82 Best Moving Forward Quotes to Inspire You in 2025

I am always moving forward.”

Debbie Allen

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

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

If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.”

John Wooden

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

Your past does not equal your future.”


Anthony Robbins

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 whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.”


Dana Brunetti

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 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

We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”


Joseph Campbell

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.”


Lao Tzu

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”

Jan Glidewell

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”

Paulo Coelho

If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”

Flavia Weedn

“Don’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.”
Mark Victor Hansen

Life moves on and so should we.”

Spencer Johnson

I’m a fast learner, and I believe in change, and I believe in growing, and I believe in moving forward and not staying in the same place.”

Linda Perry

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

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

Rehashing the past wouldn’t change anything. Time to move forward.”

Zena Wynn

Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”

Mandy Hale

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?”

Leo Buscaglia

Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

Tony Schwartz

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”

C. S. Lewis

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.”

Albert Ellis

To dare is to lose one’s footing momentarily. To not dare is to lose oneself.”

Soren Kierkegaard

The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.”

Faraaz Kazi

You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.”

Tina Fey

No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.”

Jack Kornfield

Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”

Hermann Hesse

Change has to come for life to struggle forward.”

Helen Hollick

You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

Mary Pickford

It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

You can’t expect to move forward if your emergency break is on.”
Angela Cecilia

The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”

Socrates

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

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.”

N. R. Walker

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

It’s not a matter of letting go – you would if you could. Instead of “Let it go” we should probably say “Let it be”.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.”

Edmond Mbiaka

Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It’s because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing.”

Anthony Robbins

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work in hand. The sun’s rays do not burn until brought to a focus.“

Alexander Graham Bell

Even if our life circumstances take a while to reflect our inner decisions, once decisions are made, everything in our life will move in the direction of aligning with that.”

Donna Goddard

Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know.”


Pema Chödrön

Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”

Carrie Underwood

Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in.”

Napoleon Bonaparte

Even a rock moves on.”

Anthony Liccione

Follow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.”

Peter Drucker

From the end spring new beginnings.”

Pliny the Elder

Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.”

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.”

Rumi

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

I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward.”

Fridtjof Nansen

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

Albert Einstein

You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. 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

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”

Seneca

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months overanalyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.”

Tupac Shakur

Moving backward meant more suffering, and staying stuck was just as bad. That left moving forward. There had to be an answer somewhere.”

Susan Mallery

It is never too late to be what you might have been.”

George Eliot

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”

Jim Rohn

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

Tinsley Mortimer

As long as you’re moving forward whether it be one step or ten feet man, you got to keep going.”

Josh Barnett

I am grateful for all the moments that I have, and I’m moving forward one step at a time to the future.”
Park Bo-gum

I’ve always been taught that life is a series of chapters, and it’s all about moving forward and not carrying around baggage.”
Alesha Dixon

You can tell when something’s not moving forward anymore. When the doubts you have about it don’t go away.”
Jeffrey Eugenides

Everything for me is either a learn or a win. I just keep moving forward, and that’s about it, honestly.”
Pat McAfee

You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope it resonates with people. And if it doesn’t, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.”
Octavia Spencer