99 Quotes For Looking Back A Year Ago

Looking back on the past year can bring up a lot of emotions. Whether it was a year of growth, challenges, or triumphs, reflecting on the journey can be a powerful experience. Here are 99 quotes to inspire your reflection on the past year.

Quotes on Growth and Learning

1. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
2. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
3. “Life is a journey, and if you fall in love with the journey, you will be in love forever.” – Peter Hagerty
4. “I am not a product of my circumstances. I am a product of my decisions.” – Stephen Covey
5. “Believe in yourself, take on your challenges, dig deep within yourself to conquer fears. Never let anyone bring you down. You got this.” – Chantal Sutherland
6. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar
7. “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
8. “It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop.” – Confucius
9. “If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.” – Andrew Carnegie
10. “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou

Quotes on Resilience and Perseverance

11. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
12. “Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot
13. “Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.” – Booker T. Washington
14. “Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, ‘I will try again tomorrow.'” – Mary Anne Radmacher
15. “I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.” – Thomas Edison
16. “It’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln
17. “Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine
18. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
19. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” – Jimmy Dean
20. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.” – H.G. Wells

Quotes on Love and Connection

21. “Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them, humanity cannot survive.” – Dalai Lama XIV
22. “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
23. “Love is not about how much you say ‘I love you,’ but how much you prove that it’s true.” – Unknown
24. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
25. “We are not put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.” – Unknown
26. “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
27. “Happiness is not something readymade. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama XIV
28. “In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
29. “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
30. “Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible – it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.” – Barbara De Angelis

Quotes on Reflection and Gratitude

31. “Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.” – Charles Dickens
32. “Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.” – Melody Beattie
33. “The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.” – Dalai Lama XIV
34. “The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
35. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
36. “Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others.” – Marcus Tullius Cicero
37. “The past cannot be changed, the future is still in your power.” – Unknown
38. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
39. “Happiness is not the absence of problems, it’s the ability to deal with them.” – Steve Maraboli
40. “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates

Quotes on Hope and Inspiration

41. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” – Emily Dickinson
42. “Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.” – Helen Keller
43. “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
44. “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
45. “You are never too small to make a difference.” – Greta Thunberg
46. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” – Maya Angelou
47. “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” – Alice Walker
48. “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” – Ronald Reagan
49. “The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.” – Vince Lombardi
50. “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes on Change and Transformation

51. “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
52. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
53. “Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it.” – Charles R. Swindoll
54. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
55. “Be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
56. “The only constant in life is change.” – Heraclitus
57. “If you want to change the world, change yourself.” – Mahatma Gandhi
58. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
59. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
60. “Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a