Top 40 Moving Forward Quotes (2024 Update)

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

— Theodore Roosevelt

Also featured in: Effort Quotes, Moving Quotes

2. “Stand up and walk. Move forward.”

— Hiromu Arakawa

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

— Richard Branson

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

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Design Quotes

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

— Jimmy Chin

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

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

10. “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

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

— Douglas Adams

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

— Billie Joe Armstrong

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

— Eddie Vedder

14. “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

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

— Georges St-Pierre

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

— Fridtjof Nansen

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

— Charlotte Brontë

19. “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

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

— Niccolò Machiavelli

21. “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

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

— Scott Jurek

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

— Sam Waterston

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. “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

26. “Move forward with purpose.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

— Phillip C. McGraw

29. “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

30. “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

31. “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

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

— Bill Gates

33. “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

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

— Evander Holyfield

35. “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

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

— Hal Borland

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

— Dave Mustaine

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

38. “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

39. “Change means the unknown.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Maxwell Maltz

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson

42. “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