Top 100 Still Ahead Quotes
#1. Bit if you look too long at the small rights, Jake - the ones that lie close at hand - it's easy to lose sight of the big ones that stand farther off. Things are out of joint - going wrong and getting worse. We see it all around us, but the answers are still ahead.
Stephen King
#2. It seems to me, dear sister, that you still think the important thing is to become like everybody else. In reality, the important thing is to become different from the others, to discover your uniqueness. You're a rebel by birth, but that doesn't mean much. Your own rebellion is still ahead of you.
Andreas Eschbach
#3. To those of you with your years of service still ahead, the challenge is yours. Stop doubting yourselves. Have the courage to make up your minds and hold your decisions. Refuse to be BOUGHT for a nickel, or a million dollars, or a job!
Mary McLeod Bethune
#4. What we lack is not so much leisure to do as time to reflect and time to feel. What we seldom "take" is time to experience the things that have happened, the things that are happening, the things that are still ahead of us.
Margaret Mead
#5. I don't miss the frustration of youth, the anticipation of love and pain, the paralysis of choices still ahead. The pressure of "What are you going to do?" makes everybody feel like they haven't done anything yet.
Amy Poehler
#6. Tania, there is so much still ahead of you. Be patient with life
Paullina Simons
#7. The great and rare mystics of the past ... were, in fact, ahead of their time, and are still ahead of ours. In other words, they most definitely are not figures of the past. They are figures of the future.
Ken Wilber
#8. Hope is still ahead of you - but someday it will be behind you. That's really the point of children, to have someone to pin hope to.
Edward Bunker
#9. The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.
Glenn Beck
#10. I like to think that my finest hour is still ahead of me, so I can look forward rather than look backward.
Jim Coleman
#11. Canada, the drinking age is 18, that's unnecessary. Nobody wants to get loaded around people who have hope and their whole lives still ahead of them.
Doug Stanhope
#12. Even in the worst time of life, if you are still breathing, that means you are still alive. If you are still here, you haven't accomplished what is still to be accomplished. The most important part of your life is still ahead of you.
Andy Andrews
#13. I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.
Dionne Warwick
#14. I'm 28 now and they say you peak at 28 - so my best years are still ahead of me.
Kieron Dyer
#15. The best part is still ahead of me - I haven't experienced my 'good old days' yet.
Luther Vandross
#16. The day felt almost like any other day of the summer, like they'd rewound and summer was still ahead of them. But this time, from the start, there would be no question of whether they had each other or not.
This time, they would know.
Jodi Lynn Anderson
#17. I admit that the generation which produced Stalin, Auschwitz and Hiroshima will take some beating, but the radical and universal consciousness of the death of God is still ahead of us. Perhaps we shall have to colonise the stars before it is finally borne in upon us that God is not out there.
R. J. Hollingdale
#18. All I am hoping for is to be able to work - I think my best work is still ahead of me - I think all that I have been through in the last several years have only made me a better, more interesting actor.
Mickey Rourke
#19. I believe Yahoo!'s best years are still ahead of it.
Jerry Yang
#20. It's tough when you started out as young as I did to look back and see how far I've come. I try to be easy on myself and go 'Look man, you were younger, you were learning; you learn, you grow.' But I'm not my best judge. I always feel like my best work is still ahead of me.
Matt Dillon
#21. It took many years for me to see that hope doesn't take sadness away," Blue said sincerely. "But hope reminds you there's something good in spite of the sadness. There's joy still ahead, still yours for the taking.
Natalie Lloyd
#22. There was a lot of great writing couples, but I try to do it all myself. And it was practically impossible, but I still managed to be ahead of my time.
Jackie DeShannon
#23. In the end he'll find out what's going on with me, since we still have the rest of our lives. Maybe not ahead of us, maybe just today, but we do have our lives, there's no doubt about that.
Ingeborg Bachmann
#24. Do you mind even a little that you are still addicted to people-pleasing, and are still putting everyone else's needs and laundry and career ahead of your creative, spiritual life? Giving all your life force away, to "help" and impress. Well, your help is not helpful, and falls short.
Anne Lamott
#25. Even though I'm not running anymore, we still have to try to find a cure for cancer. Other people should go ahead and try to do their own thing now.
Terry Fox
#26. She still didn't like the idea. But she wouldn't question me again. She placed the judgment of her humans ahead of her own, as a matter of courtesy and pride, even if she was always right and we were always wrong. Good dogs are like that.
Catherine Ryan Hyde
#27. Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of it, looking ahead into it. There would be months of beautifully long, empty days, and each other to play with, and the books from the library.
Edward Eager
#28. Then there is a still higher type of courage - the courage to brave pain, to live with it, to never let others know of it and to still find joy in life; to wake up in the morning with an enthusiasm for the day ahead.
Howard Cosell
#29. Sweet sixteen," Hugh said, kissing her affectionately. "Happy birthday, little bear. Your future's all ahead of you." Ursula still harbored the feeling that some of her future was also behind her but she had learned not to voice such things.
Kate Atkinson
#30. If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them.
People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.
Kanye West
#31. People who were dying: their minds always raced past whatever was being said, and still the pain went faster, leapfrogging ahead.
Ann Beattie
#32. We have much work ahead, to stand still.
Said Musa
#33. I'm still number one and I just recently won a major tournament ahead of my toughest rivals so I think I had a few years ahead of me if I decided to stay.
Garry Kasparov
#34. I know that people will remember me as Miss Universe because it was my first great achievement, but I still have my whole career ahead of me.
Alicia Machado
#35. My entire life consisted of musings, calculations, practical works, and trials. Many questions remain unanswered; many works are incomplete or unpublished. The most important things still lie ahead.
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky
#36. You look boldly ahead; isn't it only that you don't see or divine anything terrible in the future; because life is still hidden from your young eyes.
Anton Chekhov
#37. But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten centuries ahead?
Yevgeny Zamyatin
#38. If you have a 50 percent match and you get in trouble financially, you can either withdraw money as a loan, or withdraw the 50 percent match. If you take it out, you have to pay taxes on it, but you still come out ahead.
Suze Orman
#39. Still, most people don't have much money. So finding ways to come out a couple of thousand dollars ahead every year still matters.
Andrew Tobias
#40. I'm so sorry because it's still not easy. You have a long, hard, terrible road ahead. There are lots of ways to travel it, but they all suck and they all involve letting go.
Laurie Frankel
#41. I'd like to prove to women my age that there can still be good years ahead of us.
Kirstie Alley
#42. I still feel like my best surfing is ahead of me.
Kelly Slater
#43. Artistically I am still a child with a whole life ahead of me to discover and create. I want something, but I won't know what it is until I succeed in doing it.
Alberto Giacometti
#44. Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.
Michelle Bachelet
#45. When you're thirty you're old enough to know better,but still young enough to go ahead and do it.
Brigitte Bardot
#46. There is nothing like feeling truly "awake" and aware of my life and what it means to me. So I look ahead and think, "There is still so much to be done, and I will continue to make the most of it.
Elizabeth Berrien
#47. I can tell you, from a fund of experience, that one can be taken down from the rack, closer to death than to life - and then still have the most exquisite joys ahead of one.
Gerald Clarke
#48. She sits quite still, her possessions gathered into her hand for dismounting. She is looking ahead, to where the road curves on and away, crossslanted with shadows.
William Faulkner
#49. The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.
Igor Sikorsky
#50. It was so fun. Being ahead and still being relaxed, we got to chill out.
Brittany MacLean
#51. Uh, you all haven't asked this, but I will go ahead and tell you this. Do I think I'm the one that killed this kid? Yes ... Uh, if it wasn't this kid I killed, then there's a murder out there that, that we still ain't undug yet.
Tommy Lynn Sells
#52. They're still working on the script - they've got to get that nailed down and they want the first movie to come out obviously, not get too ahead of themselves. But yeah, it's looking good. I love the second book a lot as well, so kind of diving into that is awesome.
Josh Hutcherson
#53. Not sure what to do next, I stepped back outside, spotting my sister up ahead, still flirting with Drael. Would I be expected to behave thus when I was betrothed? I hoped not; the thought made me shudder.
Cayla Kluver
#54. Come on, man. You can't always be looking over your shoulder, you know? At the good stuff or the bad stuff. You got to look ahead, or else you miss the good stuff that's still coming.
Kristopher Reisz
#55. That's still looking a long way ahead. For the present, you're the only person who should attempt communication. Agreed, Captain?
Arthur C. Clarke
#56. Historical amnesia is a dangerous phenomenon not only because it undermines moral and intellectual integrity but also because it lays the groundwork for crimes that still lie ahead.
Noam Chomsky
#57. I usually go in ahead of time, like at a rehearsal, or a meeting, and tell them, "It may appear that I'm going to go haywire, but I'm not." I always map out what I'm going to do. Still, a lot of it is improvised.
Paul Reubens
#58. For the sake of argument, let's say all your choices and all your effort are destined to be a waste. You're still very much yourself and nobody else. And you're forging ahead, as yourself. So relax.
Haruki Murakami
#59. Whenever I feel lonely I remembered those days. My mother walking ahead of me, barefoot, her hair blowing in the wind, across her mouth, a pair of her soft shoes in her hand, yet she still looked beautiful and elegant to me. Her glasses perched on the end of her nose.
Abigail George
#60. I gave it everything in the last 20 minutes. I knew that I still had the energy, that I was ahead of the mark. I felt euphoric - it was the last 20 minutes of my sporting career.
Jens Voigt
#61. Much of India that we dream of still lies ahead of us: housing, power, water and sanitation for all; bank accounts and insurance for every citizen; connected and prosperous villages; and, smart and sustainable cities.
Narendra Modi
#62. He was staring straight ahead, still breathing hard.
"I have something I want to give you."
"I gathered that."
At that he jerked his gaze back to hers and almost reluctantly grinned.
"Not that.
Cassandra Clare
#63. There are still many more days of failure ahead, whole seasons of failure, things will go terribly wrong, you will have huge disappointments , but you have to prepare for that, you have to expect it and be resolute and follow your own path.
Anton Chekhov
#64. You go ahead, stand still, or go backwards in life.
Your objective should be to go ahead.
Napoleon Hill
#65. The chemistry was still there. To me, that was the biggest thing: Would the chemistry be there? Can we really go ahead and do this? And it was obvious within the first moment of plugging in the instruments that the magic was still there. It was a fantastic feeling.
Christine McVie
#66. Kneeling before him, Regin murmured, "Don't let that Fegley worm get to you." Still staring ahead, the kid slowed his banging. "There's a good ... male of indeterminate species.
Kresley Cole
#67. We have a choice. We can count the years we have lost, or we can count the years we still have ahead of us." She
Karen White
#68. ...Time had seemed infinite when she still had many years and decades ahead of her. A book waiting to be written: as a girl, that was how she had seen her future life. Now she was sixty, and the pages were blank. Infinity had passed like one long continuous day.
Nina George
#69. I was still very hopeful that much work lay ahead of me. Perhaps because much of what I had worked on or thought about had not yet been put into writing, I felt I still had things in reserve. Given this optimistic nature, I feel this way even now when I am past sixty.
Stanislaw Ulam
#70. When I'm wasted, I can almost forget who I am," he said, his smile fading slightly. "I know I'm still there, but only barely. It's a good place to be." He tipped back the thermos, eyes on the dark sea straight ahead
Becca Fitzpatrick
#71. When people look for the road in the clouds
The cloud road disappears
The mountains are tall and steep
The streams are wide and still
Green mountains ahead and behind
White clouds to east and west
If you want to find the cloud road
Seek it within
Hanshan
#72. I am hoping that, with the added wisdom of old age, I can still look ahead for an improvement in tone, line, colour and composition.
E. J. Hughes
#73. I briefly consider keying her precious BMW, but quite frankly, I don't have the energy to go all Carrie Underwood on her ass. I still have over an hour drive ahead of me.
-Jackson 'Blame It on the Pain
Ashley Jade
#74. If your diet is dialed in, you can train in a pretty subpar manner and still get passable results. On the other hand, if your training is fantastic but your diet is crap, you have a harder road ahead of you.
John Romaniello
#75. Even if it meant that she had failed, she was glad. And if what she'd wanted had been impossible from the start, still there was a certain lonely comfort in the fact that she'd known it was impossible and had gone ahead and done it anyway.
Donna Tartt
#76. Nobody is weirder than your own family, and I think teenagers feel that particularly acutely; the fact that you can walk five steps ahead of your parents and still be in the same family, but refuse to acknowledge it.
Simon Templeman
#77. If you're ridin' ahead of the herd, take a look back every now and then to make sure it's still there
Will Rogers
#78. In life there are no short cuts; process is still the best way to get ahead.
Bidemi Mark-Mordi
#80. Maybe there's only a dark road up ahead. But you still have to believe and keep going. Believe that the stars will light your path, even a little bit.
KAORI
#81. What did you learn in school that you still use today? Go ahead teachers, tell me. What? Fear, conformity, don't question authority ...
Doug Stanhope
#82. My voice is the only material thing in which I can still reveal myself. Go ahead and cut off the hand or the testicles of a voice. Try to find the head of a voice, the orifice through which it passes, or even the breasts to which you can attach the clips of your electrodes. Nothing. Resonant tooth.
Abdellatif Laabi
#83. No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.
Ziad K. Abdelnour
#84. I know plenty of Hollywood kids who still struggle with being whole. Their lives are never fully their own - always in the grip of a parent who put celebrity ahead of them.
Shawn Amos
#85. Certainly, I think Canada is many years ahead of the curve and still the great global pioneer.
Pico Iyer
#86. We've still got a long haul ahead of is and I don't want to damn her rift away with my first, second, and third impressions, as my character analyses are usually for shit.
Megan McCafferty
#87. By my father's own handwritten definition: "Faith is the confident assurance that something we want is going to happen. It is the certainty that what we hope for is waiting for us even though we still cannot see it ahead of us.
Amy Tan
#88. Even if the crises that are looming up are overcome and a new run of prosperity lies ahead, deeper problems will still remain. Modern capitalism has no purpose except to keep the show going.
Joan Robinson
#89. The greatest enemy of progress is your last success, you could become so proud of what you've already accomplished that you stop moving ahead to what you can still accomplish
Myles Munroe
#90. I've been around a long time, and when I was at the top of the hill, I was very ahead of my time! Evidence of that is that my music is still current today - you know, rappers sample it all the time. So, rather than compromise my artistic integrity, I concentrated on movies.
Isaac Hayes
#91. I am asked to submit a 2-3 page synopsis to my publisher ahead of time, so by the time I begin writing, I have a fair idea of where the story will begin, the main conflicts, and the basic ending point. But that still leaves plenty of room for changes and discovery along the way.
Julie Klassen
#92. The past is gone and what is ahead is still to be felt.
Nonna Bannister
#93. Silver Machine still sounds really modern with all the white noise. It's a bit punky in a way. They were ahead of their time.
Jarvis Cocker
#94. I'm still finding my legs, performance-wise, being up there by myself. I think I have a bit of proving myself ahead of me.
Natalie Maines
#95. There's a thing I think children realise at a certain age, which is that if their parents say, 'Don't do it', and they go ahead and do it, they're still not going to die. And I think that's what it is: that no matter what you do, you're not going to die.
Rupert Graves
#96. If we [Microsoft Corporation] weren't still hiring great people and pushing ahead at full speed, it would be easy to fall behind and become a mediocre company. Fear should guide you, but it should be latent. I have some latent fear. I consider failure on a regular basis.
Bill Gates
#97. Winning and losing are both very temporary things. Having done one or the other, you move ahead. Gloating over a victory or sulking over a loss is a good way to stand still.
Chuck Knox
#98. Shakespeare was so ahead of his time that people still don't talk that way.
Rod Longuestte
#99. People who say that life is not worthwhile are really saying that they themselves have no personal goals which are worthwhile. Get yourself a goal worth working for. Better still, get yourself a project. Always have something ahead of you to look forward to ... to work for and hope for.
Maxwell Maltz
#100. Life is change. If you aren't growing and evolving, you're standing still, and the rest of the world is surging ahead.
Louise Penny
