Top 565 Forward Quotes

Conservation destroys the present. If we are only busy preserving the past, we are not living in the present and unable to look forward. I am against conservation. We should let young people move forward, whether we agree with them or not. We should let new things happen.
Peter Eisenman
The 1992 crisis proved that the existing system was unstable. Not moving forward to the euro would have set up Europe for even more disruptive crises.
Barry Eichengreen
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.
John F. Kennedy
To me, I will be a stronger person if I’m moving forward, doing the work I want, and continue to drive: force the purpose that I want to create versus doing what other people think I should be doing, which is never a way to live.
Payal Kadakia
I have no desire to look back, I only want to look forward to the things that are still ahead of me.
Dionne Warwick
They spend their time looking forward to the past.
John Osborne
You know, I try not to look back, because looking forward is so much better than looking backward.
Jim Bakker
Rather than waiting for a crisis to erupt before intervening, the IMF should provide ‘forward guidance’ on how it will tackle potential disruptions in international financial markets.
Gita Gopinath
I think Daily Kos is a really great example of where it’s really worked in terms of putting the opinions of a larger group of people forward. And Kos has obviously had a huge impact on politics.
John Byrne
It takes strength to make your way through grief, to grab hold of life and let it pull you forward.
Patti Davis
We must strengthen everything that defines Denmark. I look forward to working with all of you here in Parliament. We must live up to the hopes we have generated: a safer, more just and greener Denmark.
Mette Frederiksen
I don’t have that much forward planning about what I want to do next, or in the future.
Heath Ledger
The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.
Oscar de la Renta
Looking back on my life, I wish I’d stepped forward and made a fool of myself more often when I was younger – because when you do, you find out you can do it.
William K. Sessions
During my time as a state legislator, I’ve pushed for significant investment in public school districts. In Congress, I would look forward to increasing federal public investment in education through initiatives like Race to the Top.
Hakeem Jeffries
Christopher believed that to overcome any adversity, no matter how challenging, you need to go forward each day with strength, determination and compassion.
Dana Reeve
I always look forward to the next project. That is one of the wonderful things about architecture – you always can hope for another project to design.
Cesar Pelli
I am looking forward to my next race. What comes, comes.
Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce
While working as a team, you push yourself forward and move outside the boundaries. It’s a great thing.
Martin Margiela
There’s an awful lot of future out there, and what you got to do, is you go to out and grab it, wrestle it to the ground, accept the challenges, and then decide. You’ve got the skills. You’ve got the knowledge. You’ve got the love, and you’re capable of moving forward and making a great life yourself.
Gene Kranz
If people are looking forward to my films, then I am happy, and I must be doing something right.
Abhishek Bachchan
One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph, Held we fall to rise, are baffled to fight better, sleep to wake.
Robert Browning
I’m looking forward to providing the men of Seattle with an evening where they can kick back, light up a cigar and enjoy a night to themselves. Women, we can’t technically keep you out, but please stay at home.
Tom Leykis
Because if you’ve found meaning in your life, you don’t want to go back. You want to go forward.
Morrie Schwartz
I am very much looking forward to new adventures – including, I hope, Broadway – sooner rather than later.
Kenneth Branagh
It is extremely unlikely that anyone coming out of school with a technical degree will go into one area and stay there. Today’s students have to look forward to the excitement of probably having three or four careers.
Gordon Moore
I’m a businessman who puts up his own money, so I don’t have time to hear about emotion. I gotta get right to the point. I’m going to tell you the truth, I’m going to address the elephant in the room, and we’ll all move forward.
Damon Dash
Everything has to keep moving forward in ‘Endeavour.’ Otherwise, it will stagnate.
Shaun Evans
I don’t harp on the negative because if you do, then there’s no progression. There’s no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.
Taraji P. Henson
One of the characteristics of North American culture is

One of the characteristics of North American culture is that you can always start again. You can always move forward, cross a border of a state or a city or a county, and move West, most of the time West. You leave behind guilt, past traditions, memories.
Isabel Allende
Looking forward, we see that it is the youth of today who hold the key to tomorrow. And we can help unlock it.
Tamzin Merchant
The team is very enthusiastic – everyone is trying hard to do their best, and everyone is putting a lot of effort in to moving forward and getting the right results and it’s a very good, close-knit team.
David Leslie
I suppose the only thing at 50 you can really start to look forward to is just total irresponsibility. As you get older, you can just sit in a chair, wear anything you want, you know you can walk down; old people dress cool. You know they wear sweatpants. The elderly have it down.
Johnny Depp
The best career advice I’ve gotten is to stay focused, keep moving forward.
Tyga
As a survivor of the 20th-century Race Wars, my back remains unbent, and I move forward for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness for all who were created equal in God’s eyes.
Alveda King
I was 17 when I was forced into marriage. I had no hand in it, and I didn’t even enjoy being with the man. Also, I wanted to study, but no one listened to me. I wanted to move forward in life, it wasn’t a happy situation. Because of some family problems, I had to stick around.
Qandeel Baloch
Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters.
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.
Fred Armisen
I look forward to making tangible and inspirational contributions to the Houston Technology Center’s initiatives. HTC is an engine behind Houston’s and Texas’ continued growth.
Walter O’Brien
I’m really looking forward to joining ‘Mike & Mike.’ It will be a tremendous challenge.
Molly Qerim
‘Dust Devil,’ I’ve never really seen with an American audience, so I’m looking forward to that experience.
Richard Stanley
It is said that many children who live in the central provinces, away from the ocean, have a great longing to see it. I who had never been away from the monotonous country surrounding us looked forward eagerly to seeing the mountains.
Pierre Loti
I’m looking forward to coming back, back to Earth, the landing, the views.
Duane G. Carey
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, but more blood has been shed in His name than any other figure in history. You show me one step forward in the name of religion, and I’ll show you a hundred retrogressions.
Frank Sinatra
Sexual harassment can really affect you for a long time, and I want more women to come forward.
Gretchen Carlson
Time’s fatal wings do ever forward fly; to every day we live, a day we die.
Thomas Campion
I never said I wanted a ‘happy’ life but an interesting one. From separation and loss, I have learned a lot. I have become strong and resilient, as is the case of almost every human being exposed to life and to the world. We don’t even know how strong we are until we are forced to bring that hidden strength forward.
Isabel Allende
I think the personal stories that I tell in my life, I think, sort of do add up to say that you can fail and fail and fail again and continue to move forward.
H. Jon Benjamin
Some people say I’m unique, that there aren’t other people with schizophrenia like me. Well, there are people like me out there, but the stigma is so great that they don’t come forward.
Elyn Saks
You’ve got to always go back in time if you want to move forward.
Snoop Dogg
To me, you have to pay it forward.
Spencer Paysinger
I’ve crossed paths with lions. I keep going forward and leave it in God’s hands.
Marcos Maidana
The best quality about Kobe Bryant? You want me to be honest? I don’t know. I’ll tell you why. I open my arms to everybody. But he never stepped forward for the embrace. So I never really got to know him. I don’t know anything about him, and it’s kinda sad.
Shaquille O’Neal
Greatness will come by looking forward – untethered from the politics of the past and anchored by our shared values – and by changing our nation’s future.
Pete Buttigieg
As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.
Robin Hayes
They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward.
Thomas A. Edison
I’m looking forward to becoming a marvelous – excuse the word marvelous – character actress. like Marie Dressler, like Will Rogers.
Marilyn Monroe
A few good words don’t just make your day but they also give the sense of belonging and confidence to take the next big step forward.
Ravi Shastri