A Quote by Paule Marshall

But sometimes it's necessary to go back before you can go forward, really forward.

Paule Marshall

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Back Before Forward Go Necessary Really Sometimes

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Paule Marshall
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Born: April 9, 1929

Sometimes a person has to go back, really back-to have a sense, an understanding of all that's gone to make them-before they can go forward.

Paule Marshall

I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.

Walter Dean Myers

Sometimes, in order to go forward, You must first go back.

Julia Cameron

I'm never a believer in going back in anything. You move forward, so that's my whole mentality, you make moves to go forward not back.

Jay Sean

Sometimes to go forward you've got to go to the depths of your own personal despair and claw yourself back. From that point, no matter what happens, you know you can do it.

Gordon Strachan

Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.

Swami Vivekananda

Walk that walk and go forward all the time. Don't just talk that talk, walk it and go forward. Also, the walk didn't have to be long strides; baby steps counted too. Go forward.

Chris Gardner

The further forward we go, the further back we have to explore in order to go forward again.

Stephen Gardiner

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.

Leryn Franco

Before, sometimes if the ball was played over my head I wouldn't know where I was but now I feel a lot more comfortable. Sometimes I would be going forward when it really wasn't the right time to go too, but now I'm picking my moments better.

DeAndre Yedlin

There's always a point that if you go forward you win, sometimes you win it all, and if you go back you lose everything.

Philip Anschutz

I learned ... that one can never go back, that one should not ever try to go back - that the essence of life is going forward. Life is really a one way street, isn't it?

Agatha Christie

You have to go forward: It's the only way. You have to go forward no matter what happens. This is the universal law.

Lauren Oliver

Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.

Yo-Yo Ma

I have to strive to go two steps forward and realize that, sometimes, there will be one step back.

Victoria Moran

That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.

Gertrude Stein

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