C. S. Lewis Quotes

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

While it's generally easier to stay the course, it's a bad idea if that course does not take us where we want to go.

Sometimes you have to take two steps back to take ten forward.

Every ten years a man should give himself a good kick in the pants.

Of course, the world is full of problems. But on the other hand it's important to get the sense... are we generally moving in the right direction or the wrong direction?

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.

It's a question of whether we're going to go forward into the future, or past to the back.

The pendulum will swing back.

I also held that view for about 50 years, but lately I have been rethinking it and now believe I was wrong.

Let nothing prevent you from changing your previous decision if after consideration you feel that the previous decision was incorrect.

There are no footprints backwards!

We’ve already decided to change. The question is: In which direction do we change, and from where do we start?

As any traveller knows, heading elsewhere is one thing, getting back quite another.

I've got my head screwed on in the right direction, for the most part. It may be turned a little bit to the left, but we're getting there.

Not only in the Octagon, but also in life, sometimes I have to take two steps back to take one step forward.

I just wanted to stop and try to get some perspective. [ A Period of Transition] it was just a matter of wanting to review the whole thing...to try and get some relationship to what I was doing.

To 'turn around' is to end up facing the same way. Maybe that is the problem, all the turning organizations around.

We must make a radical turn, at 360 degrees.

In my twenties, I thought I was Robert De Niro and I invested all of myself in my acting. But, as I've got older, I've calmed down a bit. I've thrown my game plan out of the window.

One of my teachers once said that the way you know you're on the right path is that it works. Now, that doesn't mean you don't run into blocks and brick walls, but it does mean that you can find a way around them or find a way to change yourself or your project in order to find the flow again and have it work.

Silence moves faster when it's going backward.

When I have a bad day I look back six months and see where we were and ask myself if we are moving in the right direction.

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

Any man who stands for progress has to criticize, disbelieve and challenge every item of the old faith. Item by item he has to reason out every nook and corner of the prevailing faith. If after considerable reasoning one is led to believe in any theory or philosophy, his faith is welcomed. His reasoning can be mistaken, wrong, misled and sometimes fallacious. But he is liable to correction because reason is the guiding star of his life. But mere faith and blind faith is dangerous: it dulls the brain, and makes a man reactionary.

In a democracy sometimes you go forwards and sometimes you go backward.