Moving Quotes

When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.

I think that the mere fact that I'm doing it ought to inspire someone. In junior high school the counselor suggested that I focus on wood shop and metal shop.

Don't move the way fear makes you move. Move the way love makes you move. Move the way joy makes you move.

As long as my opponent has not yet castled, on each move I seek a pretext for an offensive. Even when I realize that the king is not in danger.

I believe absolutely in my own free will and my own power to accomplish - and that is the belief that moves mountains.

Men can be attracted but not forced to the faith. You may drive people to baptism, (but) you won't move them one step further in religion.

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?

If you do not create your destiny, you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.

Table your mistakes, learn from them, then move on.

I just feel that you reach a point when its time to move on.

Hitting your head against a wall is not the fastest way to move it.

The heart wants to go on; that is its dharma. For unless it moves, it dies.

Thou seest how sloth wastes the sluggish body, as water is corrupted unless it moves.

Often-times it's madness, not genius that moves the world forward. Who else but the mad would reach so far, stretching for the impossible and, in so doing, prove the impossible possible!

Sometimes it takes looking at the past to really be able to move forward and learn from it.

Every choice in life either moves you forward or keeps you stuck.

The greatest force of personal liberation is the decision to widen our circle of compassion, moving from focus on self to focus on service.

I had the feeling that some horrible image was just beyond the field of vision, moving, as I turned my head, so that I never quite saw it.

This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.

The meaning of life is creative love. Not love as an inner feeling, as a private sentimental emotion, but love as a dynamic power moving out in the world and doing something original.

I see no reason why the artistic world can't absolutely merge with Madison Avenue. Pop art is a move in that direction. Why can't we have advertisements with beautiful words and beautiful images?

What do you want from me? Fine writing? Or do you want to see the sales curve stop moving down and start moving up?

Notes, usually to be musical, have to move in or out. They don't sound like clarinets!

So long as one's just dreaming about what to do, one can soar like an eagle and move mountains, it seems, but as soon as one starts doing it one gets worn out and tired.

I do not admire young actresses whose foreheads cannot move.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Sometimes I see something so moving I know I’m not supposed to linger. See it and leave. If you stay too long, you wear out the wordless shock. Love it and trust it and leave.

Anthemic rock music is inherently fascist - anything intended to move huge masses of people is politically offensive to me.

A lifetime contract for a coach means if you're ahead in the third quarter and moving the ball, they can't fire you.

I had the urge to examine my life in another culture and move beyond what I knew.

Lastly, the ashes left behind, May daily show to move the mind, That to ashes and dust return we must: Then think, and drink tobacco.

In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.

Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble.

Old carts can be repainted but they still keep moving in the same old ruts

No more Botox for me. Betty White's bowels move more than my face.

If you are going to do anything, you must expect criticism. But it's better to be a doer than a critic. The doer moves; the critic stands still, and is passed by.

A frozen river is not a dry one, it's just a still river on the surface but is still moving, and so am my winter writing.

The way people move is their autobiography in motion.

Here was the greatest and most moving chapter in American history, a blending of meanness and greatness, an ending and a beginning. It came out of what men were, but it did not go as men had planned.

You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.

Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not quite the same thing.

I want what we all want," said Carl. "To move certain parts of the interior of myself into the exterior world, to see if they can be embraced.

Basically, I think 21st century conservation is moving toward preserving ecosystems by dealing with the needs of people.

You have to have the fighting spirit. You have to force moves and take chances

Music should be something that makes you gotta move, inside or outside.

Don’t indulge in any unnecessary, sophisticated moves

I'm still on the move, I'm getting better because I'm still studying. I still want to be a better horseman.

Every setback means you're one step closer to seeing the dream come to pass.

When you want to move somebody, you have to say to yourself: 'I'm in the emotional transportation business. I gotta move them, emotionally.