Moving on from a tough time can feel like trying to carry a heavy weight uphill. Each step might seem difficult, but with the right words, you can find strength and hope. Quotes have a unique way of touching our hearts and giving us the courage to let go and embrace new beginnings.
This article shares some of the best quotes about moving on. These words aim to inspire and encourage you to keep moving forward, no matter how tough things get. So, let’s dive in and find the quotes that will help ease your journey.
Fresh Start Quotes
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.” – Denis Waitley
“Though no one can go back and make a brand-new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand-new ending.” – Carl Bard
“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo
“It’s never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“Your time is limited, don’t waste it living someone else’s life.” – Steve Jobs
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C.S. Lewis
“Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.” – Les Brown
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour
“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” – Alan Cohen
“Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.” – Mimi Novic
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu
“The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited, or erased; it can only be accepted.” – Unknown
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato
“Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” – Mandy Hale
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Michael McMillan
“Dissatisfaction is a great starting point, for it is right there that we have the most power, strength, and energy to push change through.” – David DeNotaris
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life.” – Charles Dederich
“Life is about change. Sometimes it’s painful. Sometimes it’s beautiful. But most of the time, it’s both.” – Lana Lang
Love and Loss Quotes
“The heart was made to be broken.” – Oscar Wilde
“The only way to get over a broken heart is to let time heal it.” – Melody Beattie
“Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.” – François de La Rochefoucauld
“Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.” – Washington Irving
“Every time I thought I was being rejected from something good, I was actually being redirected to something better.” – Steve Maraboli
“The hottest love has the coldest end.” – Socrates
“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.” – Dylan Thomas
“It’s better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.” – Alfred Lord Tennyson
“To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.” – William Makepeace Thackeray
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Michael McMillian
“Grief is the price we pay for love.” – Queen Elizabeth II
“Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” – Dave Mustaine
“If there ever comes a day when we can’t be together, keep me in your heart, I’ll stay there forever.” – A.A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
“Don’t let past relationships ruin your future happiness. Scars remind us where we’ve been, not where we’re going.” – Alexa Riley
“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past; you can’t go forward in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches.” – Anonymous
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” – Rosa Luxemburg
“You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop.” – Rumi
“The best way to mend a broken heart is time and girlfriends.” – Gwyneth Paltrow
“Hearts will never be practical until they are made unbreakable.” – L. Frank Baum (The Wizard of Oz)
“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.” – Gerald Jampolsky
“The broken heart. You think you will die, but you just keep living, day after day after terrible day.” – Charles Dickens
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
“If you love something, let it go. If it comes back, it’s yours. If it doesn’t, it never was.” – Anonymous
“After a storm comes a calm.” – Matthew Henry
“You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” – Jodi Picoult
“Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional.” – Haruki Murakami
“This is a good sign, having a broken heart. It means we have tried for something.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.” – Anthony Liccione
“Moving on is not about never looking back. It’s about taking a glance at yesterday and seeing how much you’ve grown since then.” – Anonymous
“What feels like the end is often the beginning.” – Anonymous
“When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Helen Keller
Quotes for Tough Times
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
“Accept the past for what it was. Acknowledge the present for what it is. Anticipate the future for what it can become.” – Tracy Ellis
“Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” - Dave Mustaine
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Anonymous
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
“The truth is unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” – Steve Maraboli
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
“It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure.” – Joseph Campbell
“The only thing tougher than waiting for the future is letting go of the past.” – Unknown
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“When the heart grieves over what it has lost, the spirit rejoices over what it has left.” – Sufi Epigram
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” - Steve Maraboli
“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.” – Mandy Hale
“Change has to come for life to struggle forward.” – Helen Hollick
“Your past is just a story. And once you realize this, it has no power over you.” – Chuck Palahniuk
“You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” – Mandy Hale
“Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life.” – Unknown
“The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.” – Rebecca Solnit
“Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance.” – Melody Beattie
“I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” – Robert Downey Jr.
“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and go on their own.” – Jack Kornfield
“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” – Steve Maraboli
“If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coelho
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” – Ann Landers
“There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.” – Unknown
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“It’s never too late to be who you might have been.” - George Eliot
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
Inspirational Quotes to Move On
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Author Unknown
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
“Courage is not the absence of fear, but the ability to move on despite it.” – John C. Maxwell
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” – Chinese Proverb
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically.” – Joyce Meyer
“Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” – Steve Maraboli
“Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward.” – Erika Taylor
“Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you.” – Shannon L. Alder
“Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.” – Dave Mustaine
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber
“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“The hardest thing in life is to know which bridge to cross and which to burn.” – David Russell
“When you let go, you are truly free.” – Author Unknown
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” – Steve Maraboli
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard
“One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change.” – Author Unknown
“You are allowed to let go of all those that do not set you free anymore.” – Dhiman
“Sometimes letting go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.” – Eckhart Tolle
“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
“Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” – Brian Tracy
“Sometimes you just have to erase the messages, delete the numbers, and move on. You don’t have to forget who that person was to you; you just have to accept that they aren’t that person anymore.” – Author Unknown
Healing Heart Quotes
“The pain you feel today is the strength you feel tomorrow. Every challenge encountered is an opportunity for growth.” – Unknown
“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” – Robert Frost
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Anonymous
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
“Only time can heal your broken heart, just as only time can heal his broken arms and legs.” – Miss Piggy
“What appears to be the end is usually the start of a new beginning.” – Anonymous
“Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” – Tori Amos
“You don’t need closure. You need clarity. Walk away knowing you deserve better.” – Unknown
“The only way to move forward is to stop looking back.” – Unknown
“Forgiveness doesn’t change the past, but it does enlarge the future.” – Paul Boese
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” – Rumi
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” – Steve Maraboli
“It is in the process of emotional release that we find healing.” – Debbie Ford
“Grief isn’t a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith. It is the price of love.” – Anonymous
“Even when things don’t unfold the way you expected, don’t be disheartened or give up. One who continues to advance will win in the end.” – Daisaku Ikeda
“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli
“Healing is an art. It takes time, it takes practice. It takes love.” – Maza Dohta
“Embrace the glorious mess that you are.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.” – Anaïs Nin
“The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited, or erased; it can only be accepted.” – Anonymous
“To heal a wound, you need to stop touching it.” – Unknown
“Healing does not mean the damage never existed. It means the damage no longer controls our lives.” – Akshay Dubey
“Healing is not an overnight process. It is a daily cleansing of pain, it is a daily healing of your life.” – Leon Brown
“The broken will always be able to love harder than most. Once you’ve been in the dark, you learn to appreciate everything that shines.” – Anonymous
“Recovery begins from the darkest moment.” – John Major
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
“Sometimes, the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” – Nicole Sobon
“From the ashes, a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
“One small crack does not mean that you are broken, it means that you were put to the test and you didn’t fall apart.” – Linda Poindexter
“Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.” – Hippocrates
“Stars can’t shine without darkness.” – Unknown
In Conclusion
Moving on from difficult times can be challenging, but the right words can offer comfort and strength. Quotes about moving on provide a source of inspiration, reminding us that better days lie ahead. They help us understand that letting go is part of growing and becoming stronger.
Whether you’re facing a breakup, a job change, or other life changes, these quotes can offer the motivation needed to focus on the future. Keep these wise words close to your heart, and let them guide you as you take steps towards a brighter, happier tomorrow.
