Top 100 Push Forward Quotes
#1. People do support themselves as artists and writers, so there's no need to be all doom and gloom about it. You just have to push forward. You have to follow your vision and hope for the best. You have to write for love.
Cheryl Strayed
#2. Everybody had to conform, find a mold to fit into. Doctor, lawyer, soldier
it
didn't matter what it was. Once in the mold you had to push forward. Sussex was as helpless as the
next man. Either you managed to do something or you starved in the streets.
Charles Bukowski
#3. I have a lot of respect for my fellow young actors. It takes a lot to push forward after being told no a million times, and that was what we all have to go through. So those who push deserve respect.
Colton Haynes
#4. To expect the other people to spoon-feed you shows the lack of hunger, thirst or drive to push forward the things you desire to accomplish.
Euginia Herlihy
#5. I wish I could've lived my life without making any wrong turns. But that's impossible. A path like that doesn't exist. We fail. We trip. We get lost. We make mistakes. And little by little, one step at a time, we push forward. It's all we can do. On our own two feet.
Natsuki Takaya
#6. I clench my teeth and push forward. My pen grinds out the first and eldest word: an Ink-borne lance of black fire, scratched into a sheet of ice.
-The Penitent God
S.G. Night
#7. Technically, the last number of years, partially from the injury, it's been difficult to push forward but I felt even before the injury that I still could do more and was sort of at a stalemate.
Elvis Stojko
#8. Either you push forward with the things that you were doing yesterday or you start dying.
Elizabeth Edwards
#9. Pulling out onto the highway I noticed a stone pillar commemorating the Donner Party. They were a true testament to the American spirit, push forward at all costs and eat the dead when necessary. Wasn't that the American dream in a nutshell.
Josh Stallings
#10. I often felt as a player in a 4-4-2, you end up being outnumbered in midfield and chasing the ball, so as a manager I liked wingbacks to push forward; it gives the midfield player on the ball three or four options.
Glenn Hoddle
#11. We think we move, we run, we push forward, but, I think, in many ways we are still running in place, trapped in a moment that happened to us long ago.
Robert Jackson Bennett
#12. Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear.
Horace
#13. I have gotten over feeling badly. We would be eternally miserable if our errors worried us too much because as we push forward we will make plenty more.
Ernest Lawrence
#14. Daring to reach, to climb, to crawl, to scratch, to get back up when you've been knocked down, to push forward - ever forward - to forgive. It means sacrificing everything if necessary, to carve out a place for your own existence. It means living.
Malcolm X
#15. The great thing about living in New York is the constant change of things. It inspires me to keep moving, push forward, question ideas.
John Varvatos
#16. I feel her hips push forward against mine.
And any blood left in my body descends, making me harder than I've ever been in my life.
Weeks of want and frustration are coursing through me. I've brushed with Colgate for far too
long - and it's tasted like shit.
Emma Chase
#17. Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: 'One must not hide that!' Then someone tells you: 'The shoulder is on the back'. I have never seen women with shoulders on their backs.
Coco Chanel
#18. So there really was a whole series of things that took the women of my generation a little bit of time to push forward.
Madeleine Albright
#19. Things that are present - whether it's a conversation with someone who is really grounded in the moment, a movie that feels authentic, or a moment in nature where you feel nothing but the present. It motivates me to truly ground myself, breathe, and push forward. Crashing waves.
Jonathan Keltz
#20. When you hear that something can't be done, ignore that advice and push forward.
Robert Kiyosaki
#21. Go easy. You may have to push forward, but you don't have to push so hard. Go in gentleness, go in peace. Do not be in so much of a hurry. At no day, no hour, no time are you required to do more than you can do in peace.
Melody Beattie
#22. So many times, people want you to stay the way you were, be as you were before because they want to encapsulate you in a time so they can remember their youth. But you're here to continually push forward and move forward. That's where I'm at - I just want to always surprise people.
Maxwell
#23. 2. The instant the doors open, you want to push forward as hard as possible, in an effort to get onto the train without letting anybody off. This is very important. If anybody does get off, it is legal to tackle him and drag him back on.
Dave Barry
#24. No one event will ever be the 'be all or end all'. It's never a big deal, so stop ever making it one. Put every challenge in perspective and push forward.
Kevin Abdulrahman
#25. I support women, men, anybody who is in a place that's not their strongest and who is ready to push forward.
Jennifer Aniston
#26. I've told you to look for opportunity, dear Tess. Keep your head up, not down. Don't settle for safety. Push forward-you are not foolish to try.
Kate Alcott
#27. And I can't get to her. My girl is half naked and dying and I can't get to her!
I push forward.
I ice solid.
I crack it and pull back.
Fuck!
Karen Marie Moning
#28. It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.
Zephyr Teachout
#29. The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.
Brian Wesbury
#30. Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.
Baltasar Gracian
#31. You can't have a movie with a group of people that are significant players in the story, that push forward the plot, without introducing at least one or two of them.
Evangeline Lilly
#32. To avoid an occasion for our virtues is a worse degree of failure than to push forward pluckily and make a fall.
Robert Louis Stevenson
#33. The most inspiring piece of advice I've gotten is simply to persevere. My mom taught me to always keep going no matter what from an early age. When it feels too difficult to push forward, I always remind myself, 'This too shall pass,' and then I redouble my efforts.
Liya Kebede
#34. Others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but a necessary, indispensable connection; that nothing good can be created that does not of its very nature push forward the destruction of the destroyers.
Ayi Kwei Armah
#35. I always push forward. It doesn't mean that I'll be perfect. I make mistakes
but I learn from my mistakes, and move on.
Elvis Stojko
#36. Be not discouraged black women of the world, but push forward, regardless of the lack of appreciation shown you.
Amy Jacques-Garvey
#37. You just deal with the cards that are dealt you and you just go on and push forward.
Ann Romney
#38. I'm one of the most optimistic persons in the world. I always believed that - there's another shot, another chance. In boxing, I never gave up. I kept trying, kept trying. Even when things seemed so dim, I continued to push forward to make something happen in my favor.
Sugar Ray Leonard
#39. You always worry and you always fear what's next. But you eventually just push forward knowing you can't really do much about getting rid of the anxiety. You see people get pets after their kids leave the house because they're so used to having something around to dote on and worry about.
Drew Magary
#40. When the winds of life are pushing you back, THAT'S when you push forward the hardest.
Yvonne Pierre
#41. The Chinese side stands ready to work with Morocco to consolidate and deepen mutually beneficial cooperation and continuously push forward the development of Sino-Moroccan ties in the spirit of boosting understanding, broadening cooperation for common development.
Wu Bangguo
#42. No person is great in and of themselves; they must touch the lives of other great beings that will inspire them, lift them, and push them forward.
Chris Brady
#43. I want to push the fast-forward button until I get back to happy.
Terry McMillan
#44. Positive Thinking and creativity are the powerful pairs to push the world forward.
Pearl Zhu
#45. Because women have been marginalised, they're more likely to behave like immigrants and continue to push themselves forward in order to avoid falling through the cracks, but I don't think a happy ending comes from matriarchy.
Hanna Rosin
#46. I think that artists and musicians can do as much harm as good for causes if they tie their names to lots of things, especially if they aren't really doing much to meaningfully push their causes forward.
Damian Kulash
#47. You need editors, not brand managers,who will push the envelope to make [a brand media property] go forward.
Seth Godin
#48. I have big emotions, and I care deeply about delivering for New Yorkers, and sometimes that means you got to push things forward - and I think New Yorkers know that.
Christine Quinn
#49. With a Nine Inch Nails show, I'm building on a legacy that comes with a certain set of expectations. I have to push that forward, I have to reinvent myself, I have to feel current and valid.
Trent Reznor
#50. The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear from thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
John Stuart Mill
#51. I was raised in a family where we were taught that the best thing you could do with your life was to really kind of push the cause of progress and justice and human rights forward.
Benjamin Jealous
#52. During our meetings in Peshawar, Abdul Haq...asked me why the United States does not pay attention to terrorism. He compared America to a huge elephant: "One hundred people push on it and it doesn't blink, but when it decides to move, it lumbers forward and crushes everything.
Peter Tomsen
#53. Get going. Move forward. Aim High. Plan a takeoff. Don't just sit on the runway and hope someone will come along and push the airplane. It simply won't happen. Change your attitude and gain some altitude. Believe me, you'll love it up here.
Donald J. Trump
#54. If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.
Freeman Dyson
#55. We can push Montana forward and we can do it with out raising taxes.
Brian Schweitzer
#56. It's like, how do you continue to make records that are representative of who you are that your fans will recognize as your band, while still trying to push things forward and present new sounds for people.
Ben Gibbard
#58. As a kid, I would push my shoulders forward in order to hide my heart from being hurt.
Daniel Breaker
#59. Love is supposed to lift you up, not hold you down. It is supposed to push you forward, not hold you back.
Suzy Kassem
#60. My job is to inspire the people, to be on top of my game and push my culture forward.
Wale
#61. The water crumbles on it's way down as my hands and feet push me forward. The world is lightening, taking shape, and turning to color. It feels like it's being painted around me.
Markus Zusak
#62. I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#63. While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It's a great thing.
Martin Margiela
#64. To succeed in driving innovation, it is essential for empowering people to push ideas forward, and the entire company to be pulling in the right direction
Pearl Zhu
#65. Some people read business books looking for confirmation. I read them in search of disquiet. Confirmation is cheap, easy and ineffective. Restlessness and the scientific method, on the other hand, create a culture of testing and inquiry that can't help but push you forward.
Seth Godin
#66. up at him while the guitar pealed in the background, she rocked back and forward, totally out of sync with the music, but caught up in the warmth of the moment. His black hair flopped down over one eye and she reached up to push it away. With one hand, he took
Ella Frank
#67. I wake up every morning and think to myself, 'How far can I push the company forward in the next 24 hours?
Leah Busque
#68. Sometimes I feel like I'm not only the engine but the caboose. I have to be in the front car and pull forward, and at the same time run around behind and push everybody along with me.
Sandra Lee
#69. You can't please everybody all the time, but I think for the most part we tend to maintain a healthy level of self-reference to kind of make sure we continue to push things forward.
Ben Gibbard
#70. Your peers are people in the business who are going to push you forward. So I think it's one of the reasons that Syracuse students come out truly ready for the industry because we've been rubbing elbows with people who are likeminded and just as 'pushy' or as ready to go as we are.
Mike Tirico
#71. Anytime you see Beyonce, Jay Z, Kanye West. Anytime a young black person's doing good, that's motivation for everybody else. Anytime, anytime, it's motivation. Use that fuel to push you forward. That's what I did.
Keke Palmer
#72. If you push yourself to stay hungry, you're always working towards at least taking steps forward. If you're taking steps forward, then you're making progress.
G-Eazy
#74. You just have to do; you can't live by the rules of what you're supposed to do. I think every person is good at something, and you just have to push that forward.
Diplo
#75. I have a very strong political outlook, and that is something I'd like to take more responsibility for in my life. I don't believe in utilising certain aspects of the power I have with celebrity to push that forward, but I would like to make some films that address some of those political issues.
Kiefer Sutherland
#76. Dare to dream big dreams. For those are the dreams that have the power to push your whole world forward.
Ralph Marston
#77. Think chest/hips/ push, or CHP, when it's time for uphill running. Chest up, hips forward, push strongly off each foot.
Jeff Galloway
#78. I knew I could play well on the grass, but I really played so well today. I knew exactly what I had to play to beat her. I just did everything I could in the moment. I was very focused for every point. I knew that I had to go forward for every shot I was playing to push her back, and yeah, I did it.
Petra Kvitova
#79. I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.
Eldridge Cleaver
#80. For many people, when they come to Twitter, the language is opaque. We need to push the scaffolding to the background and bring the content forward. The media, the photos, the videos.
Dick Costolo
#81. Always look forward and try to push pass the negativity. I think everyone's beautiful and they deserve to be happy no matter what.
Miley Cyrus
#82. Dorado Beach's rich history provided amazing inspiration to put forward a bold menu celebrating the legacy of the people and cuisine that shaped this unique destination and to push me to share some of my own stories.
Jose Andres
#83. Well, you know Esme. She wasn't one for that kind of thing - never one to push herself forward*
* She hadn't ever needed to. Granny Weatherwax was like the prow of a ship. Seas parted when she turned up.
Terry Pratchett
#84. Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage ground.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#85. And on bad days when you feel like you're stuck on a rock in the middle of nowhere, with no earth beneath you to sink your roots in, and no breeze to push your life forward, reach out to all those who ever gave you love, and believe with the faith of a child.
Sandra Kring
#86. It takes courage to push things forward.
Mo Mowlam
#87. You said that life's just like skating; I just need to kick forward and take a chance, push off the ground and follow through. And when everything works out, I'll coast.
Jay McLean
#88. Leaders are creatures of their environment, but unlike most creatures, they are also movers of it. As movers of and within the organization, they push it forward, at the same time shaping it as much as it shapes them.
John Baldoni
#89. My brain, my body, my whole life was on fast-forward and I couldn't push stop or even pause. How low it got after, living with what had happened. And then how numb. How much I missed feeling music in my bones.
Emery Lord
#90. Sometimes what makes us insecure and vulnerable becomes the fuel we need to be overachievers. The antidote for a snakebite is made from the poison, and the thing that made you go backward is the same force that will push you forward.
T.D. Jakes
#91. As a designer, you've always got to push yourself forward; you've always got to keep up with the trends or make your own trends. That's what I do.
Alexander McQueen
#92. We can choose to allow our experiences to hold us back, and to not allow us to become great or achieve greatness in this life. Or we can allow our experiences to push us forward, to make us grateful for every day we have and to be all the more thankful for those who are around us.
Elizabeth Smart
#93. 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
#94. You have to be prepared to think outside the box ... Stand back and think about what we could do creativity. We've got to do that to push the field forward.
Geoffrey Canada
#95. You'll see that excuses like "That's not easy" are of no value and that it pays to "push through it" at a pace you can handle. Like getting physically fit, the most important thing is that you keep moving forward at whatever pace you choose, recognizing the consequences of your actions.
Ray Dalio
#96. Some otherwise sane scientists have seriously proposed that we tuck this deadly garbage under the edges of drifting continents but how can they be sure the moving land masses will climb over the waste and not just push it forward?
David R. Brower
#97. ... 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
#98. When searching for help, look for the one that will push, not the one that will pull! Your machinery needs a pusher; just avoid every puller and you'll keep going forward!
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. Frankly, I think that's something that black people in America have often done - finding ways under very, very difficult circumstances to be subversive, but also to push things forward. And I think that applies to music. I think it applies to dance. I think it applies to a number of things.
Andre Holland
#100. Rather than proposing a forward-looking energy initiative, House Republicans continue to push Big Oil's tired old ideas, ideas that will do absolutely nothing to lower gas prices for the American consumer.
Jan Schakowsky
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