Best Retrospect Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“In retrospect, I look back, and I am so glad that we didn't have our kids when we wanted to have them. The time that they came along was just the right timing.”

“I didn't think of myself as beautiful, but, in retrospect, I guess I was.”

“As human beings, our lives should be in retrospect with God.”

“In retrospect, I can see I couldn't talk to people face to face, so I got on stage and started screaming and squealing and twitching about. Ha! Like, that sure made sense!”

“Righteousness is easy in retrospect.”

“Revolutions are something you see only in retrospect.”

“In retrospect there were failures enough to go around. There were failures before the storm and failures after the storm.”

“I really tend to write in retrospect.”

“The problem with being alive, I can tell you now, is that it happens so fast, we don't have the time to make sense of it in the same way that you can once you're dead.”

“...the passage of time, which transformed the volatile present into that finished, unalterable painting called the past, a canvas man always executed blindly, with erratic brushstrokes that only made sense when one stepped far enough away from it to be able to admire it as a whole.”

“Too often we only identify the crucial points in our lives in retrospect. At the time we are too absorbed in the fetid detail of the moment to spot where it is leading us. But not this time. I was experiencing one of my dad’s deafening moments. If my life could be understood as a meal of many courses (and let’s be honest, much of it actually was), then I had finished the starters and I was limbering up for the main event. So far, of course, I had made a stinking mess of it. I had spilled the wine. I had dropped my cutlery on the floor and sprayed the fine white linen with sauce. I had even spat out some of my food because I didn’t like the taste of it.”

“The power of hope! Even a lack of ambition can, for a time, pay off as a necessary facet, as long as hope outweighs it.”

“It's sometimes easier to help others rather than helping yourself. The trick is to listen to your "self" as a friend. This may be the simplest change you ever make in life, with the biggest impact.”