Moving Forward Quotes

1. “Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort.”

— Theodore Roosevelt

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2. “If you don’t make bold moves, the world doesn’t move forward.”

— Richard Branson

3. “Stand up and walk. Move forward.”

— Hiromu Arakawa

4. “Life is always at some turning point.”

— Irwin Edman

5. “If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.”

— John Wooden

6. “Let us move forward with strong and active faith.”

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

Also featured in: Strong Quotes

7. “You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You’re moving forward.”

— Jimmy Chin

8. “Don’t surrender all your joy for an idea you used to have about yourself that isn’t true anymore.”

— Cheryl Strayed

Also featured in: Quotes About Ideas

9. “When you’re curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Design Quotes

10. “Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

11. “Always move forward, going straight will get you nowhere.”

— Billie Joe Armstrong

12. “Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.”

— Eddie Vedder

13. “Let the past hold on to itself and let the present move forward into the future.”

— Douglas Adams

14. “I demolish my bridges behind me – then there is no choice but forward.”

— Fridtjof Nansen

15. “Let the dead Past bury its dead!”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

16. “I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.”

— Charlotte Brontë

17. “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 Wittgenstein

18. “Set your goal and keep moving forward.”

— Georges St-Pierre

19. “One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

20. “Work, work, work, but what mark do we leave, what point do we make? People who are too beholden to work become like erasers: as things move forward, they leave in their wake no trace of themselves.”

— Yann Martel

21. “We move forward, but we must stay in the present.”

— Scott Jurek

22. “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

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes

23. “Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.”

— Arianna Huffington

Also featured in: Courage Quotes

24. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

— Venus Williams

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Courage Quotes

25. “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

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Moving On Quotes

26. “For Africa to move forward, you’ve really got to get rid of malaria.”

— Bill Gates

27. “To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.”

— Dave Pelzer

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Mistake Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

28. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

29. “Move forward with purpose.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

30. “Stay on your toes and always move forward.”

— Evander Holyfield

31. “The attitude you have as a parent is what your kids will learn from more than what you tell them. They don’t remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”

— Jim Henson

32. “Stand up and walk out of your history.”

— Phillip C. McGraw

33. “Life shoould be touched, not strangled. You’ve got to relax, let it happen at times, and at other move forward with it.”

— Ray Bradbury

34. “Try to write at least 500 words a day. You may ditch 499 of them tomorrow, but you will still be moving forward.”

— Jojo Moyes

35. “Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.”

— Dave Mustaine

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

36. “If you’re not moving forward, you’re falling back.”

— Sam Waterston

37. “Entrepreneurship is about turning what excites you in life into capital, so that you can do more of it and move forward with it.”

— Richard Branson

38. “Screenwriting is like ironing. You move forward a little bit and go back and smooth things out.”

— Paul Thomas Anderson

39. “Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.”

— Hal Borland

40. “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 Hoeven

41. “Change means the unknown.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

42. “Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.”

— Maxwell Maltz