an “uncooperative world economy” have it exactly backward. — Stephen Kotkin
Talent without discipline is like an octopus on roller skates — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Backwardness Image Quotes
Optimist is someone who figures that taking a step backward after a step forward is not a disaster, it's more like a cha-cha.
Going Backward Quotes
Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward. — T. D. Jakes
I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards. We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future. — Jomo Kenyatta
All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be content when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases. — Chief Joseph
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
The only way to keep from going backward is to keep going forward. Eternal vigilance is the price of success. There are three steps, and each one is absolutely essential. You must first have the knowledge of your power; second, the courage to dare; third, the faith to do. — Charles F. Haanel
Let me hear the music. I'ma let the music instruct me on which way to go. Forwards, backwards, left, right. It's like boxing. I'm only as strong as my opponent. — Kevin Gates
When I was fourteen and first started going out, I always wanted to be the opposite of everyone else. So I would go to the club in a polo T-shirt and pants and sneakers and a hat on backward, just so I would not be dressed like other girls. — Rihanna
I have a daughter and I have granddaughters and I will never vote to let a group of backward-looking ideologues cut women's access to birth control. We have lived in that world, and we are not going back, not ever — Elizabeth Warren
Going back to a simpler life based on living by sufficiency rather than excess is not a step backward. Rather, returning to a simpler way allows us to regain our dignity, puts us in touch with the land, and makes us value human contact again. — Yvon Chouinard
Never go backward. Attempt, and do it with all your might. Determination is power. — Charles Simmons
Walking Forward Quotes
If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Keep my planets in orbit,
Never forfeit or quit,
Move forward...
I talk with the awkward slang,
I walk with the Wu-Tang. — RZA
Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. — Nelson Mandela
Run forward when possible, walk ahead when you can, stagger onward when you must, but never cease your forward movement. — Vernon Howard
I am looking forward to going to Dubai because it gives us an opportunity to interact with each other. We can sit and enjoy each other's company. We can go out for a walk without worrying about shooting schedules. — Amitabh Bachchan
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. — Franklin D. Roosevelt
Just put one foot in front of the other. — Austin Peck
Hope is the denial of reality. It is the carrot dangled before the draft horse to keep him plodding along in a vain attempt to reach it." "Are you saying we shouldn't hope?" "I'm saying we should remove the carrot and walk forward with our eyes open! — Margaret Weis
Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward. — Chris Gardner
Just smiling at someone walking down the street can make the person's day. It's all about paying it forward. — Mariska Hargitay
Forward And Backward Quotes
It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. — Louis Sachar
A strange thing is memory, and hope; one looks backward, and the other forward; one is of today, the other of tomorrow. Memory is history recorded in our brain, memory is a painter, it paints pictures of the past and of the day. — Grandma Moses
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 of looking forward. — Margaret Fairless Barber
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 of looking forward. — Margaret Barber
The helicopter appeared so reluctant to fly forward that we even considered turning the pilot's seat around and letting it fly backward. — Igor Sikorsky
Life swings like a pendulum backward and forward between pain and boredom. — Arthur Schopenhauer
The meaning of conservatism is not that it impedes movement forward and upward, but that it impedes movement backwards and downwards—to chaotic darkness and the return to a primitive state. — Nikolai Berdyaev
Change is non-linear and can go backwards, forwards and sideways — Alvin Toffler
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. — Steve Jobs
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
Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. — Saddam Hussein
The oil is a gift bestowed by God on the Arab nation, to use after centuries of poverty, backwardness and servitude - in raising its living standards, developing its economic, social and cultural conditions, and building up its own power to meet the challenges and conspiracies besetting it. — Saddam Hussein
Not to sound corny, but intelligence is big. Everything fades, and everything can be modified. But intelligence is something you cant fake. Im not even talking about whether you can read a thesaurus backwards. But there is a beauty in common sense. — Wale
The complete emancipation of women from the ties which held them back in the past, during the ages of despotism and ignorance, is a basic aim of the Party and the Revolution. Women make up one half of society. Our society will remain backward and in chains unless its women are liberated, enlightened and educated. — Saddam Hussein
I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method. — Yoweri Museveni
After all, Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did. She just did it backwards and in high heels. — Ann Richards
You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick. — David Gilmour
Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another, unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made of layers, cells, constellations. — Anais Nin
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life. — Steve Jobs
My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it—all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary—but love it — Friedrich Nietzsche
Have you ever watched a crab on the shore crawling backward in search of the Atlantic Ocean, and missing? That's the way the mind of man operates. — H. L. Mencken
Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. — A. A. Milne
When people ask about the meaning of life as if it were the job of our cosmos to give meaning to our existence, they’re getting it backward: It’s not our Universe giving meaning to conscious beings, but conscious beings giving meaning to our Universe. — Max Tegmark
It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length. — Helen Keller
If you wear Gucci, drive a Benz, or own a Rolex but don't have a rental property or an investment portfolio, you're hustling backward. You're product rich, not actually rich. — Jaspreet Singh
We can no longer stand at the end of something we visualized in detail and plan backwards from that future. Instead we must stand at the beginning, clear in our mind, with a willingness to be involved in discovery... it asks that we participate rather than plan. — Margaret J. Wheatley
The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes. — Ray Bradbury
Ever wonder about those people who spend $2 apiece on those little bottles of Evian water? Try spelling Evian backward. — George Carlin
You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession. — John Huston
So okay, I don't want to be a traitor to my generation and all, but I don't get how guys dress today. I mean, come on, it looks like they just fell out of bed and put on some baggy pants and take their greasy hair-ew!-and cover it up with a backwards cap and like, we're expected to swoon? I don't think so. — Cher
In my next life I want to live backwards. Start out dead and finish off as an orgasm. — Woody Allen
Every cool riff has already been written by Black Sabbath. You're either playing it faster or slower or backwards, but they wrote it first. — Rob Zombie
Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly. — Ellsworth Huntington
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