Going Forward Quotes

“People were messy. They were defined not only by what they'd done, but by what they would have done, under different circumstances, molded as much by their regrets as their actions, choices they stood by and those they wished they could undo. Of course, there was no going back - time only moved forward - but people could change.

For worse.

And for better.

It wasn't easy. The world was complicated. Life was hard. And so often, living hurt.

So make it worth the pain.”
― Victoria Schwab, Our Dark Duet

“No man is broken because bad things happen to him. He’s broken because he doesn’t keep going after those things happen.”
― Courtney Milan, Unraveled

“It is better to go forward without a goal, than to have a goal and stay in one place, and it is certainly better than to stay in one place without a goal.”
― Andrzej Sapkowski, Wieża Jaskółki

“Do you think the memory of someone should dictate how we live going forward?' he asks, threading and unthreading his fingers together.
'It depends,' I say. 'I think you can probably honor someone's memory, but you can't live for them, because that means living in the past.”
― Alexandra Bracken, Through the Dark

“The moment of realization is: When what you thought you couldn't be without, becomes a part of the past, rather than the start of the future.”
― Melody Carstairs

“I am not sure I can."
"Become sure," said the cat, his eyes flashing green in the firelight. "Once you leap on a boar's back, you can't sheath your claws.”
― Erin Bow, Plain Kate

“I know you don’t understand, but sometimes we have to go back to go forward,” he says.”
― Zoe Cruz, Beastia

“You can't lift a relationship up if you keep walking over the other person's mistakes.”
― Anthony Liccione

“We’re built to move on. Someone dies, no matter how close you are to them, you move on. That helps in a lot of ways.”
― Jimmy Iovine

“It seems to me that going backward sometimes means going forward.”
― Siri Hustvedt, The Shaking Woman, or A History of My Nerves

“Though people are laughing at the dirt surrounding you, they are missing to see the seeds also planted, growing silently within.”
― Anthony Liccione

“Wirewalker, trust your feet! Let them lead you; they know the way.”
― Philippe Petit, To Reach the Clouds: My High Wire Walk Between the Twin Towers

“When something affects a single minute in your life, it must leave an effect on you.”
― Kangoma Kindembo

“When going forward doesn't get you where you need to be, going back will at least keep you moving”
― Michael J. Sullivan, Age of Empyre

“Only a fool would wish to go back who he was.”
― Laurie Viera Rigler, Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict

“The wise are like a sprouting seed; they go forward and upward, never backward or downward.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo

“Life can evolve in a most positive but unexpected manner if we do not resist it and kill its tender beauty with our fears. We all have inner abilities to fulfil, a path to patiently discover, people to connect with who will become pivotal in our life, and a love of certain things which make us feel glad to be alive. Every little step in that direction, every little decision to allow that movement to happen, every brave letting go, and every open embracing will bring us what we need.”
― Donna Goddard, Love's Longing

“Reflection is the means of going forward while looking backward. Navigating the future using the past and using the lessons learned from yesterday to shape our tomorrow.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“If your body is telling you to slow down, listen to it. If your body is saying you should keep going... then keep going.”
― Lynn Swan

“Impossible? Utopic?
Sure!
But for how long?
Can any human endeavor be eternally impossible or utopic ?
A time factor should be integrated to every affirmation of utopia, or else the people affirming that would only be affirming that they are not the ones who can make it happen.”
― Haroutioun Bochnakian

“Be a follower but create another destination for others to follow. You are a complete version of a new story, - tell it your way.”
― Kangoma Kindembo

“What paralyses you with fear is someone's ladder for a living.”
― Kangoma Kindembo

“Nothing about you is worthless, unless you choose to do yourself less.”
― Kangoma Kindembo

“The biggest challenge of Going Forward is to TAKE THE NEXT RIGHT STEP.

It may be SMALL STEPS of Faith, but TAKE IT ANYWAY.”
― Benjamin Suulola

“Life changes and often we just have to go with the flow not knowing its course. Things can change because there is something better or different for us and if we don’t follow our leanings then that which once seemed fine will start to feel unsatisfactory and will dismantle because it is not right for us anymore. It becomes a burden rather than the blessing it once was. We have to trust that as we were cared for in the past, we will be cared for in the future.”
― Donna Goddard, Together

“GmWhen you do whatever it takes, you pulsate the universe to shift in your favor.”
― Hiral Nagda

“Progress always slows down before picking up again.”
― Romain Gary, The Gasp

“AI or any other human advancement system should be accepted.”
― Mitta Xinindlu

“If you abruptly stop seeing someone after a relationship crisis, it can become so awkward and difficult to see them that you never do. That creates a lot of bad karma and certainly works against healing. Even if it’s uncomfortable, it’s better to see the person.”
― Donna Goddard, Geboor: Spiritual Fiction

“We made it this far and we’re alive, aren’t we? There were times I didn’t think we’d be able to say that. To be where we are and say that. So while things can be shit, you just remember that you’re alive, and if you’re alive, that means you can take another step. And if you can take another step, then you are nowhere near close to being done.”
― T.J. Klune, The Art of Breathing