A Quote by James Van Praagh

I'd rather look forward and dream, than look backward and regret.

James Van Praagh

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Backward Dream Forward Look Rather Regret Than

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James Van Praagh
American - Author
Born: August 23, 1958

I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.

Jim Coleman

Neither look forward where there is doubt nor backward where there is regret. Look inward and ask not if there is anything outside you want, but whether there is anything inside that you have not yet unpacked.

Quentin Crisp

While I occasionally enjoy a bout of nostalgia, I would generally rather dream forward than backward.

Robert Breault

You can't look forward and backward at the same time...........so I choose to look forward.

Buck Brannaman

Faith begins with a backward look at the cross, but it lives with a forward look at the promises

John Piper

People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

Guillermo del Toro

It is out of fashion in these days to look backward rather than forward. About the only American given to it is some unreconstructed Southerner, who persists in his regard for a certain terrain, a certain history, and a certain inherited way of living.

John Crowe Ransom

A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors.

Edmund Burke

Paradoxical as it may seem, to believe in youth is to look backward; to look forward we must believe in age.

Dorothy L. Sayers

A good soldier, whether he leads a platoon or an army, is expected to look backward as well as forward; but he must think only forward.

Douglas MacArthur

I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

Kathryn Schulz

I have always said that I am one to look forward rather than back; what has happened in the past I can't change now. What is forward, I can.

Andrew Robertson

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

Josh Billings

Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.