Forward Quotes - page 3

The tempest was terrible and separated me from my other vessels that night, putting every one of them in desperate straits, with nothing to look forward to but death. Each was certain the others had been destroyed. What man ever born, not excepting Job, who would not have died of despair, when in such weather seeking safety for my son, my brother, shipmates, and myself, we were forbidden access to the land and the harbors which I, by God's will and sweating blood, had won for Spain. (Christopher Columbus)
I find that a man is as old as his work. If his work keeps him from moving forward, he will look forward with the work. View quote
William Ernest Hocking
Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths. View quote
Walt Disney
Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories. View quote
Abraham Lincoln
I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. View quote
John F. Kennedy
From this day forward, the millions of our school children will daily proclaim in every city and town, every village and rural school house, the dedication of our nation and our people to the Almighty. View quote
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taking courage and looking forward from the standpoint of higher ideas born of the multiplication of the arts, they gave up huts and began to build houses with foundations, having brick or stone walls, and roofs of timber and tiles; next, observation and application led them from fluctuating and indefinite conceptions to definite rules of symmetry. Perceiving that nature had been lavish in the bestowal of timber and bountiful in stores of building material, they... embellished them with luxuries. View quote
Vitruvius
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey. View quote
Martha Beck
Because here is the truth: If you want to have a chance at meeting somebody with whom you are genuinely compatible, never put your best foot forward. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The only way forward, if we are going to improve the quality of the environment, is to get everybody involved. View quote
Richard Rogers
Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress. (Stephen Ambrose)
It's nice to have things to look forward to. View quote
Stephen Chbosky
It is one of the most beautiful characteristics of Theosophy that it gives back to people in a more rational form everything which was really useful and helpful to them in the religions which they have outgrown... in this teaching as to the immortality of the soul and the life after death, Theosophy...does not put forward these great truths merely on the authority of some sacred book of long ago; in speaking of these subjects it is not dealing with pious opinions, or metaphysical speculations, but with solid, definite facts, as real and as close to us as the air we breathe or the houses we live in - facts of which many among us have constant experience - facts among which lies the daily work of some of our students, as will presently be seen. View quote
Charles Webster Leadbeater
I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where you've been. View quote
Charles Williams
Sometimes the day begins with nothing to look forward to. View quote
Shaun Tan
I don't ever look back. I look forward. View quote
Steffi Graf
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there. View quote
Beverly Cleary
Stride forward with a firm, steady step knowing with a deep, certain inner knowing that you will reach every goal you set yourselves, that you will achieve every aim . View quote
Eileen Caddy
I leave to the militarists the difficult task of trying to explain to us how these wars have served to shape character or to promote the progress of civilization or to achieve the reign of justice on earth. So far, they have not come forward with the explanation. View quote
Elie Ducommun
Every time economic and technical development takes a step forward, forces emerge which attempt to create political forms for what, on the economic-technical plane, has already more or less become reality. View quote
Christian Lous Lange
Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. (Denis Waitley)
History has spurts and then is steady, and then maybe even backing up a step, and then forward again. View quote
Alan Bean
However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really. View quote
Ian Hamilton Finlay
If you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. View quote
Morrie Schwartz
The largest challenge that we face, from my perspective, is the ability to continue moving forward so the agency will have a single mission: that is, to provide decent, safe, and affordable housing. View quote
Alphonso Jackson