Pushing Quotes

The true way is the middle one, halfway between deserving a place and pushing oneself into it.

Bullies do whatever they can get away with and keep pushing boundaries until they meet resistance.

Do not dash if you only have the strength to walk, and do not waste your time pushing on the walls that will not give. More importantly, don't shove where a pat would be sufficient.

Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

By pushing or forcing something upon people, you tend to push people further away.

I'm very active in pushing for net neutrality and an open Internet. There are countless other causes I support personally and privately, but I try to keep my public activism fairly focused.

In my own little way, I feel like I'm part of a group of writers who care deeply about pushing the essay forward.

I guess we have the press to thank for pushing us to see something we didn't see!

There was a price to be paid for being interested in fiction and in writing, pushing my family away. Books and authors became my family.

There are women & girls who are pushing the boundaries for what society deems as "normal." We need these pioneers to inspire future generations to dream big and strive to achieve those dreams.

I want to be the kind of artist who keeps pushing on every album. I don't want to settle on a sound.

I'm not sure if I'm most happy when I'm comfortable and content or when I'm pushing myself to the limits. There are such different versions of happy, and I really appreciate both.

I push everyone I love away." He shrugged. "I don't mind you pushing me away if it means you love me, little sister.

I like challenges in life and pushing myself out of my comfort zone.

I am thrilled to be alive at time when humanity is pushing against the limits of understanding. Even better, we may eventually discover that there are no limits.

Silence is the necessary space around things that allows them to develop and flourish without my pushing.

I'd like to see a little more action on the energy side of things. I've been pushing for some kind of a carbon tax for years, and it seems to me we've had lots of opportunities to do it.

If you don't keep pushing the limits, you wake up one day and you're the "center square to block."

I saw the Fall of Troy! World War Five! I was pushing boxes at the Boston Tea Party! Now I'm gonna die in a dungeon.... [disgustedly] in Cardiff!

We have run out of creativity for children and teachers alike in the name of pushing up standards.

Every leap forward that I make is by reaching back and firmly getting a footing in the past, and pushing forward as hard as I can.

Al-Maliki is pushing my country to reach a turning point with deeply sectarian dimension.

This is nothing. The last couple of batches of [Hillary Clinton's] emails have revealed exactly nothing. Now, who is pushing this notion that there was a quid pro quo in the State Department?

He started pushing to make birdies and you don't do that when you're down.

Whatever you cut when there's no deadline isn't really a cut. You're just pushing colors around.

I always pushed myself. Whenever I felt I needed to stop, I made myself run faster.

I love Katy Perry and Lady GaGa. I think GaGa's pushing the envelope every day and I really like that.

Cigars should be like onions," she said, unfastening the catch and pushing back the pane. "Either the whole company does, or the whole company does not.

Avarice is insatiable, and is always pushing on for more.

We only get better by pushing ourselves.

The actors that I love to work with, they're hard on me. They're pushing me.

The damned cats like pushing the reset button on my computer.

I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!

I'm always ready and willing to just keep pushing and working and going because it's in my spirit.

When you touch me there, honey, makes my blood perspire, you got my body flaming like a California fire. Pulsing, pounding, pushing no longer in control, heatwave in my brain, smolder in my soul.

And I want a gold medal more than anything. I just want a gold medal, so that's been pushing me forward.

Boredom has an important function, because pushing through it can unleash creativity.

He is not the same person as when we met, but . . . neither am I. Time has refined us, but instead of pushing us apart, we’re closer than ever.

There have been so many people that have come up and embraced me as an example of what it's like to face something tough and just get up the next day and keep pushing.

In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.

When there's somebody racing side-by-side, when somebody's right next to me and they're pushing and we're both tired, we're both fatigued, I want to be able to beat them mentally.

It's surprising that readers don't see challenging writing as morally hazardous, when it might be pushing the same kinds of boundaries as art does.

Ironically, the people who do not need Israel are gradually taking over Israel, and they're actually pushing out people who so need it.

It's really exciting to be a part of something new that's pushing boundaries.

I think [Guettel is] probably one of our most special writers now, pushing things in ways that are unique.

Seeing ahead is fun. But pushing is very hard work.

My daughter, I can't give up because she's watching and she's here and she's waiting for me to be an example. So, between her, myself, and my will, and me pushing myself, that's my inspiration.

That's why I started amplifying my voice at all, to capture the little sounds I make when I am pushing my body physically, drumming away.

As long as you're pushing men to stay at work, you're pushing women to stay home.

The prejudice is against men and women - assuming men stay at work. That's the reason why we don't have enough women in the halls of power - the prejudice is pushing women to go home.