Quotes & Sayings About Moving Forward And Not Looking Back

Everything felt fragile and freshly come upon, but for now, at least, my depression had stepped back, giving me room to move forward. I had forgotten what it was like to be without it, and for a moment I floundered, wondering how I would recognize myself. I knew for certain it would return, sneaking up on me when I wasn't looking, but meanwhile there were bound to be glimpses of light if only I stayed around and held fast to the long perspective. It was a chance that seemed worth taking. — Daphne Merkin

You know you're in a good place when you no longer are interested in looking back. You prefer to enjoy the journey. — Karen Salmansohn

"Life Diamond" ... Job. Family. Society. Sense of Self ... — Wayne Dyer

Looking back is a form of insanity, given that I could really never understand what everybody else was thinking. I find these days that I'm much more efficient when I just focus on what I need to do in order to move my family forward and get the focus off me. — Grant Bowler

He nods, looking through the pictures on the screen on the back of his camera. Some relationships can only exist as memories. But unlike ephemeral digital images that can be sorted and deleted, we can't erase the past. We have to learn to live with all the images that are stored in love's archive, memories tagged good and bad. No Photoshopping. Accept the negative before moving forward. — Shannon Mullen

Let us hold fast to the iron rod. The Savior urged us to put our hand to the plow without looking back. In that spirit we are being asked to have humility and a deep and abiding faith in the Lord and to move forward-trusting in him, refusing to be diverted from our course, either by the ways of the world or the praise of the world. — Spencer W. Kimball

Although we sometimes did without a few of life's necessities, we rarely lacked for its luxuries. — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Looking back isn't going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do. — McKayla Maroney

Real liberation for men means that they can explore and integrate their feminine aspects of consciousness. — Marianne Williamson

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

Are you sure you want us to keep calling you 'Six'?"
"You can say it's short for something."
"For what? Sixty? — Pittacus Lore

201. - He who thinks he has the power to content the world greatly deceives himself, but he who thinks that the world cannot be content with him deceives himself yet more. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

In order to create a new world, we must first destroy the old one. — Andrew Cormier

Words are not swords. — George R R Martin

Evolution is nothing but matter become conscious of itself. — Julian Huxley

I ain't got no reverse. I've learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while. — Waylon Jennings

Nothing can better express the feelings of the scientist towards the great unity of the laws of nature than in Immanuel Kant's words: "Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing awe: the stars above me and the moral law within me." ... Would he, who did not yet know of the evolution of the world of organisms, be shocked that we consider the moral law within us not as something given, a priori, but as something which has arisen by natural evolution, just like the laws of the heavens? — Konrad Lorenz

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

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

I do have a very deep sense of regret that there was a conflict and that people lost their lives, and you know, many were responsible for that - and a lot of them wear pinstripe suits in London today. — Martin McGuinness

Please try not to be such a wiener-head. — Dave Barry

Someone once told me that digging up the past has two sides: The pro is that you remember things you had forgotten about. Unfortunately, the con is the exact same thing. That may scare some people away, might force them to always be moving forward, never looking back, not for a second. — Pete Wentz

VIEW FROM A HILL
I am not yet quite over it.
I am lying down on top of it.
Surveying behind me a wasteland
Of dried-up promise.
While the lights below twinkle
With dull mocking uncertainty.
There isn't much left to look forward to,
And the looking forward of the past has been belied. — John Tottenham

Those who wish to base their morality literally on the Bible have either not read it or not understood it, as Bishop John Shelby Spong, in The Sins of Scripture, rightly observed. — Richard Dawkins

Sometimes it's necessary to believe in love, even if it doesn't exist ... — Rosario Ferre