Nora Roberts Quotes

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.

I've never been one to stay in a complacent place where I just let the grass grow around me.

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.

You can't stand still on one point for your entire life.

You’ve got to try and take things to the next level, or you’ll just get stuck in a rut.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

The progress has to start now.

It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.

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

You are either going forward or you are not.

When you're going nowhere, anywhere's a better place to be.

I think there's nothing worse than inertia. You can be inert and study your navel, and gradually fall off the chair. I think the key is to keep flying.

I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

The important thing is that when you come to understand something you act on it, no matter how small that act is. Eventually it will take you where you need to go.

Run to meet the future or it's going to run you down.

You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water.

Even if you are on the right track, you will get run over if you just sit there.

Either move or be moved.

Don't wait for something big to occur. Start where you are, with what you have, and that will always lead you into something greater.

You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.

Even if you’re on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.

The future requires action and not mere conversation.

Momentum begets momentum, and the best way to start is to start.

Mellowing has never done much for me. You need to keep moving.

Nothing changes if we keep playing it safe.