Top 100 Quotes About Forward Progress
#1. Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.
John C. Maxwell
#2. Courage means to keep making forward progress while you still feel afraid!
Joyce Meyer
#3. I don't believe in "writer's block". I try and deal with getting stuck by having more than one thing to work on at a time. And by knowing that even a hundred bad words that didn't exist before is forward progress.
Neil Gaiman
#4. Our mind takes an inventory of past events and uses them to project the probability of success in the future. Depending on the information it gathers, we either move forward - or the
fear response is triggered and forward progress is circumvented. Page 48
Nick Ortner
#5. Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.
Stephen Ambrose
#6. Attitude is everything. A wrong, negative attitude hinders your forward progress.
Nick Costello
#7. I came to L.A. for pilot season, and it was so brutal. So brutal. But still, I just want to be making forward progress. There's lots of ideas about being a superstar. But my idea of being a superstar is just going forward and having new challenges and trying out new things.
Kelly McCreary
#8. Your minds PERCEPTION of the past will change your future vision, and either prevent or propel forward progress in life.
Joe Goodrich
#9. The reason why many are still troubled, still seeking, still making little forward progress is because they haven't yet come to the end of themselves. We're still trying to give orders, and interfering with God's work within us.
A.W. Tozer
#10. In times of adversity - for the country we love - Maryland always chooses to move forward. Progress is a choice. Job creation is a choice. Whether we move forward or back: this too is a choice.
Martin O'Malley
#11. Most people aren't happy about being consistent and staying at the same place for years. People want forward progress and motion.
El-P
#13. Listening and being curious and wide-eyed in the world, I think, is what allows us to move forward, progress, evolve and learn and alter our behavior and become more self-aware. I think that listening is kind of what it's all about.
Andrew Zuckerman
#14. Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.
L. Ron Hubbard
#15. It's never easy moving forward in life. But if you want to prosper & enjoy life ... keep moving ahead on that road. Forward progress is always the wisest choice anyone can make.
Timothy Pina
#16. I've always favoured proposition over opposition. But we will oppose the government when it's off track.We'll support positive suggestions that we'll bring forward and support the government when it's making progress.
Jack Layton
#17. My life has a mysterious purpose that I don't understand, and day by day, conflict by conflict, I learn by going where I have to go.
Dean Koontz
#18. No matter the circumstances, I encourage you to go forward with faith and prayer, calling on the Lord. You may not receive any direct revelation. But you will discover, as the years pass, that there has been a subtle guiding of your footsteps in paths of progress and great purpose.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#19. If workmen are denied any increase in real wages and they can look forward only to a better standard of living through reduction of prices, progress for them is terribly slow, and they become impatient and dissatisfied.
Charles E. Wilson
#20. A novel in progress doesn't have a clear, forward process. It's messy, like a beloved, balky child.
Kay Kenyon
#21. There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#22. Often the greatest progress happen in the most difficult of times.
Jeanette Coron
#23. The end of foreign occupation is one of the pre-requisites if we are to witness any progress in our efforts to help Iraq go forward.
Amr Moussa
#24. You're always learning on different avenues and this is an opportunity for me to start on a fresh plate and start learning some other things that can really help me, that I need, and I want, to progress forward.
Elvis Stojko
#25. We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.
David A. Bednar
#26. Reform is the mission from which we shall not digress; it is an expression of belief and determination between us and our people. With the help of Allah, we will proceed forward in this promising national process within the natural progress of the life cycle and the development of people and nation.
Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa
#28. An original sentence, a step forward, is worth more than all the censures.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#29. People fascinated by the idea of progress never suspect that every step forward is also a step on the way to the end and that behind all the joyous 'onward and upward' slogans lurks the lascivious voice of death urging us to make haste.
Milan Kundera
#30. As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress.
Confucius
#31. Progress in science is governed by the laws of repulsion, every step forward is made by refutation of prevalent errors and false theories. Forward steps in art are governed by the law of attraction, are the result of imitation of and admiration for beloved predecessors.
Boris Pasternak
#32. We must begin where we are and move forward immediately by starting small and capitalizing on what's at hand.
Mike Schmoker
#33. Loss is the price we pay for progress," she said. "Only as we leave things behind do we move forward.
Robert B. Parker
#34. Life's a daily work in progress. Always move forward reaching new goals. Hit a road block? Keep calm & stay strong.
Timothy Pina
#35. I think we have made progress. There's no doubt about it, we have moved forward. But there's some essential, core thing that has not been deconstructed. And I'm telling you, it's connected to the body. I know it is.
Eve Ensler
#36. 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
#37. The further humanity advances forward the faster and more dynamically it moves. Therefore, we cannot reduce the speed of our progress.
Sunday Adelaja
#38. The primary ingredient for progress is optimism. The unwavering belief that something can be better drives the human race forward.
Simon Sinek
#40. It is hopeless trying to go forward when you are looking backward.
Nancy Astor
#41. Always put your best foot forward, because you never know where your next step may lead you.
Stephan Labossiere
#42. Forward-thinking teachers and school administrators across the country are creating a whole range of alternatives to cookie-cutter teaching and evaluation methods, such as the use of student portfolios and exhibitions in addition to conventional exams to assess students' progress.
Hillary Rodham Clinton
#43. If we make ourselves worthy of America's ideals, if we do not forget that our nation was founded on the premise that all men are creatures of God's making, the world will come to know that it is free men who carry forward the true promise of human progress and dignity.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#44. He must examine his objectives and see that true progress is achieved through moving forward to a better way of life, rather than upward to total life incompetence.
Laurence J. Peter
#45. So what if you're scared spitless? So what if you're intimidated, insecure or inundated with doubt? If it's the thing that will advance you, do it anyway. Forward movement always begins with an inward decision.
Toni Sorenson
#46. Progress. Just make progress. It's okay to have setbacks and the need for do-overs. It's okay to draw a line in the sand and start over again - and again. Just make sure you're moving the line forward. Move forward. Take baby steps ... Then change will come. And it will be good.
Lysa TerKeurst
#47. We cannot move forward if we allow the past to pull us back.
Rodrigo Duterte
#48. In life, it take strides forward, but you always take a few steps back. But in the end, if you take more steps forward than backward, you're making progress.
Carmen Rodrigues
#49. The world is to be carried forward by truth, which at first offends, which wins its way by degrees, which the many hate and would rejoice to crush.
William Ellery Channing
#50. No great advancement has ever been kept at bay because of ideology, nor greed. Eventually progress moves us forward.
Mark Ruffalo
#51. God is concerned that you succeed, that you make progress, that you keep moving forward. All you need to do is understand and do His will.
Sunday Adelaja
#52. God has got everything worked out; He has everything set and in place to make us successful. He knows that if our life is going to progress, we need to keep moving forward, and not go backwards.
Sunday Adelaja
#53. The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
#54. Always attack. Even in defense, attack. The attacking arm possesses the
initiative and thus commands the action. To attack makes men brave; to defend
makes them timorous.
Steven Pressfield
#55. I reach forward for him, expecting to feel the hardness of his chest or at the very least one of his arms coming to halt my progress, but there is nothing. I expand my reach a little and then, feeling slightly spooked, I listen ... Nothing. No breathing, no footsteps; nothing.
Felicity Brandon
#56. In the history of a soul's evolution there is a critical point of the human incarnation that decides for us whether we stay there, go down or progress upwards. There is a knot of worldly desires impeding us; cut the knot by mastering desires and go forward. This done, progress is assured.
Virchand Gandhi
#57. Whenever you take a step forward, you are bound to disturb something.
Indira Gandhi
#58. One of the most moral acts is to create a space in which life can move forward.
Robert M. Pirsig
#59. After that it was easy. It was the most impossible thing I'd ever done, but it was also easy. I held on to Jamie, and I kept moving forward.
Kimberly Brubaker Bradley
#60. Perhaps nothing is so fraught with significance as the human hand, this oldest tool with which man has dug his way from savagery, and with which he is constantly groping forward.
Jane Addams
#61. His progress was more lateral than forward.
John Scalzi
#62. Don't try to rush progress. Remember
a step forward, no matter how small, is a step in the right direction. Keep believing.
Kara Goucher
#63. If you have something that people connect with, you want to keep telling that story and progressing forward.
Carlos Saldanha
#64. Progress begins with the minority. It is completed by persuading the majority, by showing the reason and the of the step forward, and that is accomplished by appealing to the intelligence of the majority.
George William Curtis
#65. So black was the way ahead that my progress consisted of long periods of inert despondency punctuated by spasmodic lurches forward towards any small chink of light that I thought I saw ... As the years went by, it did not get lighter but I became accustomed to the dark
Quentin Crisp
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation.
Elie Ducommun
#69. We know that progress is not inevitable. But neither was victory upon these beaches. Now, as then, the inner voice tells us to stand up and move forward. Now, as then, free people must choose.
William J. Clinton
#70. Creation takes things forward. Without anything new there is no progress. Creation equals new.
Rei Kawakubo
#71. There's good economic progress in Malaysia. People have a lot to look forward to.
Najib Razak
#72. Our scars are like the rings in a tree trunk, showing its progress through life. How we heal and move forward through adversity . . . that is what makes the difference.
Morgan Rhodes
#73. The master action to move forward, is a form of inaction; being still and quiet.
Bryant McGill
#74. To move forward, simply set your intentions, be grateful for what you have, be open to what is possible, and the rest will happen, as a beautiful and effortless journey of cooperation and listening.
Bryant McGill
#75. We have a talent for disguising greed under the cloak of freedom. As for past acts of depravity, we prefer to ignore those. Progress, after all, means to look ever forward, and whatever we have trampled in our wake is best forgotten.
Steven Erikson
#76. I think progress is a sort of comfortable disease, and we've got a media that says entertainment and celebrity, which isn't bad in itself but it stops the real issues coming forward.
Anita Roddick
#77. Advent means "coming." Note that it is an action in progress, an act not yet accomplished, one we look forward to with renewed hope. Therefore, it is a time of expectation and preparation. It is a time of waiting and watching, of preparing our hearts and minds for the coming of Jesus Christ.
Nan Lewis Doerr
#78. 'Neon Future' is, in short, a positive outlook on human progress and technology, looking forward to a bright, colorful utopia. It's embracing the future and looking toward the future in a more optimistic way.
Steve Aoki
#79. The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
T. Harv Eker
#80. Humans may progress. They may think that they are moving forward because they have invented clever machines and because they control the land and sea. But man's capacity to inflict and endure pain is constant. Man's desire for power, to beat down his competition - it hasn't changed in the slightest.
Gemma Malley
#81. Love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.
Paulo Coelho
#82. My two favourite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people forward without wasting anything. The perfect day: riding a bike to the library.
Peter Golkin
#83. Government spending is being restrained, the economy is making progress and moving forward, and the pro-growth, tax cutting policies put in place have allowed businesses to grow, which has brought in additional tax revenue to help pay off the debt.
Bill Shuster
#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. There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
Edgar Cayce
#86. The whole point in moving forward is to leave things behind. Once you look back, you stop moving forward. Understanding this makes you move on easier.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#87. Don't let pain keep you from moving forward. It shouldn't stop your progress - it should drive it.
Rachel Van Dyken
#88. I must tell you that I am committed, as the president of Iraq, to benchmarks and to do our best to achieve some progress forward for national reconciliation.
Jalal Talabani
#89. Progress-progress is the dirtiest word in the language-who ever told us- And made us believe it-that to take a step forward was necessarily, was always A good idea?
Edna St. Vincent Millay
#90. The Church should go forward along the path of progress and be no longer satisfied only to represent the Conservative Party at prayer.
Maude Royden
#91. 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
#92. Let us hush this cry of 'Forward', till ten thousand years have gone.
Alfred Tennyson
#93. Progress is heading in a forward direction and realizing what was behind is now your legacy!
K.C. Rhoads
#94. Every age has its problem, by solving which humanity is helped forward.
Heinrich Heine
#95. Keep Moving ...
Move forward
Let go
Give in
Decide
and just Do
Progress every day
And make one step forward no matter what's in your way
Keep moving, till one day you wake up and you're there.
Emma Daley
#96. Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.
Swami Vivekananda
#97. It is the next step forward on the path to the sunrise, and the sun is rising over a new heaven and a new earth.
M. Carey Thomas
#98. One of the greatest source of danger in life is to find the right path and stand on it. If you find the right way, run on it, don't stand on it. Something may be coming from behind; it will surely crush you when you are static.
Israelmore Ayivor
#99. History is a set of repeating circles, like the tide. The wind does blow through the ruins of tomorrow. But it is more a question of two steps forward, one step back. Humans and dragons make the same mistakes, again and again, but things do get better over time
Cressida Cowell
#100. In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.
Luther Burbank
