Moving On quotes
302 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"If you feel safe in the area you’re working in, you’re not working in the right area. Always go a little further into the water than you feel you’re capable of being in. Go a little bit out of your depth. And when you don’t feel that your feet are quite touching the bottom, you’re just about in the right place to do something exciting."
"Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength."
"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it."
"If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were."
"When I look back on my past and think how much time I wasted on nothing, how much time has been lost in futilities, errors, laziness, incapacity to live; how little I appreciated it, how many times I sinned against my heart and soul-then my heart bleeds. Life is a gift, life is happiness, every minute can be an eternity of happiness."
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"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."
"Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
"I never see what has been done; I only see what remains to be done."
"Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat."
"You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."
"Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
"You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on."
"You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope."
"Nothing will work unless you do."
"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."
"No one will hit you harder than life itself. It doesn't matter how hard you hit back. It's about how much you can take, and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward. That's how you win."
"Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer."
"Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven."
"On your journey to your dream, be ready to face oasis and deserts. In both cases, don't stop"
"When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight."
"A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn."
"If you fell down yesterday, stand up today."
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
