Inspiring Quotes to Keep Moving Forward: A Collection of Wisdom

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

- Naomi Osaka

"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the human spirit. We are all the same in this notion: The potential for greatness lives within each of us."

- Wilma Rudolph

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

- Walt Disney

"All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination."

- Earl Nightingale

"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

"What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work."

- Stephen King

"It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success."

- Martin Seligman

"keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths"

- Walt Disney

"The only thing standing between you and outrageous success is continuous progress."

- Dan Waldschmidt

"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

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

- Sam Levenson

"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 requires a better type of mind to seek out and to support or to create the new than to follow the worn paths of accepted success."

- John D. Rockefeller, Sr

"I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near."

- Margaret Thatcher

"Consistent hard work leads to success. Greatness will come."

- Dwayne Johnson

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

- Thomas A. Edison

"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go."

- William Feather

"To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try."

- Rosa Parks

"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."

- Thomas Edison

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

- Paulo Coelho

"You just can’t beat the person who never gives up."

- Babe Ruth

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Life is about accepting the challenges along the way, choosing to keep moving forward, and savoring the journey."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"There were some tough days, there were some good days, but you have to just keep going, keep dreaming, and keep believing."

- Bukayo Saka

"I am not the richest, smartest, or most talented person in the world, but I succeed because I keep going and going and going."

- Sylvester Stallone

"Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Dalai Lama

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

- Al Bernstein

"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

"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

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"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

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Just keep moving forward."

- Oksana Masters

"The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees opportunity in every difficulty."

- Winston Churchill

"Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future."

- Robin Sharma

"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

"To succeed in life, you have to keep moving no matter how tough and hard the situation is."

- Onipede Ayomide

"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

"Getting started is the easy part. The difficult part is the struggle to keep going when you are not motivated. Get back up because it takes commitment, discipline, and sacrifice to get to where you are trying to go."

- Germany Kent

"Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you had once been. When things are not going your way, you will start doubting yourself. Stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward – your breakthrough may be just around the corner."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"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

"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

"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

"Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Life is a journey, not a destination."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Happiness is a direction, not a place."

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Dalai Lama

"A ship is always safe at shore. But that is not what it is built for."

- Albert Einstein

"The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."

- Thomas Paine

"The greater the difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests."

- Epictetus

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

- Albert Camus

"You learn more from losing than winning. You learn how to keep going."

- Morgan Wootten

"Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success."

- Dale Carnegie

"If you really look closely, most overnight successes took a long time."

- Steve Jobs

"If you don't design your own life plan, chances are you'll fall into someone else's plan. And guess what they have planned for you? Not much."

- Jim Rohn

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."

- Albert Einstein

"Either you run the day or the day runs you."

- Jim Rohn

"The best time to plant a tree is 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

- Chinese proverb

"If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Nature has given us all the pieces required to achieve exceptional wellness and health, but has left it to us to put these pieces together."

- Diane McLaren

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

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Successful people are the ones who are breaking the rules."

- Seth Godin

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

- Gordon B. Hinkley

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

- Conrad Hall

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

- Yoda

"If I feel like things are getting into a routine, I want them to be different. I need to keep improving and keep moving forward."

- Joe Bonamassa

"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

"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

"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

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

- Sam Levenson

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

- Ayn Rand

"Never give up hope. All things are working for your good. One day, you'll look back on everything you've been through and thank God for it."

- Germany Kent

"If you’re feeling doubtful or discouraged about your progress, remember that none of your efforts have gone to waste. Often, the things we want most in life will come when we least expect them, and in ways that might surprise us."

- Brittany Burgunder

"Today is a new day. Thus, I must stay positive and let go of yesterday and start today with positive belief and focus so that I will achieve something big today and keep working for my future purpose."

- Onipede Ayomide

"The most important thing any broken individual can do is keep their chin up and keep moving forward."

- Matt Hardy

"With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward."

- Rivers Cuomo

"I think it's important to keep moving forward so that the soul can grow."

- Gauri Khan

"I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn."

- Rita Moreno

"If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it."

- Dana Brunetti

"For the most part, if you're willing to work hard enough, you can recover from most injuries. Having that mentality really helps you keep moving forward."

- Mike Schultz

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Jung

"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

- James Joyce

"Move forward with purpose"

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

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

- Stella Maeve

"If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward"

- John Wooden

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

- Andy Warhol

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- Conrad Hall

"Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward."

- Joseph Benavidez

"Life doesn't always end up where you want it to go; you have to be an optimist and keep moving forward."

- Tinsley Mortimer

"There's no time for regrets. You've just got to keep moving forward."

- Mike McCready

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

- Kurt Vonnegut

"We will accept any help we can as we attempt to keep moving forward to become a better team."

- Adama Traore

"I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience."

- Dianne Reeves

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

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"I wanna look forward; I wanna keep moving forward."

- Vinnie Paul

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferris

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

- Brendon Burchard

"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

"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

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

- Tim Ferriss

"Don't question the tests of life. Just pass them with a fire in your soul."

- Hiral Nagda

"You’ll miss your next opportunity if you’re too focused on your last mistake."

- Brittany Burgunder

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

- Martin Luther King

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

- Stephen Covey

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

- Criss Jami

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

- Edward de Bono

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

- Rick Riordan

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

- David Allen

"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

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

- Bo Bennett

"Life will not go the way we want and that's the best thing because life knows the way, we dont."

- Hiral Nagda

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

- Steven Hawking

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

- Peter Drucker

"I've met enough horror to close myself off, and be justified, yet I move through this world with both hands open, ready to give and receive, refusing bitterness, rebuking a deadening, allowing this flame to rise from my unshakeable palm."

- Joy Donnell

"Don't run away from discomfort. Stay with it, pass through it and it will transcend you to next level."

- Hiral Nagda

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

- Salvador Dalí

"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

"Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation."

- Brian Tracy

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

"You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."

"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"

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

"Behind every successful woman is herself."

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

"The hardest part about moving forward is not looking back"

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

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

"Life is about moving on, accepting changes and looking forward to what makes you stronger and more complete"

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