Jack Kerouac 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.

A step in the wrong direction is better than staying on the spot all our life. Once you're moving forward you can correct your course as you go. Your automatic guidance system cannot guide you when you're standing still.

Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither.

Ka works and the world moves on.

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

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

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

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.

To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving.

Movement inspires a lot in me.

To be part of building a movement, you have to keep moving.

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

Move onward and carry into practice.

Example moves the world more than doctrine.

It is the time to move ahead and bring the change

Getting to the next level always requires ending something, leaving it behind, and moving on. Growth demands that we move on. Without the ability to end things, people stay stuck, never becoming who they are meant to be, never accomplishing all that their talents and abilities should afford them.

...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun.

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!

I know what I want to do and it makes sense to get going.

The moving van is a symbol of more than our restlessness, it is the most conclusive evidence possible of our progress.

I feel I'm moving toward as well as away from something, and anything is possible.

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

Falling is one of the ways of moving.

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.