124 Rearview Mirror Quotes

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Famous Rearview Mirror Quotes

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it. — Dudley Moore

We go forward looking in the rearview mirror. — Marshall McLuhan

The hood ornament on your car is for telling you where you're going. The rear-view-mirror is for showing you how good you look while you're getting there. — David Lee

Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror. — Colin Powell

We can’t really look back and see what is in the rear-view mirror. This is not how you are going to move forward. — Didier Deschamps

Looking back in front of me, in the mirror a grin. Through eyes of love I see, I'm only looking at a friend. — Stevie Ray Vaughan

We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan

Management by results - like driving a car by looking in rear view mirror. — W. Edwards Deming

I have only one eye. Do you want me to look at the road or the at the speedometer. — Moshe Dayan

The best mirror is an old friend. — Peter Nivio Zarlenga

The best mirror is an old friend. — George Herbert

If life is just a highway, then the soul is just a car. And objects in the rear view mirror may appear closer than they are. — Jim Steinman

The only time you should look back is to see how far you've come. — MrBeast

I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me. — Rumi

Don't look back - you're not going that way. — Unknown Author

Short Rearview Mirror Quotes

  • Mirrors work magic. Repeat the last three words — Chris Voss
  • The mirror is not you. The mirror is you looking at yourself. — George Balanchine
  • What's behind you doesn't matter. — Enzo Ferrari
  • Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind. — Laird Hamilton
  • When I notice a rear wheel overtaking me, I know I'm sitting in a Lotus. — Graham Hill
  • Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. — Rudyard Kipling
  • Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road. — Jack Kerouac
  • The mirror reflects all objects without being sullied — Confucius
  • Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mirrors should think longer before they reflect. — Jean Cocteau

Rearview Mirror Image Quotes

Rearview mirror quote Look in the mirror... that's your competition.
Look in the mirror... that's your competition.

Rear View Mirror Quotes

The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future. — Marshall McLuhan

Your future starts today. Don’t go through life looking in the rearview mirror. Your life is filled with possibility. — Joel Osteen

You do not move ahead by constantly looking in a rear view mirror. The past is a rudder to guide you, not an anchor to drag you. We must learn from the past but not live in the past. — Warren W. Wiersbe

Rearview mirror quote If you're searching for the one person who can change your life... take a look in the mirror.
If you're searching for the one person who can change your life... take a look in the mirror.

In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come. — Roger Waters

The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of. — Marshall McLuhan

Running a company on market research is like driving while looking in the rear view mirror. — Anita Roddick

Rearview mirror quote If you are searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.
If you are searching for that one person that will change your life, take a look in the mirror.

I'm paranoid. On my stationary bike, I have a rear view mirror. — Richard Lewis

You can drive a car by looking in the rear view mirror as long as nothing is ahead of you. Not enough software professionals are engaged in forward thinking. — Bill Joy

Justice is expensive in America. There are no Free Passes... You might want to remember this, the next time you get careless and blow off a few Parking Tickets. They will come back to haunt you the next time you see a Cop car in your rear-view mirror. — Hunter S. Thompson

Even though I'm proud by dad invented the rear-view mirror, we're not as close as we appear. — Stewart Francis

Rearview Quotes

The best way to get even with anyone is to put them in the rearview mirror on your way to something better. — Joe Hill

Look in the rearview mirror long enough & you'll see that God has purposely positioned you everywhere you've been-even when it seemed you'd taken a wrong turn. — Mark Batterson

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. And I've an inkling that there are times when we need to drive a long, long distance, before we can look back and see God's back in the rearview mirror. Maybe sometimes about as far as heaven -- that kind of distance. — Ann Voskamp

Rearview mirror quote Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror.
Beauty starts in your head, not in your mirror.

Speed damages our souls because living fast consumes every ounce of our energy. Speed has a deafening roar that drowns our the whispering voices of our souls and leaves Jesus as a diminishing speck in the rearview mirror. — Mike Yaconelli

In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield. — Warren Buffett

The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind. — Ronald Reagan

Rearview mirror quote Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.
Let the waters settle and you will see the moon and the stars mirrored in your own being.

You can't see the future through a rearview mirror — Peter Lynch

I love driving, but sometimes, I'm not too good at it because I spend too much time looking in the rearview mirror if I know I'm being followed. You don't respond like, 'Oh, there's paparazzi.' It's more like, 'There's a man, and he's going to attack me.' That's how your body responds. — Ashley Olsen

God reveals Himself in rearview mirrors. — Ann Voskamp

We drive into the future using only our rearview mirror. — Marshall McLuhan

Rear Window Quotes

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy? — Thelma Ritter

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. — Paul Fussell

Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. — John Michael Hayes

Rearview mirror quote Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word. — Mose Allison

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month. — John Michael Hayes

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics. — John Michael Hayes

Rearview mirror quote Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.
Always focus on the front windshield and not the review mirror.

... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge. — Karen Tayleur

Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo. — J. K. Rowling

Hell, when I was in high school, a "drive-by shooting" meant somebody had their rear end hanging out a car window! — Jeff Foxworthy

I'm not much into rear window ethics. — Alfred Hitchcock

Mirror Reflection Quotes

The mirror is a worthless invention. The only way to truly see yourself is in the reflection of someone else's eyes. — Voltaire

Dear friend, Your heart is a polished mirror. You must wipe it dean of the veil of dust that has gathered upon it, because it is destined to reflect the light of divine secrets. — Al-Ghazali

Do you know what you are? You are a manuscript oƒ a divine letter. You are a mirror reflecting a noble face. This universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself; everything that you want, you are already that. — Rumi

Rearview mirror quote There are two way of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
There are two way of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed. — Indra Devi

There are two ways of spreading light: to be The candle or the mirror that reflects it. — Edith Wharton

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. - Ernest Holmes

Life is a mirror and will reflect back to the thinker what he thinks into it. — Ernest Holmes

The more souls who resonate together, the greater the intensity of their love... and, mirror-like... each soul reflects the other. — Dante Alighieri

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. — Edith Wharton

Our words reveal our thoughts; our manners mirror our self-esteem; our actions reflect our character; our habits predict the future. — William Arthur Ward

Sunlight is one and the same wherever it falls; but only a bright surface like that of water, or of a mirror reflects it fully. So is the light Divine. It falls equally and impartially on all hearts, but the pure and pious hearts of holy men receive and reflect that light well. — Ramakrishna

Look In The Mirror Quotes

You ask me 'What’s the the greatest act of faith?' To me is to look in the mirror of God’s word, and see all my faults, all my sin, all my shortcomings and to believe that God loves me exactly as he says he does. — Paul Washer

Once I looked in the mirror and decided this is who I am, and I'm not scared of who I am, and I'm not scared that I can't be like you, and I'm good with just doing me, that's when I found myself, as a man. — Kendrick Lamar

I think that we'll continue to try to look at ourselves in the mirror and see where we can do a better job, maybe where we can improve the process. But I think the fundamentals of the process will remain the same. — Bill Belichick

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows. - Mason Cooley

When Medusa looks in the mirror, she sees the Lady of Sorrows. — Mason Cooley

A lot of people, black, white, mexican, young or old, fat or skinny have a problem being true to they self. They have a problem looking in the mirror and looking directly into their own souls. Only reason I am who I am today is because I can look directly into my face and find my soul — Tupac Shakur

You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror. — Lil Wayne

When you look in the mirror what do you see? Do you see the real you, or what you have been conditioned to believe is you? — David Icke

When I look in the mirror I see the girl I was when I was growing up, with braces, crooked teeth, a baby face and a skinny body. — Heather Locklear

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave. — Lennart Meri

When I look in the mirror and the only one there is me Every freckle on my face is where it’s suppose to be And I know my creator didn’t make no mistakes on me My feet, my thighs, my Lips, my eyes, I’m loving what I see — India.Arie

Looking In The Mirror Quotes

When the game is over I just want to look at myself in the mirror, win or lose, and know I gave it everything I had. — Joe Montana

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. — Steve Jobs

I learned early on, having known the most handsome, successful, Gary Cooper, Clark Gable, Robert Taylor, don't ever spend too much time looking in the mirror. — Robert Stack

Let me give you a wonderful Zen practice. Wake up in the morning...look in the mirror, and laugh at yourself. — Bernie Glassman

One fateful morning, I looked at myself in the mirror and realized that I shouldn't be operating on patients and then teaching them to eat to avoid me in the future; I should teach them to eat so that I wouldn't have to operate on them in the first place! — Steven Gundry

If you want to see an endangered species, get up and look in the mirror. — John Young

I praticed making faces in the mirror and it would drive my mother crazy. She used to scare me by saying that I was going to see the devil if I kept looking in the mirror. That fascinated me even more, of course. — Jim Carrey

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. - Coco Chanel

Before you leave the house, look in the mirror and remove one accessory. — Coco Chanel

I stare at myself in the mirror and I think, 'Wow, I'm really great-looking.'... I think I'm the greatest, anyway. — Iggy Pop

I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this. — Lance Bass

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More Rearview Mirror Quotes

See, when you drive home today, you've got a big windshield on the front of your car. And you've got a little bitty rearview mirror. And the reason the windshield is so large and the rearview mirror is so small is because what's happened in your past is not near as important as what's in your future. — Joel Osteen

In my life there were a lot of situations where I could have been killed or some officer might have been killed chasing me, a lot of things could be different. Now, you know that's experience you can't buy. And it's there in my rearview mirror and I can refer to it in my writing. I have the experience to talk about things some people only imagine. — Merle Haggard

Explore the situation. Statements are expendable. Don't keep on looking in the rearview mirror and defending the status quo which is outmoded the moment it happened. — Marshall McLuhan

Every woman needs secrets,' her mother said with a smile then, her eyes meeting Sally's in the rearview mirror. 'Remember that when you're old like me, pumpkin, because the world has a way of making a woman's life everyone else's business--you have to dig out a little place that's only yours. — J. Courtney Sullivan

Can I tell you how strange it is to look in your rearview mirror and see guys in cars tailing you? — David Schwimmer

You won't even know you've crossed the line until it's way back in your rearview mirror. — Barry Lyga

I don't tend to look at myself through the rearview mirror where dates are concerned. I have blinders on the past and try to look forward. — Russell Mael

We're better in the rearview mirror than we are at predicting - 'cause you're never going to be right every time. You can handicap it. You can point to certain elements that make it work, and many of those elements come straight out of epidemiology, right? — Seth Godin

When you're a regular gal, you look in the rearview mirror, and in the bright daylight you see that line around your mouth, but when you're an actress and you see that line up on the big screen, it's, like, seven feet long. — Sharon Stone

The great times were never as great as they seem in the rearview mirror. — Pat Benatar

Given the slow pace of Washington's bureaucracy, policymakers are often busy solving yesterday's problems. This rearview mirror approach afflicts Mr. Obama and his Democratic allies in Congress. — Fred Upton

I can’t believe how much this place has grown,” Hazel muttered. The taxi driver grinned in the rearview mirror. “Been a long time since you visited, miss?” “About seventy years,” Hazel said. The driver slid the glass partition closed and drove on in silence. — Rick Riordan

I know you followed me. Don't look so surprised. It's called a rearview mirror. — Becca Fitzpatrick

No matter where you go, you always see yourself in the rearview mirror. — Kinky Friedman

I looked at my reflection in the rearview mirror. Some lipstick would go with this truck, I thought. — Jennifer Niven

Connie drove a silver Camry with rosary beads hanging from her rearview mirror and a Smith& Wesson stuck under the seat. No matter whatwent down, Connie was covered. — Janet Evanovich

It is undeniable that the French were in a better situation in 1960s then than they are today in 2017. I don't look in the rearview mirror. But there was no need for us to experience an end to social progress since then. — Marine Le Pen

I really try to forget. I only look at my old works if there's an interview and someone asks me about it. Otherwise, it's not even in the rearview mirror. — Chang-Rae Lee

I am reminded that no matter how hard you try, you can never be more than twelve years old with your parents. Parents earnestly try not to inflame, but their comments contain no scale and a strange focus. Discussing your private life with parents is like misguidedly looking at a zit in a car's rearview mirror and being convinced, in the absence of contrast or context, that you have developed combined heat rash and skin cancer. — Douglas Coupland

You have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when its gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on. — Jonathan Evison

we live in a world of excess: too many kinds of coffee, too many magazines, too many types of bread, too many digital recordings of Beethoven's Ninth, too many choices of rearview mirrors on the latest Renault. Sometimes you say to yourself: It's too much, it's all too much. — Corinne Maier

Speed Limit – A sign that tells you at what speed the car that's rapidly fading from view in your rearview mirror is going; a law that provides the sole means of support for many small-town police departments. — Richard Turner

It may be tempting to look back and wring our hands over missed opportunities for change in the preceding decades. But, I'm not interested at looking in the rearview mirror except to learn. — Jennifer Granholm

I was just about to ask you the same thing. I know you followed me. Don't look so suprised. It's called a rearview mirror. Are you stalking me for a specific reason? — Becca Fitzpatrick

I drove off, with my friends watching me go, all of them grouped on Lissa's hood. As I pulled onto the road, I glanced into the rearview and saw them: they were waving, hands moving through the air, their voices loud, calling out after me. The square of that mirror was like a frame, holding this picture of them saying good-bye, pushing me forward, before shifting gently out of sight, inch by fluid inch, as I turned away. — Sarah Dessen

Girls like you want to cut guy's nuts off and hang 'em from your rearview mirror. — Simone Elkeles

Sure,” she said, and hugged the laptop bag closer. “What could go wrong?” Michael’s eyes flashed to meet hers in the rearview mirror. Besides everything, I mean,” she said. — Rachel Caine

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