Motivation will keep you going forwards, Hesitation will only drag you backwards. - Mouloud Benzadi
Weary of myself, and sick of asking What I am, and what I ought to be, At this vessel's prow I stand, which bears me Forwards, forwards, o'er the starlit sea. - Matthew Arnold
It is hard to focus on going forwards when you are looking backwards. - Gillian Duce
The foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity. - Alfred North Whitehead
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards. - Søren Kierkegaard
Every reaction is an opportunity to cultivate a pearl - a beautiful truth that will illuminate the way forwards. - Pollyanna Darling
There's the trick: to find the way - whether forwards or back - to what we long to be. - Rose Tremain