There are many different scenarios that require a form of moving on: dealing with the aftermath of a breakup, not receiving any closure from a friendship that abruptly ended, wanting to leave a job that is negatively impacting your mental health, moving from one city to another, realizing your expectations for family members need to change, choosing to chase your dreams instead of listening to the doubts of others, forgiving someone instead of holding an eternal grudge, etc. Sometimes, you get to be in control of starting over (like resigning from your position), and other times it’s not your choice (being ghosted by a friend, for example). Either way, it’s not always easy to move forward and begin again, but taking those first steps will help you leave toxicity behind and embrace growth instead. Preserve your personal energy and resources, pursue peace, and stay motivated with these 100 quotes about moving on!
100 Moving on Quotes
- “It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” — Nicholas Sparks
- “The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.” ― John Green
- “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
- “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” — Shannon Alder
- “The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.” ― Alyson Noel
- “You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.” — Johnny Cash
- “Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” — Criss Jami
- “I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends - from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase.” — Jennifer Aniston
- “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
- “Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.” — Tori Amos
- “I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.” — Rosie Thomas
- “A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.” — Anthony Liccione
- “Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” — Nicole Sobon
- “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.” — Walter Anderson
- “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” — Daphne Rose Kingma
- “Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.” — Danica Patrick
- “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” — Mandy Hale
- “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.” — Tony Schwartz
- “You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.” — Mary Pickford
- “Recovery begins from the darkest moment.” — John Major
- “It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” — Steve Maraboli
- “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” — Raymond Lindquist
- “Relationships are steppingstones for the evolution of our consciousness. Each interaction we have, be it one of joy or contrast, allows us to learn more about who we are and what we want in this lifetime. They bring us into greater alignment…as long as we continue to move forward and do not get attached to hurt, anger, or being a victim.” ― Alaric Hutchinson
- “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford
- “The only way to go on is to go on. To say ‘I can do this’ even when you know you can’t.” — Stephen King
- “I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what’s happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.” — Joel Osteen
- “Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
- “Girls, you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.” — Tori Amos
- “Take a shower. Wash away every trace of yesterday. Of smells. Of weary skin. Get dressed. Make coffee, windows open, the sun shining through. Hold the cup with two hands and notice that you feel the feeling of warmth. You still feel warmth. " — Charlotte Eriksson
- “Set your goal and keep moving forward.” — Georges St-Pierre
- “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” — Dan Brown
- “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” — Walt Disney
- “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” — Anne Roiphe
- “It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.” — Horace
- “I saw my earlier selves as different people, acquaintances I had outgrown. I wondered how I could ever have been some of them.” ― Roger Zelazny
- “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” — Carrie Underwood
- “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” — Victor Kiam
- “Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.” — Ann Landers
- “She took a step and didn’t want to take any more, but she did.” — Markus Zusak
- “I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.” — Mike Rowe
- “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” — Conrad Hall
- “Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer
- “There’s no time for regrets. You’ve just got to keep moving forward.” — Mike McCready
- “When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can’t make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.” ― April Mae Monterrosa
- “Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.” — Maxwell Maltz
- “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” — Robert Brault
- “If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run then walk, if you can’t walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.” — Martin Luther King Jr.
- “Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.” — Allen Klein
- “You can’t look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” — Jodi Picoult
- “My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.” — Isabel Allende
- “Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.” — Ralph Marston
- “The bravery was in moving forward, no matter what.” — Lauren Oliver
- “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coelho
- “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” — Jojo Moyes
- “Everything for me is either a learn or a win. I just keep moving forward, and that’s about it, honestly.” — Pat McAfee
- “‘Go back?’ he thought. ‘No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!’ So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter.” ― J.R.R. Tolkien
- “If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward.” — John Wooden
- “Above you, is the Mountain of Peace and Prosperity where we all want to go. But when you try to climb that hill, the person you haven’t forgiven weighs you down. It’s a personal choice whether or not to let go.” — Leymah Gbowee
- “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” — Leo Buscaglia
- “Life moves on and so should we.” — Spencer Johnson
- “Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.” — Gordon B. Hinckley
- “You can’t move forward if you’re still hanging on.” — Sue Fitzmaurice
- “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” — Pascal Mercier
- “I have made many decisions that I probably shouldn’t have made, but life is about making mistakes, learning and moving on.” — Shamita Shetty
- “Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.” ― Wayne L Misner
- “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” — J. K. Rowling
- “If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” — Carlos Santana
- “Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.” — Turcois Ominek
- “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” — C. JoyBell C.
- “Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day, it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.” — Tere Arigo
- “Don’t doubt yourself, that’s what haters are for.” ― Turcois Ominek
- “A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I’m sure that’s true, but they aren’t willing to make healing a high priority. They aren’t willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.” — Lindsay Wagner
- “It takes ten times as long to put yourself back together as it does to fall apart.” ― Suzanne Collins
- “Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on.” – Bob Newhart
- “It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.” — Angelina Jolie
- “Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” — Katherine Mansfield
- “It’s not a matter of letting go - you would if you could. Instead of ’let it go’ we should probably say ’let it be.’” — Jon Kabat-Zinn
- “I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.” ― Shannon A. Thompson
- “Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.” — Joyce Meyer
- “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.’” — Joel Osteen
- “To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.” — Jack Kornfield
- “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” — Oprah Winfrey
- “To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..” — H.P. Lovecraft
- “In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it’s just a case of moving on and learning from it.” — James Nesbitt
- “Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.” — Erich Fromm
- “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” — Lyndon B. Johnson
- “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” — Theodore Roosevelt
- “My father taught me that you can you read a hundred books on wisdom and write a hundred books on wisdom, but unless you apply what you learned then its only words on a page. Life is not lived with intentions, but action.” ― Shannon Alder
- “Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” — Mary Manin Morrissey
- “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
- “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
- “I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.” — Beryl Markham
- “You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go.” — Drew Gerald
- “One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.” — Mandy Hale
- “You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn’t, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.” — Octavia Spencer
- “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 all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there’s always something beautiful that you can find.” — Mattie Stepanek
- “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” — Steve Maraboli Check out:- 100 stay positive quotes- 100 tough times quotes- 100 quotes about not giving up- 100 quotes about peace
