A Quote by Barbara Kingsolver

...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward. — © Barbara Kingsolver
...our best task is to move forward without insisting others slide backward.
The best I can say is that you move forward in your life. After every step you take, you can't go backward.
No one ever won a chess game by betting on each move. Sometimes you have to move backward to get a step forward.
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
Russia on its path has oftentimes discussed and overdiscussed what had happened earlier, instead of moving forward. The result is always the same: It is very difficult to move forward when you're looking backward.
While our bodies move ever forward on the time line, our minds continuously trace backward, seeking shape and meaning as deftly as any arrow seeking its mark
I always thought the purpose of time was to move forward, not backward.
If you are walking backward, away from something you think is a mistake, you may be right in supposing it is a mistake, but for you to be walking backward is never right. You know what happens to people who walk backward.... We are meant to walk forward, not backward, and reaction is always a matter of walking backward.
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move.
There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!
Life may not always be a bed of roses. All of us are aware of this fact. There are numerous times in life when we have to face disappointments. These quotes and sayings surely do inspire and help us to look forward and enjoy the new pathways coming our way. These quotes also lend a different perspective to life, which makes moving forward not a very difficult task.I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause.
Our task is to accept each moment and move on from there, continuing to do our level best.
You decide that you don't want to go backward. You want to go forward. But sometimes, going 'backward' isn't really going backward, it's actually moving forward.
When the fire is over, always, in the ashes, our opportunities to repair, to move forward without vengeance being required - that's kind of the way us humans seem to live. We make massive mistakes. We do stupid things. We do things to survive. And then there's an opportunity to learn from them and move forward with grace. And forgiveness and that gracefulness are very connected.
A very successful woman, Palin has the wherewithal to move forward consciously. What she did was move forward thoughtlessly and overconfidently, without considering that her abilities or qualifications would ever be questioned.
You learn from your mistakes, or you go backward. I'm the kind of person who wants to move forward.
Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move the ball forward every day. They are quick to spot their mistakes and correct.
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