Inspiring Quotes to Keep You Moving Forward

"Believe in yourself and all that you are, know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

- Christian D. Larson

"Some people want it to happen, some people wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all."

- Dale Carnegie

"What's done is done. What's gone is gone. One of life's lessons is always moving on. It’s okay to look back to see how far you’ve come but keep moving forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Hope begins in the dark. The stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up."

- Anne Lamott

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"You can’t use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."

- Maya Angelou

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart."

- Steve Jobs

"I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that’s how you grow. When there’s that moment of, ‘Wow, I’m not really sure I can do this,’ and you push through those moments, that’s when you have a breakthrough."

- Marissa Mayer

"In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing. The next best thing is the wrong thing. The worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined!"

- Thoreau

"I never dreamed about success. I worked for it."

- Estée Lauder

"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old. They grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."

- Gabriel García Márquez

"Our greatest weakness lies in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time."

- Thomas A. Edison

"You just gotta keep going and fighting for everything, and one day you’ll get to where you want."

- Naomi Osaka

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught me that if you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it, and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be."

- Roald Dahl

"Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what."

- Harper Lee

"Strength and growth come only through continuous effort and struggle."

- Napoleon Hill

"When you get into a tight place, and everything goes against you till it seems as if you couldn't hold on a minute longer, never give up then, for that's just the place and time that the tide'll turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Don’t think about making art. Just get it done. Let everyone else decide if it’s good or bad, whether they love it or hate it. While they are deciding, make even more art."

- Andy Warhol

"I am deliberate and afraid of nothing."

- Audre Lorde

"Now tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?"

- Mary Oliver

"Find out who you are and do it on purpose."

- Dolly Parton

"The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there."

- Vince Lombardi

"What would you do if you weren’t afraid?"

- Sheryl Sandberg

"Life is short. Don’t be lazy."

- Sophia Amoruso

"Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking"

- Albert Einstein

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

- Barbara Kingsolver

"Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic."

- Laini Taylor

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!"

- Tim Ferriss

"If you really want to eat, keep climbing. The fruits are on the top of the tree. Stretch your hands and keep stretching them. Success is on the top, keep going."

- Israelmore Ayivor

"My attitude has always been, if you fall flat on your face, at least you’re moving forward. All you have to do is get back up and try again."

- Richard Branson

"You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way."

- Elizabeth Taylor

"Keep going and keep growing. Never allow those who do not know where you are going to stop you from going where you should be going."

- Gift Gugu Mona

"Keep your head up. Move forward. Keep going."

- Alex Trebek

"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."

- Morgan Freeman

"Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"Press forward. Do not stop, do not linger in your journey, but strive for the mark set before you."

- George Whitefield

"What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going."

- Patrick Swayze

"If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I'm going to get there."

- Rachel Joyce

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"Instead of letting the hard times get me down, I've learned to keep going to look for the hidden good."

- Paul J. Meyer

"So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong, and you'll finally see the truth, that a hero lies in you."

- Mariah Carey

"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward"

- Conrad Hall

"Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation."

- Brian Tracy

"We've just got to keep going. More. More work, more action, more results."

- Gina Raimondo

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

"The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out."

- Gordon B. Hinchley

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself"

- Andy Warhol

"Never surrender until the challenge turns you into a champion."

- Hiral Nagda

"Do today what others won’t so tomorrow you can do what others can’t."

- Jerry Rice

"We all have a list of things that we failed at. This list is not kept in our mind to remind us of the failure, but it's there so we remember that we cannot let that be the thing we are known for. We must try again - this time, we will not fail."

- C Miller

"Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow."

- Mary Anne Radmacher

"The road of growth, enlargement and glory is outrageously difficult, but avoiding it is like avoiding your magnificent destiny."

- Hiral Nagda

"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."

- Stephen R. Covey

"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way."

- Edward de Bono

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'"

- Mister Rogers

"You are likely to fall when you stop paddling your bicycle. Such is life. As long as you don’t give up, you will never end up failing!"

- Israelmore Ayivor

"You've just got to keep going through the tough times and try your best every time you play."

- Tammy Abraham

"If you're reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though."

- Germany Kent

"Things aren't always easy, but you just have to keep going and don't let the small stuff bog you down."

- Stella Maeve

"Move forward with purpose"

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

"Even small positive shifts in thinking, create huge results if you are consistent in your efforts."

- Nanette Mathews

"Never settle unless there’s something worth settling for."

- Adrian Hayward

"Fight until the last moment because you never know what luck will fall your way."

- T.A. White

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"When you walk in the fire, you start becoming fireproof."

- Hiral Nagda

"I don't want to look back. I want to keep going forward, I still have something to say to people."

- Joe Strummer

"We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives."

- Maya Angelou

"Create with the heart; build with the mind."

- Criss Jami

"Doors will open, but you have to be looking forward to see them and be thinking kindly of yourself in order to trust walking through them."

- Brittany Burgunder

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferriss

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."

- Langston Hughes

"Life has got all those twists and turns. You’ve got to hold on tight and off you go."

- Nicole Kidman

"Amplifying what is great within you will accelerate your life faster than fixing what you think ‘limits’ you."

- Brendon Burchard

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

"Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it"

- Salvador Dali

"I don't know what lies ahead, but I want to keep going forever..."

- Fuyumi Soryo

"Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow."

- Tim O'Brien

"We love being mentally strong, but we hate situations that allow us to put our mental strength to good use."

- Mokokoma Mokhonoana

"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else"

- Stephen Hawking

"Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time."

- Vivek Naik

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"There’s always a better life for everyone."

- Jordan Hoechlin

"If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."

- David Allen

"What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent."

- Susan Cain

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."

- Bo Bennett

"You can’t turn back the clock. But you can wind it up again."

- Bonnie Prudden

"A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone."

- Rick Riordan

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

"Stop focusing on what happened and start focusing on what’s going to move you forward"

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today"

"Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome."

"When you bring peace to your past, you can move forward to your future"

"Where you moving? I said, onto better things"

"You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward. Just take the next step."