Top 200 Moving Quotes (2025 Update)
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51. “If you’re not moving forward, you’re falling back.”

— Sam Waterston

52. “In this world you’re either growing or you’re dying so get in motion and grow.”

— Lou Holtz

53. “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”

— Aeschylus

54. “What I tell people is be the best version of yourself in anything that you do. You don’t have to live anybody else’s story.”

— Stephen Curry

55. “In the long run, the sharpest weapon of all is a kind and gentle spirit.”

— Anne Frank

56. “Sometimes it takes only one act of kindness and caring to change a person’s life.”

— Jackie Chan

57. “If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

58. “If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.”

— John Bingham

59. “If you want the best the world has to offer, offer the world your best.”

— Neale Donald Walsch

60. “And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

— Paulo Coelho

61. “Things live by moving and gain strength as they go.”

— Bruce Lee

62. “You know, sometimes all you need is twenty seconds of insane courage. Just literally twenty seconds of just embarrassing bravery. And I promise you, something great will come of it.”

— Benjamin Mee

63. “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”

— Samuel Beckett

64. “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”

— Sylvia Plath

65. “Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

66. “Movement for me is meditation.”

— Conor McGregor

67. “I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”

— Anne Frank

68. “The only limitations one has are the ones one places on oneself.”

— Muhammad Ali

69. “The struggle of life is one of our greatest blessings. It makes us patient, sensitive, and Godlike. It teaches us that although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”

— Helen Keller

70. “The only time you should look back in life, is to see how far you have come.”

— Kevin Hart

71. “The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.”

— Norman Cousins

72. “But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

— William Butler Yeats

73. “I belong to no religion. My religion is love. Every heart is my temple.”

— Rumi

74. “You must not let your life run in the ordinary way; do something that nobody else has done, something that will dazzle the world. Show that God’s creative principle works in you.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

75. “When you dance, your purpose is not to get to a certain place on the floor. It’s to enjoy each step along the way.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

76. “Run your own race. Who cares what others are doing? The only question that matters is ‘Am I progressing?’”

— Robin S. Sharma

77. “Be a hero. Always say, ‘I have no fear.’ Tell this to everyone – ‘Have no fear.’”

— Swami Vivekananda

78. “Focus on your dream and do everything in your power. You have the power to change your life circumstances.”

— Nick Vujicic

79. “They cannot take away our self respect if we do not give it to them.”

— Mahatma Gandhi

80. “The more you let go, the faster you will move ahead.”

— Alan Cohen

81. “Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.”

— Heraclitus

82. “We have a choice every day regarding the attitude we will embrace for the day. Life is 10% what happens to us and 90% how we react to it. Our attitude is everything.”

— Charles R. Swindoll

83. “If you can make it through the night, there’s a brighter day.”

— Tupac Shakur

84. “I wish it need not have happened in my time,’ said Frodo. ‘So do I,’ said Gandalf, ’and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”

— J. R. R. Tolkien

85. “My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”

— Lewis Carroll

86. “Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”

— Paulo Coelho

87. “To be energetic, act energetic.”

— W. Clement Stone

88. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.”

— Anthony Bourdain

89. “Let your dreams be bigger than your fears and your actions louder than your words...”

— Christine Caine

90. “The only thing harder than letting go is moving on.”

— Anonymous

91. “When you see a good move, look for a better one.”

— Emanuel Lasker

92. “Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring.”

— Oscar Wilde

93. “Life laughs at you when you are unhappy; Life smiles at you when you are happy; But, life salutes you when you make others happy.”

— Charlie Chaplin

94. “Only two things can reveal life’s great secrets: suffering and love.”

— Paulo Coelho

95. “A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.”

— Isaac Newton

96. “It was my life – like all lives, mysterious and irrevocable and sacred. So very close, so very present, so very belonging to me. How wild it was, to let it be.”

— Cheryl Strayed

97. “If you keep chasing your dreams, one day you’ll catch them.”

— Dean Karnazes

98. “Always believe in yourself. No matter who’s around you being negative or thrusting negative energy at you, totally block it off. Because whatever you believe, you become.”

— Michael Jackson

99. “Limitless is your potential. Magnificent is your future.”

— Gordon B. Hinckley

100. “Be not the slave of your own past – plunge into the sublime seas, dive deep, and swim far, so you shall come back with new self-respect, with new power, and with an advanced experience that shall explain and overlook the old.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson