Step Forward Step Back Quotes

#1. One cannot dance well unless one is completely in time with the music, not leaning back to the last step or pressing forward to the next one, but poised directly on the present step as it comes.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#2. When something like that comes along, whether it's an accident or a savvy or a very first kiss, life takes a turn and you can't step back. All you can do is keep moving forward and remember what you've learned.

Ingrid Law

#3. Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward

Erika Taylor

#4. It's a very slow process - two steps forward, one step back - but I'm inching in the right direction.

Rob Reiner

#5. In a real relationship, you take two steps forward, one step back. So just because we take two steps forward and get all the benefit from that doesn't mean we can't go back or to the side.

Shelley Long

#6. It's hard sometimes to take a step back and realize what's happened because you're always trying to move forward. You're always looking at the next palette.

Alexander Wang

#7. Be yourself. Be true to that, to your heart. Patience. See what happens if you step back instead of bounding forward.

Nora Roberts

#8. Humanity is a crazy contradiction. I accept us for who we are. We're not that great. Every time we take a step forward we go back to the same primitive behavior. We're meant to be this way. It's not our fault, it's just who we are.

Colin Quinn

#9. Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.

Vince McMahon

#10. To experience the agony of defeat makes you stronger. It's like taking one step back and two steps forward. To experience the agony of defeat makes you appreciate the experience of winning. That's what makes a champion.

Leon Spinks

#11. I took a little break - I was coming back to work and the last thing I was going to do was take a step backwards, so I knew that if I was going to take a feature it was going to have to be taking a step forward.

Nia Long

#12. intrigues of love are unfolding as they do among the young, and as they do as well among the snails on the lettuce and the shiny green beetles that plague the kale. Murmurings, the shrug of a shoulder, the step forward, the step back. Toby

Margaret Atwood

#13. Yes, creation is moving toward us; life is moving toward us all the time. We back away, but it keeps pushing toward us. Why not step forward and greet it.

Joan Halifax

#14. While you'll feel compelled to charge forward it's often a gentle step back that will reveal to you where you and what you truly seek.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#15. In the course of this one day, several things have taken a decisive step forward. The gears have turned forward with a click. And gears that have turned forward never turn back. That is one of the world's rules.

Haruki Murakami

#16. Honestly, I feel like I spent the last 10 years just trying to work, just get my hands on the best material I could. I'd like to say that it was quite calculated and genius, my ability to take one step forward and two steps back.

Timothy Olyphant

#17. Sometimes when we don't know how to move forward, it's best to take a step back.

Evinda Lepins

#18. It's a long journey - the change can only be measured in increments of five years at a time. For every two steps forward, there is one step back. Don't let that discourage you, because you can play a big part in ensuring that measurable change takes place in the coming decade.

Jack Norris

#19. Life is a journey. As you walk along the road you can either look back or you can look ahead ... Look ahead. Always look for the very next step.

Glenn Beck

#20. Progression and regression go hand in hand with mental health. It is a tough illness. You often take one step forward and ten steps back.

Theresa Larsen

#21. Sometimes it takes more strength to step back than forward.

Emily R. King

#22. I kept taking one step forward and two back. Then I went all the way around backwards and arrived where I had dreamed of going.

Bryant McGill

#23. If we do not step forward, then we step back. If we do not protect a right, then we deny it.

Paul Martin

#24. 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

#25. God she hated the dance. A blow to the cheek one minute and discussing a romantic getaway the next. It was the one step forward, two steps back waltz. She wanted to scream. Sitting on the side of the bed, Claire allowed herself tears and swallowed

Aleatha Romig

#26. Let's not look back in anger, or forward in fear but around in awareness. Let's see the beauty in everything. Let's create opportunities. Let's step out of something ordinary into something extraordinary!

Angela Rockwood

#27. Extraordinary individuals take one step back and two steps forward with most every challenge-and sometimes two steps back to one step forward. They harvest useful lessons and knowledge from what doesn't work, and they display a remarkable resiliency; and ability to bounce back from adversity.

Jerry I. Porras

#28. Don't stand back with your arms folded; step forward ... There is hope and light to resist injustice and promote peace without violence.

Adolfo Perez Esquivel

#29. Whenever I took a step forward, it seemed as though life was pushing me five steps back.

Jenni Rivera

#30. He took a step back the way he had come.
No, he decided. Going back is Da's way. Whatever happens, I'm going forward.

Peter V. Brett

#31. A small step forward is better than one back.

Jeff Talarigo

#32. Sometimes being brave means having to leave things behind and taking that step forward without looking back.

Tanya

#33. He closes the door and turns around to face me with his hands behind his back. He studies me intensely, and it makes me squirm. "You know, you're not like I thought you'd be," he says, taking a step forward. "Yet, at the same time

Jessica Sorensen

#34. When you're fighting for civil rights, it's sometimes two steps forward and one step back. Civil rights are an evolution; and you have to bring people along.

Gloria Allred

#35. For every step forward in electronic communications, we've taken two steps back in humanity. People know how to use a computer and answering machines but have forgotten how to connect with one another. Our society is unraveling. We're too self-obsessed.

Letitia Baldrige

#36. I have a big-picture outlook, I am willing to fall, and I understand it's ok to fall, but I am going to get back up, I may take a step back, but in the end, I am going to take a giant leap forward.

Tiger Woods

#37. I need to do a concert to celebrate David Bowie's electronic music. And in so doing, I'm not taking a step back, I'm taking a step forward and presenting it in its entirety so people can understand this type of visionary.

Carlos Alomar

#38. You can't go back. Can't fix what broke. But you can go forward. And every step matters. Every one makes a difference." She pushed away from the desk, cupped his face in her hands. "From where I'm standing, you're the best step I ever took.

J.D. Robb

#39. Yes, I could turn away and ignore everything in my heart. Leave it to someone else! Maybe hundreds have! But maybe I choose to step forward, instead of stepping back.

Mary E. Pearson

#40. Courage is holding on one minute longer than everyone else. Courage is stepping forward when every fiber of your being says step back. Courage is being willing to do the impossible because it is the right thing to do.

Blaine Lee Pardoe

#41. The first ghost to leave the world of the dead was Roger. He took a step forward, and turned to look back at Lyra, and laughed in surprise as he found himself turning into the night, the starlight, the air ... and then he was gone, leaving behind such a vivid little burst of happiness.

Philip Pullman

#42. Neil Leckman
I had a friend once that told me when we die and get to the pearly gates we are admitted based on our deeds.
1 good deed is a step forward
1 bad deed is two steps back.
By the time he's through with you I'm not sure you'll even be able to see the gates!!

Neil Leckman

#43. Putting down the power right from the whistle would be ugly and brutal, but it would get the job done. He wanted to tell her that, but this was the thing with coaching: you had to step back at exactly the moment you ached to step forward.

Chris Cleave

#44. Moving forward is not always good, especially when there is a precipice ahead! Know to turn back! Know to step back! Sometimes moving backwards is moving forward!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#45. Relationship depends upon how strong efforts you make to carry it forward. easiest thing is to step back and change the track, choose now.

Himmilicious

#46. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.

Abraham H. Maslow

#47. Every time the Catholic Church takes one step forward, it seems to take one giant step back.

Janine Di Giovanni

#48. Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

Hal Sparks

#49. Probably the most important aspect of individual defensive play is the 'close-out.' This approach to the ball should be made in a 'step-drag action' with advanced foot moving forward first and then the back foot in a boxer's type shuffling of the feet.

Tex Winter

#50. So it is in life ... In search of the truth, people make two steps forward and one step back. Sufferings, mistakes, and the tedium of life throw them back, but the thirst for truth and a stubborn will drive them on and on. And who knows? Maybe they'll row their way to the real truth ...

Anton Chekhov

#51. Two steps forward ... one step back ... I've always hated that old cliche too ... I believe that we should all be able to dance through life and only change the tempo now and then.

Isabelle Rowan

#52. In the search for truth human beings take two steps forward and one step back. Suffering, mistakes and weariness of life thrust them back, but the thirst for truth and stubborn will drive them forward. And who knows? Perhaps they will reach the truth at last.

Anton Chekhov

#53. Taking a step forward, I stood in the light, tilted my head back and closed my eyes. It held my face and wrapped its arms around my shoulders, and for the very first time, I let hope in. (Lillian Hunt)

Jennifer DeLucy

#54. Growth is an erratic forward movement: two steps forward, one step back. Remember that and be very gentle with yourself.

Julia Cameron

#55. Because,' Quince says, leaning forward until I step back, 'he's a little boy who doesn't like other people playing with his toys.

Tera Lynn Childs

#56. I also know two steps forward and one step back is the rule, not the exception, as people work on change.

Madeline Levine

#57. I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

Victoria Moran

#58. Sure, it may be one step forward and two steps back, but after a time with Parkinson's, I've learned that what is important is making that step count; always looking up.

Michael J. Fox

#59. You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.

Abraham Maslow