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The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you can see.
Winston Churchill

Forward, Backward

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.
Michael Phelps

Put, Dream, Limit

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.
Brian Tracy

Car, Feelings, Thoughts

I've reached a point in my life where it's the little things that matter... I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. I'm happier with that.
Veronica Lake

Life, Attitude, Pretty

Go as far as you can see; when you get there you'll be able to see farther.
Thomas Carlyle

Go as far as you can see; when you get there, you'll be able to see farther.
J. P. Morgan

Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after generation, - till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.
Thomas Carlyle

Give, Thought, After

The only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little farther down our particular path than we have yet got ourselves.
E. M. Forster

Down, Path, Books

Nothing is farther than earth from heaven; nothing is nearer than heaven to earth.
Augustus Hare

Nothing, Earth, Heaven

The barriers are not erected which can say to aspiring talents and industry, 'Thus far and no farther.'
Ludwig van Beethoven

Far, Industry, Talents

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Cyril Connolly

Life, Success, Calm

It's been a journey, the NBA. It's taken me a lot farther than I ever expected.
Larry Bird

Journey, Taken, Nba

I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
Xun Zi

Place, Far, Once

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
Abbott L. Lowell

May, Reason, Progress

I had ambition not only to go farther than any man had ever been before, but as far as it was possible for a man to go.
Joseph Conrad

Before, Ambition, Far

Ever notice that the whisper of temptation can be heard farther than the loudest call to duty.
Earl Wilson

Call, Temptation, Duty

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.
Dennis Prager

Happiness, Happy, Person

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.
Lewis Thomas

Through, Path, Moment

As the Republican Party has moved farther and farther to the right, I have found myself increasingly at odds with the Republican philosophy and more in line with the philosophy of the Democratic Party.
Arlen Specter

Philosophy, Republican, Found

I also tell them that your education can take you way farther than a football, baseball, track, or basketball will - that's just the bottom line.
Bo Jackson

Education, Football, Baseball

Some minds improve by travel, others, rather, resemble copper wire, or brass, which get the narrower by going farther.
Thomas Hood

Travel, Others, Rather

It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
Bobby Darin

Time, Leaving, Away

Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go.
James Cook

Before, Ambition, Far

The farther a society progresses, the more clearly the individual becomes the antithesis of the group.
Herbert Read

Society, Group, Individual

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied... whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
Catherine the Great

Feeling, Matter, Gone

For to tempt and to be tempted are things very nearly allied - whenever feeling has anything to do in the matter, no sooner is it excited than we have already gone vastly farther than we are aware of.
Catherine the Great

Feeling, Matter, Gone

You should be able to afford health care for your family. You should be able to retire with dignity and respect. And you should be able to give your children the kind of education that allows them to dream even bigger, go even farther and accomplish even more than you could ever imagine.
Cory Booker

Education, Family, Health

On the other hand, the artist has much to do in the realm of color construction, which is so little explored and so obscure, and hardly dates back any farther than to the beginning of Impressionism.
Robert Delaunay

Artist, Beginning, Color

Although farming of any sort was almost as impossible in the plains as in the dry regions of winter rains farther west, the abundance of buffaloes made life much easier in many respects.
Ellsworth Huntington

Life, Impossible, Almost

Today the U.S. is farther from being nourished by poetry than it was a hundred years ago, when books of poems were best-sellers.
James Broughton

Poetry, Today, Books

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