He who does not know how to look back at where he came from will never get to his destination.
— Jose Rizal
Revolutionary Looking Back quotations
Through thickest gloom look back, immortal shade, On that confusion which thy death has made.
Do not look back, No one knows how the world ever began.
Do not fear the future, Nothing lasts forever. If you dwell on the past or future, You will miss the moment.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
Somewhere behind the athlete you've become and the hours of practice and the coaches who have pushed you is a little girl who fell in love with the game and never looked back... play for her.
There are many things that, if I have to relive, maybe I will do it another way.
But I would not like to look back and think what I have not been able to.
Love is our only reason for living and the only purpose of life.
We live for the sake of love, and we live seeking love... it is not surprising that we keep looking for love. All of us are nothing but vibrations of love. We are sustained by love, and in the end we merge back into love.
Isn't it funny how day by day nothing changes, but when you look back, everything is different.
We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we've cleared the way.
Life is good to those who know how to live.
I do not ever hope to accumulate great funds of worldly wealth, but I shall accumulate something far more valuable, a store of wonderful memories. When I reach the twilight of life I shall look back and say I'm glad I lived as I did, life has been good to me.
I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.
Good memories are like charms...Each is special. You collect them, one by one, until one day you look back and discover they make a long, colorful bracelet.
I have no intention of retaliating or looking backwards.
We are going to forget the past and look forward to the future.
I guess that is what dying must be like;
to be finished and to be able to look back at the struggles of life, and know that God was your constant companion.
The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who ran in the New York Marathon. It was then I decided to meet this new challenge head on and not only overcome my disability, but conquer it in such a way that I could never look back and say it disabled me.
Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
No matter what you've done for yourself or for humanity, if you can't look back on having given love and attention to your own family, what have you really accomplished?
The spirit of complaint is born out of an unwillingness to trust God with today.
Like the Israelites, it means you are spending your time looking back toward Egypt or wishing for the future all the while missing what God is doing right now.
I don't think I've ever stepped into a gym - they won't let me smoke there.
I just thank God Miller Lite isn't as fattening as most beers. If I cut back on beer, though, I'd look anorexic.
When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness.
Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.
Avoid the trap of looking back unless it is to glorify God for what He has done.
Sorrow looks back, Worry looks around, Faith looks up
I look into eyes, shake their hand, pat their back, and wish them luck, but I am thinking, I am going to bury you.
Simplify your life. Don't waste the years struggling for things that are unimportant. Don't burden yourself with possessions. Keep your needs and wants simple and enjoy what you have. Don't destroy your peace of mind by looking back, worrying about the past. Live in the present. Simplify!
Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him.
I came seriously close to getting married four times, and each time I backed off in fear or for one reason or another. Each occasion was different, but in hindsight when I look at the people involved, it wasn't a bad thing what I did. I think it may have been more complex had the marriage taken place.
One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.
One day we will look back and realize that the Barack Obama Presidency was the biggest fraud ever perpetrated on the American people.
Some mornings you wake up and think, gee I look handsome today.
Other days I think, what am I doing in the movies? I wanna go back to Ireland and drive a forklift.
Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Go back in time. Next question go and look at dinosaurs. I would be sitting on a rock looking at a T- Rex, loving life.