Can't Move Forward Quotes

#1. You can't move forward until you look back.

Cornel West

#2. You can't move forward looking backwards.

Delores Thornton

#3. You can't move forward while staring out the rear view mirror

Senica Evans

#4. ... dwelling and planning is bullshit," he says. "You dwell on the past, you can't move forward. Spend too much time planning for the future and you just push yourself backwards, or you say stagnant in the same place all your life." His eyes lock on mine. "Live in the moment.

J.A. Redmerski

#5. Doc says I can't move forward until I face the past.
But what the fuck does she know?

Monica Murphy

#6. I told myself, Malala, you have already faced death. This is your second life. Don't be afraid - if you are afraid, you can't move forward.

Malala Yousafzai

#7. Any defensiveness is a sign of failure. You can't move forward if you are defensive.

Bryant McGill

#8. When you hold on to anger and unforgiveness, you can't move forward.

Mary J. Blige

#9. If we can't stand up to the never good enough and who do you think you are? we can't move forward.

Brene Brown

#10. Break any ties - good or bad, emotional or spiritual - with any former relationships. You can't move forward into the future if you have a foot stuck in the past.

Stormie O'martian

#11. You can't move forward in your life ...
If you constantly look at the roads you left behind you. Stay focus on what you want to accomplish today and tomorrow will be a much brighter day!

Timothy Pina

#12. You can't move forward if you're still hanging on.

Sue Fitzmaurice

#13. You can't fix everything in life; you must leave some things unfixed to move forward! Do not feel bad about this, because you have no time to fix everything! Leave the unfixed there and move forward!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#14. You can't subvert knowledge until you have knowledge ... At the same time, I respect a student coming at it from a totally different position and trying to move it forward, and not falling into the rattrap of work that came before.

Louise Wilson

#15. Getting from point A to point Z can be daunting unless you remember that you don't have to get from A to Z. You just have to get from A to B. Breaking big dreams into small steps is the way to move forward.

Sheryl Sandberg

#16. We can't expect to effectively move forward with half the population carrying sandbags.

Lauren Fleshman

#17. The important aspect shouldn't be whose administration it is, the important aspect should be how does the state of Wisconsin work, what can we do to move Wisconsin forward.

Scott McCallum

#18. I don't believe in regrets. There are a few things I'd do differently, but I can't go back in time and redo them, however much I might wish to. All I can do is learn from past mistakes and move forward.

Malorie Blackman

#19. Things aren't always going to be in our favor, so when they aren't, we have to take what we can from those experiences and move forward.

Alexandra Elle

#20. You can't move things by not moving.

Suzy Kassem

#21. The past can't be changed, but the path we choose to move forward on can.

Theresa Sederholt

#22. I can't go back, and neither can you. We both have to move forward and find what beauty we can in the world as it is." Daniel

Elise Kova

#23. But I can't go back. I can only explore today and enjoy it as I move forward.

Roland Byrd

#24. The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.

Alex Witchel

#25. You can't really move forward until you look back.
[From Remaking America panel discussion at George Washington University]

Cornel West

#26. No company can afford not to move forward. It may be at the top of the heap today but at the bottom of the heap tomorrow, if it doesn't.

James Cash Penney

#27. After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward.

Zeena Schreck

#28. The most important thing is, how can I move forward towards something that I can't articulate, that is new in storytelling with moving images and sound?

Martin Scorsese

#29. I'd be the first person to say I can't write dialogue. My dialogue is very utilitarian and is designed to move things forward. I'm not Shakespeare. It's not designed to be poetic.

George Lucas

#30. My father used to say that life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. (Simone)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#31. You can't go back and change your mistakes or the wrongs that have been done to you. But by surviving them and helping others in their own despair ... will help all move forward to better, brighter days.

Timothy Pina

#32. As we embark on a new chapter of our lives, our focus must be on what the future holds. We can look back from the old memories but mustn't stay there and be stagnant for life is meant to let you move forward and not backwards.

Elizabeth E. Castillo

#33. By figuring out how the experience can help you move forward. That's the point of why it happened to you in the first place. There's something you're suppose to get from the moment that'll get you closer to your mission if you can see it. Most people can't.

Daniel Black

#34. When we move forward into our future, knowing and using the treasures within, then only good lies before us. We can know and affirm that everything that happens to us is for our highest good and greatest joy, truly believing that we can't go wrong.

Louise Hay

#35. I know you're not like that anymore, Kane. While I don't approve of the person you used to be, I can't change the past. Lord knows I would if I could. The only thing to do is move forward, and if you want, I would love for you to do so with me.

Amanda Stone

#36. You can't be a big dreamer if you don't where you are going. You can't know where you are going unless you first know where you are.

Israelmore Ayivor

#37. I know I'm happy and can't wait to see where my career will go next. This isn't the end for any of us. I can understand why they are upset but I want them to move forward and look for the future.

LaToya London

#38. You can't have a hit every time. The main thing is to keep on working and not be afraid to take risks. It's better to do something that's not perfect and successful every time. It's important to be fearless and move forward, to learn from what went wrong.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#39. The image of me as someone who likes or can deal with a fight is wrong. Some people enjoy competition and dustups, and I wish I did, but I don't. But once you have started down a path, then I think you have to move forward. You can't give up.

Katharine Graham

#40. We have to let go of fears of things we can't do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positives.

Jay Woodman

#41. Ideas, even million-dollar ones, are most vulnerable in their infancy; don't share them with too many people. However, don't hide your plan from people who can help you move it forward.

Sara Blakely

#42. I can't go back through time and change things, but I can move forward and create the life I want.

Jessica Sorensen

#43. Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore?' Then I stop thinking and start playing guitar, and I realize that it's okay to suck, and move forward.

Pink

#44. You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.

Adam Beach

#45. Whenever relationships can't be restored, it's because someone is not willing to move forward in the promises of God.

Matt Chandler

#46. At times when I am myself sitting at a retreat, and at the end I get into my car to drive away, I watch my hand move forward to turn on the radio. When I can be mindful, I notice the fact that I actually don't want in that moment to listen to the news or hear some music.

Sharon Salzberg

#47. I do a lot of lectures on survival. I always say you can't change what happened, so have a little wallow, feel very sorry for yourself, and then get up and move forward. You can't change what happened.

Joan Rivers

#48. Whenever you can, swap "Let's think about it" for "Let's decide on it." Commit to making decisions. Don't wait for the perfect solution. Decide and move forward.

Jason Fried

#49. I can sit here and say I've survived heart break and all those nights I thought I couldn't bare to live without you, yeah I just want to thank them, because I did & now I couldn't imagine a life with you.

Nikki Rowe

#50. You can't get back the time in the past. You can't change it. You can only make sure to learn and move forward.

J.B. McGee

#51. The truth is that as we move forward, if one side says we can't raise any taxes on anybody or any interest, and the other side says we can't cut anything, we're obviously not going to make progress on this. And our interest is in making progress on this.

David Axelrod

#52. We can't go backward. There are too many regrets. Please just move forward with me?

Renee Carlino

#53. Classical scores go up and down; they're kind of hysterical in a way. And movie scores are much more - they just drive and move forward, and they build and can't go up and down at that same speed. It's a big job to turn that into something that pushes the movie along.

Darren Aronofsky

#54. You couldn't begin to imagine who I am, where I'm going, or what I'm about to do, All of you are trapped here. You can't go anywhere, forward or back. But I'm not like you. I have work to do. I have a mission to accomplish. And so, with your permission, I shall move ahead.

Haruki Murakami

#55. To move forward today, you must learn to say good-bye to yesterday's hurts, tragedies and baggage. You can't build a monument to past problems and fail forward.

John C. Maxwell

#56. In the end, you have to forgive in order to heal and move forward with your life. For people who hurt you very deeply, you don't have to forgive them for their sake but for your sake, so that you can move forward and have a healthier and happier life.

Dominique Moceanu

#57. Sometimes we may seem to be resisting letting go, when really, we just can't see a way to move forward - believing things can never change for someone as unworthy as us.

Bryant McGill

#58. We need to find our courage, which, of course, is not the absence of fear but rather the willingness to feel the fear and move forward anyway. Fear isn't going to kill us. It's an energy that we can allow to move through us.

Panache Desai

#59. You move forward because thats the way it works; thats the only place you can go.

Jennifer Weiner

#60. Only a positive mind can move the world forward.

Pearl Zhu

#61. It's not the good we see in the people we love, but what we refuse to see that gives us strength."
"What the hell is that supposed to mean?"
"Sometimes when we care about someone, we deny what's right in front of us so we can move forward, so we have a reason to continue to love.

V.R. Barkowski

#62. I can honestly say - not proudly, but honestly - before I had a child, I would see things on TV or hear the news, feel sad for the people and move forward with my day. Now I see everything through a mother's eyes.

Marissa Jaret Winokur

#63. I've got a pen and I've got a phone - and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive actions and administrative actions that move the ball forward.

Barack Obama

#64. We have to let go of mistakes we can no longer do anything about and move forward with clarity, focus on positivity.

Jay Woodman

#65. trapped in his past, refusing to move forward. Unless this is a specific part of the character's arc, a character caught under this mountain of backstory can be painful to

Jordan McCollum

#66. Our beliefs can move us forward in life, or they can hold us back.

Oprah Winfrey

#67. Pause and remember - You alone are responsible for taking an interest in your own growth. Understanding your deepest fears and pain is what will move you forward. If you can do this, you will be rewarded with not only a deeper connection with yourself, but also with others.

Jennifer Young

#68. If we pursue a spiritual path in depth, then it changes who and what we are. There is no turning back. We can only move forward.

Vivianne Crowley

#69. The best way that we can begin to produce positive change is to make peace with what is in ourselves and others, and then work to move forward and make life even better.

Marshall Goldsmith

#70. If you're feeling discouraged and defeated - don't quit. Play on, hope on, and move forward. The music you play - even in the midst of incredible darkness - can and will turn the tide of your own battles.

Seth Adam Smith

#71. I never dwell on what happened. You can't change it. Move forward. Don't waste your energy on being angry at something that somebody did six months ago or a year ago. It's over. Done. Move forward.

Joan Rivers

#72. The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.

Taylor Branch

#73. 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

#74. Industry stakeholders have said to us, which we've heard loud and clear, as we move forward on the climate change discussions we need to do it with a clear eye on the fact that we are also having conversations around royalties and the two can't be separated.

Rachel Notley

#75. If you keep looking back, you'll never be able to move forward. You're the only one who can stop yourself from your own success.

B.A. Gabrielle

#76. have forced myself to move forward, but I can never move on.

Lisa See

#77. Clearly, if it is sensible to hold a referendum on independence, it is crucial that we have one on marriage. It is the only way the country can move forward on this issue. Let all those who have a view on this subject place their trust in the Scottish people and let Scotland decide.

Keith O'Brien

#78. We all want a United Africa, United not only in our concept of what unity connotes, but united in our common desire to move forward together in dealing with all the problems that can best be solved only on a continental basis.

Kwame Nkrumah

#79. If I survive this, I can't go back. I'll have to move forward and I don't know what that means.

C.J. Roberts

#80. I think that sometimes things just get confusing and we get lost, and sometimes you can't figure out which path is the right path ... which is the right decision. Quit or move forward. Heal or break. Fight or die.I'm still figuring that out.

Jessica Sorensen

#81. You move forward, and when you falter, you get up. And when you can't, you let us carry you. You let me carry you.

Leigh Bardugo

#82. You can't dwell in your past but move forward, look forward. That's it.

Caroline Wozniacki

#83. People move on quicker than I can comprehend. People forget you within days, they take new pictures to put on Facebook and they don't read your messages. They keep on moving forward and shove you to the side because you make more mistakes than you should.

Alice Oseman

#84. The reason it has taken so long for the robotics industry to move forward is because people keep trying to make something that is cool but difficult to achieve rather than trying to find solutions to actual human problems. Technology can be extremely expensive if you don't focus.

Colin Angle

#85. When she moves a chess piece on the board, it isn't so she can win; it's to move the game forward. She's just keeping us all moving forward.

Danielle Stewart

#86. Avoid self-pity by taking responsibility for everything that happens to you, even if somebody else is at fault. By taking responsibility, I don't mean play doormat. I mean, repair yourself. Move forward. Move on. Then, only then, see if you can wrangle some empathy.

Augusten Burroughs

#87. We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward.

Barack Obama

#88. Life is like a black hole. You don't know what lies ahead. You can't ever turn back. All you can do is move forward.

Hiroshi Yamamoto

#89. The only thing we'll get from trying to figure out where another path would have taken us are questions there are no answers to, and heatbreak that can't be healed. Regardless of how we got there, all any of us can do is move forward frome where we are.

Mia Sheridan

#90. I feel so completely crazy sometimes. I don't know which way I'm facing. All I can do is just shove all this shit to the side and try to move forward.

Nic Sheff

#91. If you can't turn back the clock, you move forward.

Dori Lavelle

#92. I don't think you should necessarily listen to a celebrity just because he is one. But if you can marshal your celebrity and really steep yourself in whatever issue you're trying to promote, it can actually move the ball forward, and we've done that.

Rob Reiner

#93. We can move America forward with a strong middle class. We can move America forward with a strong Democratic majority in the Senate. And together we can move America forward with Barack Obama in the White House.

Harry Reid

#94. If you're doing anything interesting in the world, you are going to have critics. You can't stop it. Move forward. It's not worth losing any sleep over.

Jeff Bezos

#95. Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.

Jane Powell

#96. How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light.

Questlove

#97. Drink up your false courage and move forward. It's the only direction a man can move in.

Robin Hobb

#98. If you find yourself plagued by a recurrent worry, train yourself to think of something else. Your conscious mind can concentrate on only one thought at a time, and driving the negativity away will free you up to move forward again.

Harvey MacKay

#99. Perceive everything in life with the neutral perspective and see how everything can serve you to move forward on your path.

Roshan Sharma

#100. Life is what you make it. Today is the first day of the rest of your life. You can't change the past, but the future isn't set in stone. You can effect a change there. Move forward not with hatred or love. Move forward with purpose. ========== Dream Chaser (Kenyon, Sherrilyn)

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