Top 200 Moving Forward Quotes (2025 Update)
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151. “It is not important to be better than someone else, but to be better than yesterday.”

— Kano Jigoro

152. “Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.”

— John Wayne

153. “Just start. Don’t wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.”

— Jacqueline Novogratz

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

— Cheryl Strayed

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

— Douglas Adams

156. “A goal without an action plan is a daydream.”

— Nathaniel Branden

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

— Billie Joe Armstrong

158. “Every single day must be excellent. You’ve got to give it all you’ve got!”

— Eric Thomas

159. “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

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

— Eddie Vedder

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

— Georges St-Pierre

162. “Every time I’ve failed, people have had me out for the count, but I always come back.”

— Sylvester Stallone

163. “Don’t be afraid of change, because it is leading you to a new beginning.”

— Joyce Meyer

164. “If you want to conquer fear, don’t sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.”

— Dale Carnegie

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

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

166. “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

167. “I am a capable person, and I can handle anything that comes my way.”

— Louise Hay

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

— Fridtjof Nansen

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

— Charlotte Brontë

170. “No matter how hard it gets, keep your chest out, keep your head up and handle it.”

— Tupac Shakur

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

— Sam Waterston

172. “Push yourself. Don’t Settle. Just live well. Just LIVE.”

— Jojo Moyes

173. “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

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

— Niccolò Machiavelli

175. “Move forward with purpose.”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

— Scott Jurek

177. “Definiteness of purpose is the starting point of all achievement.”

— W. Clement Stone

178. “Don’t be afraid of failure. This is the way to succeed.”

— LeBron James

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

— Venus Williams

180. “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

181. “If you don’t do it this year, you’ll just be one year older when you do.”

— Warren Miller

182. “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

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

— Phillip C. McGraw

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

— Oprah Winfrey

185. “You can often change your circumstances by changing your attitude.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

186. “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

187. “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

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

— Dave Mustaine

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

— Bill Gates

190. “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

191. “Change means the unknown.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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

— Maxwell Maltz

193. “Change is the law of life.”

— John F. Kennedy

194. “It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”

— Hugh Laurie

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

— Evander Holyfield

196. “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

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

— Hal Borland

198. “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

199. “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

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

— Paul Thomas Anderson