Pressing Forward Quotes:

Success comes from repeated efforts day in and day out. You learn from your mistakes, make adjustments and continue pressing forward until you achieve the results you desire.

- Zig Ziglar

source: FaceBook post by Zig Ziglar from Dec 19, 2013

topic: Mistake, Effort, Desire, Adjustment, Pressing Forward

When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: "Old Town Folks". Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe. Chapter 39, p. 507, 1869.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Strength, Inspirational Cancer, Do Not Give Up

Courage is not the absence of fear

- Richard Stengel

topic: Absence, Peaceful Warrior, Afraid Of Life, Inspirational Courage, Inspirational Recovery

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.

- C. S. Lewis

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Time To Move On, Times Have Changed

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1896). “Oldtown folks. Sam Lawson's Oldtown fireside stories”

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Encouraging, Give Me Strength, Self Determination

We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.

- Walt Disney

source: "Meet the Robinsons". The ending credits of the movie, 2007.

topic: Life, Moving On, Moving Forward, Many Paths, Inspiration And Creativity

Just because you’ve come to a dead end, it’s not time to give up. Find a different route and keep pressing forward.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Giving Up, Different, Dead Ends, Pressing Forward, There Is Always A Way

Your dreams are always going to be the most important to you than they will be to anybody else. So keep dreaming, keep believing, keep pressing forward. So all those warriors out there – be encouraged

- Kai Greene

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Dream, Believe, Warrior, Keep Dreaming, Pressing Forward

A man who is pressing forward to accomplish worthy goals can soon put despondency under his feet.

- Ezra Taft Benson

source: Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

topic: Men, Feet, Goal, Pressing Forward, Despondency

I know what's in my future is greater than what's in my past so I am pressing forward in life.

- Joel Osteen

topic: Past, Forward In Life, My Future, Pressing Forward

Ambition is an uncomfortable companion many times. He creates a discontent with present surroundings and achievements; he is never satisfied but always pressing forward to better things in the future. Restless, energetic, purposeful, it is ambition that makes of the creature a real man.

- Lyndon B. Johnson

topic: Real, Ambition, Men, Pressing Forward

Enduring, or carrying on, is not just a matter of tolerating circumstances and hanging in there, but of pressing forward.

- Marvin J. Ashton

source: Marvin J. Ashton (1991). “The Measure of Our Hearts”, Shadow Mountain

topic: Determination, Carrying On, Matter, Pressing Forward

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

- Robert Forman Horton

topic: Lying, Achievement, Aim, Hereafter, Pressing Forward

You can wake up every day looking forward to new adventures with hope smiling brightly before you because you have a Savior. You are baptized in His Church.... You just need to stay in, pressing forward with a brightness of hope to your heavenly home.

- Julie B. Beck

topic: Home, Adventure, Church, Pressing Forward, Baptized In

Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.

- Archibald Garrod

topic: Science, Hands, Imagination, Sifting, Exact Sciences

Get your evidences of grace by pressing forward to the mark, and not by groping with a lantern after the boundary lines.

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

source: Harriet Beecher Stowe (1869). “Oldtown Folks”, p.240

topic: Grace, Lines, Boundaries, Pressing Forward, Lanterns

Greatness of soul consists not so much in soaring high and in pressing forward, as in knowing how to adapt and limit oneself.

- Michel de Montaigne

topic: Greatness, Knowing, Soul, Pressing Forward

Every morning, I shall concern myself anew about the boundary, Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No, And pressing forward honor reality. We cannot avoid, Using power, Cannot escape the compulsion, To afflict the world, So let us, cautious in diction, And mighty in contradiction, Love powerfully.

- Martin Buber

source: "Power and Love". Poem by Martin Buber, 1926.

topic: Life, Morning, Reality, Pressing Forward