Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.

True wealth is not measured in money or status or power. It is measured in the legacy we leave behind for those we love and those we inspire.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

When you make it to the top, turn and reach down for the person behind you.

To lead people, walk behind them.

Realise this: one day your soul
will depart from your body and you will
be drawn behind the curtain that floats between us
and the unknown. While you wait for that moment, be happy,
because you don’t know where you came from and
you don’t know where you will be going.

Grief is like the wake behind a boat. It starts out as a huge wave that follows close behind you and is big enough to swamp and drown you if you suddenly stop moving forward. But if you do keep moving, the big wake will eventually dissipate. And after a long time, the waters of your life get calm again, and that is when the memories of those who have left begin to shine as bright and as enduring as the stars above.

Take care what you say before a wall, as you cannot tell who may be behind it.

Behind every good man, there’s a good woman reminding you I knew you when you didn’t have nothing.

Pessimists see a problem behind every opportunity. Optimists see an opportunity behind every problem.

To educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kindness that stands behind the action. Nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. Everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. Train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.

The basic idea behind teaching is to teach people what they need to know.

Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.

Most writers – poets in especial – prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy – an ecstatic intuition – and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes.

I learned there are troubles of more than one kind. Some come from ahead and some from behind.

There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind — only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts.

The wild, cruel beast is not behind the bars of the cage. He is in front of it.

You can tell the strength of a nation by the women behind its men.

The beauty of a move lies not in its appearance but in the thought behind it.

The only definition by which Americas best days are behind it is on a purely relative basis.

All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that’s going to continue to drive me.

The desire to transcend one’s own ego boundaries, to share completely, even for a moment, the consciousness of another person must be a universal longing. It motivates many of our activities from taking drugs to making love, and lies behind the search for new ways of getting close to one another that is so intense in our society today.

He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.

There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind – and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn’t to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can’t just walk away from trade.

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that’s a very sad thing. It’s film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that’s everywhere around the world.

No original thought still exists. People are original, each one of them. The same ideas that others had before you are waiting for you to bring them back to life in a new way. The part of who you are that is left behind within these old ideas is what makes them original all over again.

Behind every man now alive stand thirty ghosts, for that is the ratio by which the dead outnumber the living.

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life–and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.

You will never see a U-Haul behind a hearse.

There’s no genius behind it. It’s persistence and listening to people.

Everywhere we go and move on and change, something’s lost–something’s left behind. You can’t ever quite repeat anything, and I’ve been so yours, here–

I don’t like to leave anything,’ the man said. ‘I don’t like to leave things behind.

If you like my poems let them walk in the evening, a little behind you

Oh, the things you can find if you don’t stay behind!

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn’t have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.