D. H. Lawrence Quotes

Whatever you do in your daily life - driving from here to there, trying to reach someone on the phone, doing this or that - you always are going toward somewhere. That's inevitable.

Things should all be moving toward the expression of a great idea.

There is progress whether ye are going forward or backward! The thing is to move!

It is hard to begin to move when you don't know where you are moving, how to move, or if you are going to get there.

I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard thing to do, I think.

If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go.

Either move or be moved.

Everyone needs an objective, and everyone needs a goal, and it was frustrating just kind of being at a standstill.

We have to imagine change before we can begin to move toward it.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

It was the only way to progress, to stop.

Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!

talk was cheap and useless. Action was what mattered. And me, I was moving. Now, again, always.

Nothing is ever solved, or created, by standing still. Movement is the process of the Universe. So move. Do something. Anything. But do not stand still. Do not fence sit. Put your foot down on one side or the other, swing the opposite leg over and start walking. You'll know before you take ten steps if you're going in the right direction.

No one can move without some leadership.

You have to be going somewhere to have the energy you need to get there.

Every year, something happens, and it turns me in a direction about where I need to go and what I need to do to give these guys direction.

Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction.

Tis action moves the world....[in] the game of chess, mind that: ye cannot leave your men to stand unmoving on the board and hope to win. A soldier must first step upon the battlefield if does mean to cross it.

We were all delighted, we all realized we were leaving confusion and nonsense behind and performing our one and noble function of the time, move.

. . . What do you wish to be? What would you like to become?” I did not know, and I told her so, but the question worried me. Should I know? “There is time,” she said, “but the sooner you know, the sooner you can plan. To have a goal is the important thing, and to work toward it. Then, if you decide you wish to do something different, you will at least have been moving, you will have been going somewhere, you will have been learning.

The slope takes you to the windmill, but effort takes you nowhere.

I always felt like I was on the move, that I was going towards something.

We all get lost along the way, but hopefully we figure out some sort of path. It helps if you can imagine the process as well as the goal. Those kinds of dreams are easier to achieve.

Moving fast is not the same as going somewhere.