Facing Forward Quotes

#1. Live today facing forward - with your back on yesterday, your eyes on tomorrow, and your head and heart in the moment.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#2. I don't write directly on to the computer because I don't think well facing forward with fingers on a keyboard. I think better looking down holding a pen. And the concentration quotient of pen and paper is higher than when I'm moving words around on screen.

Joshua Ferris

#3. Feet on ground,
Heart in hand,
Facing forward,
Be yourself.

Jann Arden

#4. Lionel Richie told me forget about the critics. But if you come back with hit after hit, you don't have to worry about anything.

Brian McKnight

#5. He could not afford to indulge misery, to live in the past and stumble through life facing backwards.

Jonathan Renshaw

#6. In sailing, in weather, in life and death, answers are not endings and questions are not to be feared. The unknowns keep us moving forward.

Kaci Cronkhite

#7. Hannah kept her eyes forward, trained on two rows of rusted showerheads stuck in facing walls. Sixteen in all. The room was paved with white tile, chipped and discolored by age and use.

Rebecca Forster

#8. Senator Obama will be taking office at a critical juncture. There are many pressing challenges facing the international community, including the global financial crisis and global warming. We look forward to working closely with President-elect Obama and his team to address these challenges.

Helen Clark

#9. I would never wish my upbringing on anyone ... but I wouldn't take it back for the world.

Mary-Kate Olsen

#10. Life requires us to do things anyway, despite what sort of fear or monster or tragedy or suffering lurks behind that anyway.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#11. We want to go forward, but which way are we facing?

John Lennon

#12. If you ask the average guy on the street to name five companies that have truly transformed themselves over the few decades, Hewlett-Packard would be on everybody's list. You'd also put on this list GE and Johnson & Johnson.

Clayton Christensen

#13. To me, when you have people trying to put their best foot forward but facing conflict, that's when stories are the most interesting.

Jason Katims

#14. And you can't miss what you don't know. Except . . ." I lean forward so that I'm facing her. "What if we were wrong?

Jen Malone

#15. The people who move forward and overcome their fears do not have some special powers or a magic pill they take; they just have more practice in facing their fears.

Dave Anderson

#16. It is not so much a question of how far you have traveled as which way you face. It is facing life the right way, with .the right spirit, that will push you forward.

Orison Swett Marden

#17. He'd seen enough nature specials on the common room set to know that prey had eyes on the sides of their head, were constantly on guard, but predators' eyes were forward-facing, close together, unafraid.

V.E Schwab

#18. If you weren't scared,
you wouldn't be human,
you wouldn't be brave."
"What do you mean?" I ask.
"If you were fearless,
you wouldn't
need to overcome it.
Bravery means being scared
and going forward
anyway," Fia says.
"That's courage.

Leza Lowitz

#19. I never wanted to be the guy people looked at. I don't think of myself as being a celebrity; it's too mortifying.

Johnny Depp

#20. The tiger's roar filled the cave with thunder. Mother Wolf shook herself clear of the cubs and sprang forward, her eyes, like two green moons in the darkness, facing the blazing eyes of Shere Khan.

Rudyard Kipling

#21. How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?

John Lennon

#22. My final advice for young people is to not wait for leadership from adult politicians. Step forward today, because our current leaders are denying the dire reality we are facing. Leadership can come form anywhere.

Kumi Naidoo

#23. Learn to cherish the chase as much as you treasure the trophy.

Joe Caruso

#24. What I know is, you have a better chance in life-of surviving it-if you tolerate loss well;manage not to be a cynic through it all; ...
to connect the unequal things into a whole that preserves the good,even if the good is not simple to find. We try, as my sister said. We try.

Richard Ford

#25. I'm not sure if I'm looking forward to facing Brett Lee again. He bowls at 95mph so enjoyment is not the word I would use.

Andrew Flintoff

#26. Thick is the darkness
Sunward, O, sunward!
Rough is the highway
Onward, still onward!
Dawn harbors surely
East of the shadows.
Facing us somewhere
Spread the sweet meadows.
Upward and forward!
Time will restore us:
Light is above us,
Rest is before us.

William Ernest Henley

#27. 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

#28. The past could destroy you, sink its teeth deep and rip out your heart... Or your soul. She didn't know what was worse. But she knew damn well the man waiting in her office could do both. She wasn't looking forward to facing her past.

Heather R. Blair

#29. Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

Roger Ailes

#30. The moment. I think back on it. A lot. It's like revisiting a favorite place. A place you wish you could go to again. But I can't because that place doesn't exist anymore, except in my memory.

D.J. MacHale

#31. I'm going to move forward, facing in your direction with all my might.

Mika Yamamori

#32. We actually don't know the function of sleep all that well yet, but sleep is a time of quiescence in the brain.

Shelby Harris

#33. Why is the Keystone Pipeline the very first, #1 item on the Republicans' agenda? We know that this pipeline runs terrible environmental risks and it just won't do much for the American people. So why is this bill so urgent? Money and power.

Elizabeth Warren

#34. Facing the backside of the future is the only way to move forward

Benny Bellamacina

#35. I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.

Chavela Vargas