quotes about Moving Forward
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Self - development should be a perpetual process. In life you are either growing or rotting. You're moving forward or backwards; there is no standing still.
-- Al Duncan -
I have the right to express myself. Once we get through expressing, do we really move forward in society.
-- Al Sharpton -
Life is rather like a tin of sardines - we're all of us looking for the key.
-- Alan BennettSource : 1960 Beyond the Fringe.
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The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.
-- Alex WitchelSource : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Steve Jobs”, p.407, Simon and Schuster
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Food is ever-changing and ever moving forward and getting more and more complex.
-- Alexandra Guarnaschelli -
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
-- Alphonso Jackson -
I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
-- Andy Summers -
Abraham wasn't perfect. He failed, made mistakes. But, he would go back, get right with God, and then just keep moving forward. He didn't quit when things got hard. He just kept on going. And everywhere he went, God was there. God was with him.
-- Anne Graham Lotz -
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America's abundance was created not by public sacrifices to the common good, but by the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal interests and the making of their own private fortunes. They did not starve the people to pay for America's industrialization. They gave the people better jobs, higher wages, and cheaper goods with every new machine they invented, with every scientific discovery or technological advance- and thus the whole country was moving forward and profiting, not suffering, every step of the way.
-- Ayn Rand -
All you can do is do the best you can and I did that. I had a great time. I made a product and I was not embarrassed by it at all so you do it and you move on.
-- Blair Underwood -
I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.
-- Charlotte BronteSource : "Bronte goes pop...", www.harpersbazaar.com. August 23, 2011.
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Don't surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn't true anymore.
-- Cheryl StrayedSource : Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.205, Atlantic Books Ltd
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If anyone can overcome a fear for the ocean, you can, little lady. Courage is being scared to death and saddlin' up anyway.
-- Colleen Houck -
Worry compounds the futility of being trapped on a dead-end street. Thinking opens new avenues.
-- Cullen Hightower -
Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions.
-- Dag HammarskjoldSource : "Markings". Book by Dag Hammarskjöld, 1963.
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Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
-- Dan ChaonSource : "Stay Awake". Book by Dan Chaon, 2012.
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It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward.
-- Dani ShapiroSource : "Dani Shapiro: Stop Asking for Permission". Interview with Jennifer Haupt, www.psychologytoday.com. September 27, 2013.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
-- Daniel BaldwinSource : "Comeback Kid Daniel Baldwin Still Waiting for Lindsay Lohan to Call, Turned Down 'DWTS'" by Hollie McKay, www.foxnews.com. April 15, 2009.
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Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.
-- Dave MustaineSource : Song: À Tout le Monde
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Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
-- David R. Brower -
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We cannot change our memories, but we can change their meaning and the power they have over us.
-- David Seamands -
We're each our own person, we live our own lives, make our own mistakes, learn from them and move forward.
-- Debbie MacomberSource : Debbie Macomber (2001). “Sooner Or Later”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated
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Time is an amazing equalizer. I think if you stay true to yourself and keep moving forward, things come around.
-- Demi MooreSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
-- Denis Waitley -
Our destiny is not determined by the number of times we stumble but by the number of times we rise up, dust ourselves off, and move forward.
-- Dieter F. Uchtdorf -
Nobody wants you to stop, obviously because you're a moneymaking machine. But you have to make the decision and you have to move forward. So I took time off to have babies and do all that.
-- Donna SummerSource : "Donna Summer: 'Then I sought help'". Interview with Soledad O'Brien, www.cnn.com. October 22, 2003.
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A society, in the process of moving forward, often appears to be tearing itself apart. Certainly, an age of rapid change, such as ours, produces many paradoxes. But perhaps the most tragic paradox of our time is to be found in the failure of nation-states to recognize the imperatives of internationalism.
-- Earl Warren -
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
-- Eddie VedderSource : FaceBook post by Eddie Vedder from Apr 02, 2016
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No. The universe has to move forward. Pain and loss, they define us as much as happiness or love. Whether it's a world, or a relationship... Everything has its time. And everything ends.
-- Elisabeth SladenSource : "Doctor Who: School Reunion". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 2006.
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We cannot free ourselves unless we move forward united in a single desire.
-- Emilio Aguinaldo -
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Stay on your toes and always move forward.
-- Evander HolyfieldSource : Twitter post from Apr 25, 2016
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We have a sacred responsibility to fulfill the threefold mission of the Church—first, to teach the gospel to the world; second, to strengthen the membership of the Church wherever they may be; third, to move forward the work of salvation for the dead.
-- Ezra Taft Benson -
Be willing to move forward and find out what happens next.
-- Frank Shorter -
I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward.
-- Fridtjof Nansen -
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If a castle gets destroyed, you just build a new one. If you wanted me to I'd build them over and over. Let's build them together.
-- Fuyumi Soryo -
Well, my love,†said Alexia with prodigious daring to Lord Maccon, “shall we?†The earl started to move forward and then stopped abruptly and looked down at her, not moving at all. “Am I?†“Are you what?†She peeked up at him through her tangled hair, pretending confusion. There was no possible way she was going to make this easy for him. “Your love?†“Well, you are a werewolf, Scottish, naked, and covered in blood, and I am still holding your hand.†He sighed in evident relief. “Good. That is settled, then.
-- Gail Carriger -
Solving new problems is what keeps us moving forward as individuals and as a society, so don't back down.
-- Garry KasparovSource : Garry Kasparov (2010). “How Life Imitates Chess: Making the Right Moves, from the Board to the Boardroom”, p.93, Bloomsbury Publishing USA
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Take full responsibility for your life, move forward in the direction of your dreams
-- Gary Blair -
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once you laugh at you own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Mabye........ combat some the ugliness in the world.
-- Goldie Hawn -
One of the things that I've learned working with Madonna is you just move forward. It's really rare that she ever brings up the past.
-- Guy OsearySource : "Madonna's 'MDNA' is No. 1: Guy Oseary, Jimmy Iovine on the Art of the Album Roll-Out" by Shirley Halperin, www.hollywoodreporter.com. April 4, 2012.
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I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.
-- Harrison Ford -
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
-- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -
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We are going backwards in a field that’s supposed to be all about moving forward
-- Hillary Clinton -
Life is always at some turning point.
-- Irwin EdmanSource : Irwin Edman (1968). “The Uses of Philosophy: An Irwin Edman Reader”
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By taking the time to stop and appreciate who you are and what you've achieved - and perhaps learned through a few mistakes, stumbles and losses - you actually can enhance everything about you. Self-acknowledgment and appreciation are what give you the insights and awareness to move forward toward higher goals and accomplishments.
-- Jack Canfield -
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Remember our proud history of social justice, universal health care, public pensions and making sure no one is left behind. Let's continue to move forward.
-- Jack Layton -
You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.
-- Jennifer Weiner -
Okay, I thought. Here you are. You are here. And you move forward because that's the way it works; that's the only place u can go. You keep going until it stops hurting, or until you find new things to hurt you worse, I guess. And that is the human condition, all of us lurching along in our own private miseries, because that's the way it is. Because, I guess, God didn't give us any choice. You grow up, I remembered Abigail telling me. You learn.
-- Jennifer Weiner -
There are a lot of movies that inspire me to do what I do.
-- Jerry BruckheimerSource : Source: collider.com
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The trick is not escaping your fear, but confronting it and allowing it to drive and teach you. Only by getting to the bottom of your fears can you find their valuable lessons and move forward stronger than before.
-- Jillian Michaels -
You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You're moving forward.
-- Jimmy Chin -
To achieve your dreams, you must embrace adversity and make failure a regular part of your life. If you're not failing, you're probably not really moving forward.
-- John C. Maxwell -
I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
-- John Frusciante -
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We can reach our potential, but to do so, we must reach within ourselves. We must summon the strength, the will, and the faith to move forward - to be bold - to invest in our future.
-- John HoevenSource : "Guerrilla Marketing on the Internet: The Definitive Guide from the Father of Guerrilla Marketing". Book by Jay Levinson, Mitch Meyerson and Mary Eule Scarborough, August 1, 2008.
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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.
-- John Howe -
I am not a courageous person by nature. I have simply discovered that, at certain key moments in this life, you must find courage in yourself, in order to move forward and live. It is like a muscle and it must be exercised, first a little, and then more and more. All the really exciting things possible during the course of a lifetime require a little more courage than we currently have. A deep breath and a leap.
-- John Patrick Shanley -
The enemy aggressor is always pursuing a course of larceny, murder, rapine, and barbarism. We are always moving forward with high mission, a destiny imposed by the deity to regenerate our victims while incidentally capturing their markets, to civilize savage and senile and paranoidal peoples while blundering accidentally into their oil wells or metal mines.
-- John T. FlynnSource : John T. Flynn (1944). “As We Go Marching”
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If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.
-- John Wooden -
While you, the leader, can teach many things, character is not taught easily to adults who arrive at your desk lacking it. Be cautious about taking on reclamation projects regardless of the talent they may possess. Have the courage to make character count among the qualities you seek in others.
-- John Wooden -
Living is a constant process of deciding what we are going to do.
-- Jose Ortega y Gasset -
Life is a series of punches. It presents a lot of challenges. It presents a lot of hardship, but the people that are able to take those punches and able to move forward are the ones that really do have a lot of success and have a lot of joy in their life and have a lot of stories to tell, too.
-- Josh Turner -
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I like to move forward and notice things along the roadside that indicate where I should go.
-- Joshua Homme -
Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
-- Julius CaesarSource : 'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30
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Although I’m weak and full of flaws, I will never stop moving forward. No matter who I am, no one other than myself will create my own existence. No matter what others may think or feel, I will still move forward as myself.
-- Jun Mochizuki -
My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
-- Kenny LogginsSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end…crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).
-- Khaled Hosseini -
I'm all about change, and I know things are going to move forward in life, and that's just how it goes.
-- Kid Rock -
Sometimes you have to be selfish to get what you want and move forward in life.
-- Kristen Stewart -
One can never go back. One always has to move forward.
-- Libba Bray -
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A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that's unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push.
-- Ludwig WittgensteinSource : "Culture and Value" by Ludwig Wittgenstein, translated by Peter Winch, (p. 42e), 1980.
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Progress. Just make progress. It's okay to have setbacks and the need for do-overs. It's okay to draw a line in the sand and start over again - and again. Just make sure you're moving the line forward. Move forward. Take baby steps... Then change will come. And it will be good.
-- Lysa TerKeurst -
Every moment of your life is infinitely creative and the universe is endlessly bountiful. Just put forth a clear enough request, and everything your heart desires must come to you.
-- Mahatma Gandhi -
I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid — if you are afraid, you can't move forward.
-- Malala Yousafzai -
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Some people only ask others to do something. I believe that, why should I wait for someone else? Why don't I take a step and move forward.
-- Malala Yousafzai -
The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.
-- Marshall Goldsmith -
Whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward!
-- Martin Luther King, Jr. -
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
-- Maxwell Maltz -
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Looking back isn't going to help you! Moving forward is the thing to do
-- McKayla Maroney -
Any idiot can be brave, but courage is about knowing what's at stake, and moving forward anyway.
-- Meg Ryan -
I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.
-- Melissa Etheridge -
Today I will simply accept. I will relinquish the need to be in resistance to myself and my environment in any way. I will move forward in joy by accepting where I am right now.
-- Melody Beattie -
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You can't start the next chapter of your life
-- Michael McMillian -
I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.
-- Michelle Moran -
You always have to try to move forward with a positive connotation in the future.
-- Miesha Tate -
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
-- Mignon McLaughlin -
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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men.
-- Mortimer Adler -
God doesn't require us to succeed, he only requires that you try.
-- Mother Teresa -
Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.
-- Murray Walker -
From the poorest of countries to the richest of nations, education is the key to moving forward in any society.
-- Nelson Mandela -
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One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
-- Niccolo Machiavelli -
Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit.
-- Oprah Winfrey -
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Everything must change, everything must move forward.
-- Pat BenatarSource : Interview with Stephen Thompson, www.avclub.com. August 26, 1997.
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Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.
-- Paul Thomas AndersonSource : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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No one should ever ask themselves that: why am I unhappy? The question carries within it the virus that will destroy everything. If we ask that question, it means we want to find out what makes us happy. If what makes us happy is different from what we have now, then we must either change once and for all or stay as we are, feeling even more unhappy.
-- Paulo Coelho -
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
-- Percy Bysshe Shelley -