Retrospect Quotes

It really is strange the way I work for success but when I get there cannot appreciate it. I enjoy the road to success and the struggle even when it gets hard. But when I achieve my goal, I feel suddenly and totally stressed. Only in retrospect can I begin to enjoy the moment and admit just how great it was.

Sarah Brightman

Success is terrifying. Like happiness, it is often appreciated in retrospect. It's only later that you place it in perspective. Years from now, I'll look back and say, "God, wasn't it wonderful?"

Julie Andrews

Righteousness is easy in retrospect.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect

Robert Louis Stevenson

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

Robert Frost

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

Paul Theroux

It is a characteristic of old age to find the progress of time accelerated. The less one accomplishes in a given time, the shorter does the retrospect appear.

Wilhelm von Humboldt

Evil is obvious only in retrospect.

Gloria Steinem

She was a young person whose reveries never were in retrospect. For her past was no treasury of distinct memories, all hoarded and classified, some brighter than others and more highly valued. All memories were for her but as notes in one fused radiance that followed her and made more luminous the pathway of her future.

Sir Henry Maximilian Beerbohm

In retrospect, each of the steps toward this abyss seemed irrevocable, and yet they had all been so small!

James Benjamin Blish

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