A Quote by Michel de Montaigne

Like the watermen who advance forward while they look backward.

Michel de Montaigne

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Michel de Montaigne
French - Philosopher
February 28, 1533 - September 13, 1592

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

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

Jim Coleman

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

Buck Brannaman

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

If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.

J. I. Packer

You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.

Leryn Franco

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

Edmund Burke

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

John Piper

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

James Van Praagh

Studios look backward. Filmmakers look forward.

Guillermo del Toro

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Abraham Verghese

You can't look forward and backward at the same time.

Coleman Young

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

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

Iggy Pop

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.

Swami Vivekananda

I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward.

Clint Eastwood

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