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Moving Forward Quotes

There is a camaraderie that grows up among those who work with old books and old papers, largely, I suspect, because we understand that we are at odds with the rest of the world: we are travelling backwards, while all those around us are still moving forward.
- Peter Ackroyd

And, when you can't go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.
- Paulo Coelho

I'm always moving forward.
- Debbie Allen

The biggest sacrifice to me is to not be in an atmosphere where I can keep writing and moving forward.
- Trey Anastasio

The freedom of saying anything to him, telling all, relieved a burden I hadn't even realized I'd been carrying. In my relentless push to keep moving forward, there had been so many emotions I hadn't let myself inhabit fully, so many things I hadn't talked about. Now I couldn't quite catch up to myself.
- Lisa Kleypas

We don't want to go back to the same policies and the same practices that drove our economy into a ditch, that punished the middle class, and that led us to this catastrophe. We have to keep moving forward.
- David Axelrod

I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people are going to fully appreciate what this reform is if we pass it and implement it and it becomes not a caricature but a reality, and I still believe that. So I think it will be easier to sell it moving forward than it was to this point.
- David Axelrod

People so far have been very fond of the Robert Altman movie, as I am, and when one things goes well it shines light on your other projects and now I seem to have a number of projects that are moving forward.
- Bob Balaban

I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
- Daniel Baldwin

The past is not a peaceful landscape lying there behind me, a country in which I can stroll wherever I please, and will gradually show me all its secret hills and dales. As I was moving forward, so it was crumbling. Most of the wreckage that can be seen is colourless, distorted, frozen: its meaning escapes me... all that's left is a skeleton. I shall never find my plans again, my hopes and fears - I shall not find myself.
- Simone De Beauvoir

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
- Martha Beck

I felt myself trapped in line for a ride I was not nearly ready for, looking back but moving forward in the only direction I could go.
- Elizabeth Berg

When he woke up the next day, the world was still there, and things were already moving forward, like the great karmic wheel of Indian mythology that kills every living thing in its path.
- Haruki Murakami

Life's not about how hard of a hit you can give... it's about how many you can take, and still keep moving forward.
- Sylvester Stallone

Obviously, I have a lot of memories here... but at the same time I'm going to put all my energies into moving forward and doing my best for the Thrashers.
- Peter Bondra

It was like Percy had faced death before, like he knew about grief. What mattered was listening. You didn't need to say you were sorry. The only thing that helped was moving onmoving forward.
- Rick Riordan

Something keeps me moving forward, though. A lifetime of watching the Hunger Games lets me know that certain areas of the arena are rigged for certain attacks. And that if I can just get away from this section, I might be able to move out of reach of the launchers. I might also then fall straight into a pit of vipers, but I can't worry about that now.
- Suzanne Collins

Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there's no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?
- Richard Carlson

We were in a middle space then, in a cone of white, father and son moving forward at a certain speed. Side by side, not truly quiet but quiescent, two gnarls of human scribble, human cipher, human dream.
- Jonathan Lethem

Even when our death is imminent, we carry the image of ourselves moving forward, alive, into the future.
- Dan Chaon

lEvery moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.
- Hillary Clinton

Every moment wasted looking back, keeps us from moving forward.
- Hillary Clinton

No!" Moist's fist thumped the table. "Never say that, Tolliver! Never! Run before you walk! Fly before you crawl! Keep moving forward!
- Terry Pratchett

Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
- Walt Disney Company

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 Company

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

For anyone who feels lost in their own way, going back to who you are and what you love or moving forward to whoever you are meant to be or meant to love, is the purpose of being lost. We lose ourselves, so we can find out who we truly are. And when by fate we do, we discover the best version of ourselves.
- Joanne Crisner

Connecting with those you know love, like and appreciate you restores the spirit and give you energy to keep moving forward in this life.
- Deborah Day

Just keep moving forward and don't give a shit about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.
- Johnny Depp

Just keep moving forward and don't give a sh** about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.
- Johnny Depp

I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you've done.
- Robert Downey Jr

From the top of the staircase she sees the London train, modern and elegant, and she tells herself again: Whether it's good luck or bad to be born onto this earth, the best way to spend a life here is to let yourself be carried along, as I am moving at this moment, by a cheerful, noisy crowd moving forward.
- Milan Kundera

If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.
- Martin Luther King Jr

But a lot of the old fans are listening to a lot of the younger music. So I gotta keep moving forward, and they'll move forward too.
- Kenneth Edmonds

I definitely feel we're moving forward. There's a lot more understanding... there's less fear and we're working on there being less hatred.
- Melissa Etheridge

You can tell when something's not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don't go away.
- Jeffrey Eugenides

It's a wonderful world. You can't go backwards. You're always moving forward. It's the wonderful part about life. And that's terrific.
- Harvey Fierstein

A transitional government is the beginning of a transfer of sovereignty. It's a question of Iraqi security and moving forward with the political process.
- Joschka Fischer

I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death.
- Nelson Mandela

It's true, I am afraid of dying. I am afraid of the world moving forward without me, of my absence going unnoticed, or worse, being some natural force propelling life on. Is it selfish? Am I such a bad person for dreaming of a world that ends when I do?
- Jonathan Safran Foer

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.
- Henry Ford

It's exciting setting goals and moving forward with them.
- Amber Frey

America is moving forward and gaining strength. We have been tested, and we have proven ourselves to be a tough, resilient and resourceful nation.
- Bill Frist

It is our duty and our privilege to keep America moving forward.
- Bill Frist

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.
- John Frusciante

As a result, he is hardly ever happy in the place where he is, something in him is already moving forward to the next place, and yet he is never going towards something, always away, away
- Damon Galgut

I took the initiative in moving forward a whole range of initiatives that have proven to be important to our country's economic growth, environmental protection, improvements in our educational system.
- Al Gore

To look in the face of hard things and keep moving forward - that's what one has to do.
- Anna Godbersen

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
- Conrad Hall

I've learned that sometimes, when you're afraid but you keep on moving forward, that's the biggest kind of courage there is.
- Cynthia Hand

I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work.
- William Ernest Hocking

Was there happiness at the end [of the movie], they wanted to know.
If someone were to ask me today whether the story of Hassan, Sohrab, and me ends with happiness, I wouldn't know what to say.
Does anybody's?
After all, life is not a Hindi movie. Zendagi migzara, Afghans like to say: Life goes on, undmindful of beginning, en, kamyab, nah-kam, crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis.
- Khaled Hosseini

Life goes on, unmindful of beginning, end...crisis or catharsis, moving forward like a slow, dusty caravan of kochis (nomads).
- Khaled Hosseini

The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.
- Kirsten Hubbard

Wanderlove is about forgetting the bad things and focusing on the good. Out with the old and in with the new... The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.
- Kirsten Hubbard

I agree that it is not just the extremists who harbor bad thoughts or engage in bad acts, but they are usually the source of the polarization and try to keep education and communication of the main stream from moving forward.
- Joichi Ito

The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing.
- Alphonso Jackson

If you can't run, then walk. And if you can't walk, then crawl. Do what you have to do. Just keep moving forward and never, ever give up.
- Dean Karnazes

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
- Alyson Noel

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
- Victor Kiam

He waved to the city and said good-bye.
The city responded by carrying on the way it always did, traffic moving forward uninterrupted, without slowing, as if it were trying to demonstrate its permanence and show him it would still be there if he ever wanted to return. That promise was the best and only thing he could ask of it.
- Matthew J Kirby

Along this road, we won't stop moving forward
Not even if we become separated from one another.
For us, most of all, there was never a time, never a place where you could just stand still
But even so, if there were times when we were afraid, when we'd look back on it all and wonder
We'd just say that is was our destiny, wouldn't we?
So we started off, all walking down the same road
- Tite Kubo

There is no standing still because time is moving forward.
- Greg Lake

The team is very enthusiastic - everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it's a very good, close-knit team.
- David Leslie

The big picture is the Trials and Olympics. I just have to keep focused for that, keep moving forward.
- Ryan Lochte

My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward.
- Kenny Loggins

There is trust in there being a Spirit who loves me and wants me to have love in my life. I trust in this higher power, it is what keeps me moving forward no matter what happens.
- Kenny Loggins

People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.
- Greg Louganis

Moving forward is the only way to survive.
- Tahereh Mafi

Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and sea. But man's capacity to inflict and endure pain is constant. Man's desire for power, to beat down his competition - it hasn't changed in the slightest.
- Gemma Malley

Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
- Maxwell Maltz

You can't learn from remembering. You can't learn from guessing. You can learn only from moving forward at the rate you are moved, as brightness into brightness.
- Sarah Manguso

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
- Wilma Mankiller

One of the major keys to success is to keep moving forward on the journey, making the best of the detours and interruptions, turning adversity into advantage.
- John C Maxwell

It is the Democrats who get the economic engine of this economy moving forward again.
- Terry Mcauliffe

I have worked very hard on being aware of my childhood but moving forward and not letting it bring me down emotionally. That is a hard thing - especially when you have children of your own and you remember what happened to you at that age.
- Samantha Morton

In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.
- Pranab Mukherjee

Well, you know, I think in conversations with members of the Senate and others, they all recognize that the issue of immigration is important. It's important to our nation, it's important to our public safety, it's important to our security, it's important to our economic well-being moving forward. And it's not something that's going to go away.
- Janet Napolitano

In Cleveland there is legislation moving forward to ban people from wearing pants that fit too low. However, there is lots of opposition from the plumber' union.
- Conan Obrien

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.
- Michelle Obama

We know that, when it comes to technology and the economy, if you're not constantly moving forward, then - without a doubt - you're moving backwards.
- Bill Owens

A lot of emotional stress that people go through, some people figure out a way to handle it. They have a strong enough support system to keep going and keep moving forward. And some people, they feel like they don't have that outlet.
- Terrell Owens

It's not how hard you hit. It's how hard you get hit...and keep moving forward.
- Randy Pausch

We can go back to economic plans that are only designed to benefit the wealthiest among us, like Mitt Romney. Or we can keep moving forward with President Obama's vision for a growing economy that works for middle-class families in North Carolina and all across the country. For me, for North Carolina and for America, it's an easy choice.
- Bev Perdue

Not the man that I use to be. Wouldn't even recognize him now...if he was right here standing next to me. Just moving forward, pressing on down the roads helping all that I see... evoluting daily for the very good of me!
- Timothy Pina

In life it's not how you fall but how you get up that really counts! Don't let mistakes from your past haunt and hold you back...always keep moving forward in your life
- Timothy Pina

We all have something in our rear view mirrors that will try and distract us from moving forward...Unfortunately some greater than others. But if we keep our minds focus in the present no matter how hard it gets...The Universe has no other alternative but to take us to where we need to be in our lives!
So Stay STRONG. Be HAPPY And ALWAYS Keep FOCUS
- Timothy Pina

From an early age I was told that I was expected to do more than continue to run a small business. Education was important and seen as a way of moving forward.
- John Pople

Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.
- Bill Shuster

Our national security is at risk when we rely on foreign oil to keep our economy moving forward.
- Bill Shuster

The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.
- Louise Slaughter

I've found that sitting around and obsessing about projects moving forward, when there's actually nothing I can do about it, at a certain point, is really counter-productive.
- Danny Strong

I am pretty embroiled in moving on and moving forward with music.
- Andy Summers

Actually, as president of the Conference of Mayors, we passed the Simpson-Bowles plan as a template, as a template, as a frame work for moving forward and the president has done the same.
- Antonio Villaraigosa

You know, bicycling isn't just a matter of balance," I said. "it's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground. I'm going to call that the Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life.
- Susan Vreeland

Bicyclist's Philosophy of Life...It's a matter of faith. You can keep upright only by moving forward. You have to have your eyes on the goal, not the ground.
- Susan Vreeland

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

You will do well in everything you seek out to do...because you don't give up. Others make mistakes, fall down, lose heart, and you do too, but you don't give up. You don't lose yourself in the process. You keep moving forward and pushing for only the very best' (Miss Shaw to Daisy, 'Friendship on Fire', p. 446)
- Danielle Weiler

The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.
- Deryck Whibley

The dictionary says progress means moving forward. Herbert Hoover was just a boy in Iowa. Then he lived all over the world helping solve problems. Now he is president of the United States. That is progress. And Iowas is part of progress. So I am part of progress. - Tugs Button
- Anne Ylvisaker

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