Moving Forward Quotes from great athletes provides inspiration when you need that extra nudge.
Motivation is one of the most important ingredients in helping you succeed. Whether you suffered a setback or haven’t been able to perform at the desired levels, you should learn how to power through.
It is not just athletes who can learn so much from the words of great players. People from all walks of life can find inspiration in these words. If you want to be great on the field or in your career, you will have to learn something from these great champions.
Quotes About Moving Forward
Around here, we don’t look backward for very long. We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney
I decided I can’t pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
Serena Williams
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
Never give up! Failure and rejection are only the first steps to succeeding.
Jim Valvano
Hold the vision, and trust the process.
Unknown
Do your best, one shot at a time, and then move on.
Nancy Lopez
Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.
Babe Ruth
Strength Sayings
Age is no barrier. It’s a limitation you put on your mind.
Jackie Joyner Kersee
It’s all about the journey, not the outcome.
Carl Lewis
The truth is, unless you let go unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.
Steve Maraboli
When I’d get tired and want to stop, I’d wonder what my next opponent was doing. I’d wonder if he was still working out. I tried to visualize him. When I could see him still working, I’d start pushing myself. When I could see him in the shower, I’d push myself harder.
Dan Gable
Sometimes life knocks you on your ass… get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems; it’s the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must, and just never give up.
Dean Karnazes
If you aren’t going all the way, why go at all?
Joe Nameth
I’ve never known anybody to achieve anything without overcoming adversity.
Lou Holtz
Advance and Achieve
Just keep going. Everybody gets better if they keep at it.
Ted Williams
Going in one more round when you don’t think you can – that’s what makes all the difference in your life.
Rocky Balboa
You’re never a loser until you quit trying.
Mike Ditka
To uncover your true potential, you must first find your own limits, and then you have to have the courage to blow past them.
Picabo Street
Do not let what you can not do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden
You are never really playing an opponent. You are playing yourself, your own highest standards, and when you reach your limits, that is real joy.
Arthur Ashe
It ain’t over till it’s over.
Yogi Berra
Push yourself again and again. Don’t give an inch until the final buzzer sounds.
Larry Bird
Each of us has a fire in our hearts for something. It’s our goal in life to find it and keep it lit.
Mary Lou Retton
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Push Ahead Sayings
I always looked ahead.
Chris Evert
I hated every minute of training, but I said, Don’t quit. Suffer now and live the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali – More Ali Quotations
Get it Done!
Unknown
What do you do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it.
Dean Smith
You can totally do this.
Unknown
A good coach will make his players see what they can be rather than what they are.
Ara Parseghian
I didn’t come this far to only come this far.
Unknown
I know what I have to do, and I’m going to do whatever it takes. If I do it, I’ll win, and it doesn’t matter what anyone else does.
Florence Griffith Joyner
I’ve missed more than 9,000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.
Michael Jordan
Moving Forward Sayings
Set your goals high, and don’t stop till you get there.
Bo Jackson – check out Bo Biking Bama
I am building a fire, and every day I train, I add more fuel. At just the right moment, I light the match.
Mia Hamm
A trophy carries dust. Memories last forever.
Mary Lou Retton
Give me Strength
Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.
Gail Devers
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way.
Satchel Paige
I think it’s the mark of a great player to be confident in tough situations.
John McEnroe
Strength does not come from winning. Your struggles develop your strengths. When you go through hardships and decide not to surrender, that is strength.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Strength shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.
Unknown
It’s not whether you get knocked down; it’s whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi
Strength doesn’t come from what you can do. It comes from overcoming the things you once thought you couldn’t.
Unknown
Moving Ahead Quotes From Notables
Life is like riding a bicycle; to keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
No matter how much time you’ve wasted in the past, you still have an entire tomorrow.
Denis Waitley
In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
Deepak Chopra
We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn’t always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.
Zoraida Córdova
The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.
Alyson Noel
You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
Conrad Hall
A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you and find something better in your future.
Jodi Picoult
If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.
Paulo Coelho
Keep Moving Forward
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
You have to trust in something – your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
There’s no time for regrets. You’ve just got to keep moving forward.
Mike McCready
It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
Sometimes God closes doors because it’s time to move forward. He knows you won’t move unless your circumstances force you. Trust the transition. God’s got you.
Unknown
Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed.
Wayne Dyer
Just keep moving forward, and don’t give a damn about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do for you.
Johnny Depp
You don’t have to see the whole staircase; just take the first step.
Martin Luther King, Jr
Pushing Forward
In a moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing to do, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.
Theodore Roosevelt
Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.
Shannon L. Alder
Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.
Gordon B. Hinkley
There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.
Unknown
Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.
Pablo Picasso
You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories but find yourself moving on.
Nicholas Sparks
Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to focus.
Alexander Graham Bell
Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.
Nicole Sobon
Even a rock moves on.
Anthony Liccione
Moving On
Life moves on, and so should we.
Spencer Johnson
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns or the sharp stones on life’s path.
Kahlil Gibran
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
Novalis
Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain the old pain.
Mary Manin Morrissey
When you’re running, you spend the whole time looking over your shoulder. To go forward, you gotta look forward.
Gretchen Anthony
We can’t afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into a sweat that can take us to what can be.
Denis Waitley
The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.
Edmond Mbiaka
I want to live my life moving forward with integrity and pride.
Dan Amboyer
You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors… What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you’d come to closed door number eight, and you’d think, ‘Great, I got another one out of the way’… Keep moving forward.
Joel Osteen
Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
Leo Buscaglia
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
Maxwell Maltz
Letting Go
There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.
Jessica Hatchigan
Time flies. People change. You’re not always needed. There are times to move forward and places to let go.
Unknown
One of the most courageous decisions you’ll ever make is to finally let go of what is hurting your heart and soul.
Brigitte Nicole
Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin D.Roosevelt
You can’t go backwards. You’re always moving forward. It’s the wonderful part about life. And that’s terrific.
Harvey Fierstein
Whatever happens, I’ll just keep moving forward. Like an avalanche.
Michelle Phan
The best career advice I’ve gotten is to stay focused and to keep moving forward.
Tyga
The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that’s moving forward.
Dan Quinn
Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die, and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
Bryant McGill
You’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.
Tori Amos
Take the changes in stride, and understand that you may have setbacks. Instead of focusing on that, make sure to keep moving forward.
Esther King
The most important thing any broken individual can do is keep their chin up and keep moving forward.
Matt Hardy
Start today by imagining the life you want in the future and taking one practice step towards it.
Denise Duffield Thomas
We hope these quotes give you the strength to power through when you face your next challenge.
By Mike O’Halloran
Mike is an author and founder of Sports Feel Good Stories.
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