100+ Inspirational Quotes About Moving On to Empower Your Journey

"Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on."

- Carrie Underwood

"You can't possibly embrace that new relationship, new companion, new career, new friendship, or new life, when you’re hanging on to the baggage of the past."

- Steve Maraboli

"The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday."

- Steve Maraboli

"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

"The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go."

- Shannon L. Alder

"Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on."

- Les Brown

"Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn’t happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?"

- Elizabeth Scott

"No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."

- Maya Angelou

"Let go and allow yourself to be flooded with love. You can let go of the pattern now that you truly understand that you're no longer a victim."

- Louise Hay

"Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Your past does not equal your future."

- Tony Robbins

"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 demolish my bridges behind me… then there is no choice but to move forward."

- Fridtjof Nansen

"Stop acting as if life is a rehearsal. Live this day as if it were your last. The past is over and gone. The future is not guaranteed."

- Wayne Dyer

"Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most."

- Buddha

"Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving"

- Albert Einstein

"Forgiveness means letting go of the past."

- Gerald Jampolsky

"Letting go is brave. It shows a great determination to embrace life’s next chapter."

- Karon Waddell

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on."

- Robert Frost

"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform"

- Roy T. Bennett

"Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret, and depression. Do not repeat them in the future."

- Swami Sivananda

"Healing means releasing yourself from the past... no matter the circumstances."

- Trish Blackwell

"Sometimes letting go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on."

- Eckhart Tolle

"When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be."

- Lao Tzu

"Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering."

- Hal Tipper

"Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over."

- Guy Finley

"The moment after being let go, when we can finally let it go, is the moment of freedom."

- Marianne Williamson

"Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us."

- Melody Beattie

"Life is about change. Sometimes it’s painful. Sometimes it’s beautiful. But most of the time, it’s both."

- Lana Lang

"Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t ‘should’ have done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!"

- Steve Maraboli

"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.

"Moving on doesn’t mean you forget about things, it just means you have to accept what happened and continue living."

- Erza Scarlet

"You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself."

- Mandy Hale

"Sometimes you’ve gotta let go of the picture of what you thought it would be like and learn to find joy in the story you’re actually living."

- Rachel Marie Martin

"You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding."

- Guy Finley

"It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on."

- Steve Maraboli

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go."

- Hermann Hesse

"Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness."

- Steve Maraboli

"Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over."

- Nicole Sobon

"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.

"Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?"

- Leo Buscaglia

"Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go."

- Roy T. Bennett

"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

"You can’t reach for anything new if your hands are still full of yesterday’s junk."

- Louise Smith

"If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go of the past that drags you down."

- Amit Ray

"Life moves on and so should we."

- Spencer Johnson

"Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future."

- Daphne Rose Kingma

"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."

- Seneca

"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

"Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on."

- Carrie Underwood

"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

"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

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong but sometimes it is letting go."

- Hermann Hesse

"The truth is unless you let go—forgive yourself, forgive the situation, realize the past is over—you cannot move forward."

- Steve Maraboli

"If you want to fly in the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go of the past that drags you down."

- Amit Ray

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong."

- Mandy Hale

"We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- E.M. Forster

"Looking back isn’t going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do."

- McKayla Maroney

"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

"Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly."

- Henry Miller

"Sooner or later we've all got to let go of our past."

- Dan Brown

"Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you."

- Shannon L. Alder

"You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you."

- Jojo Moyes

"When the past calls, let it go to voicemail. It has nothing new to say and you don’t have to listen. Would you really dig into yesterday’s garbage to make tonight’s meal? Do you dig into yesterday’s mental garbage to create today’s experiences?"

- Louise Hay

"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

"Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened."

- Dr. Seuss

"Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future."

- Robin Sharma

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose."

- Lyndon B. Johnson

"Courage is the power to let go of the familiar."

- Raymond Lindquist

"You are allowed to let go of all those that do not set you free anymore."

- Dhiman

"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

"You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway."

- Steve Maraboli

"Even as I hold you, I am letting you go."

- Alice Walker

"No amount of guilt can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future."

- Umar ibn Al-Khattab

"Let go of becoming but never let go of taking action. Stop expecting and start living."

- Maxime Lagacé

"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

"The sooner we let go of holding on, the sooner we can hold on to the beauty of what's unfolding before us. Nothing was ever meant to stay the same forever."

- Julieanne O'Connor

"When things start to fall apart in your life, you feel as if your whole world is crumbling. But actually it’s your fixed identity that’s crumbling. And that’s cause for celebration."

- Pema Chödrön

"Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to."

- Mandy Hale

"The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character."

- Albert Schweitzer

"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

"Sometimes you have to make a decision that will break your heart but will give peace to your soul."

- Trent Shelton

"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

"I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future."

- Carl Sandburg

"We all need closure in certain things and moving on involves closure."

- Jennifer Aniston

"The heart will break, but broken live on."

- Lord Byron

"Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what’s even scarier? Regret."

- Zig Ziglar

"It is by going down into the abyss that we recover the treasures of life. Where you stumble, there lies your treasure."

- Joseph Campbell

"Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard."

- Dave Mustaine

"It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure."

- Ernie Harwell

"Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever."

- Leo Buscaglia

"Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off."

- Demi Lovato

"By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry."

- Jack Dempsey

"Free yourself from the complexities of your life. A life of simplicity and happiness awaits you."

- Steve Maraboli

"I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you."

- Paul Anka

"Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair."

- Edmund Burke

"Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life."

- Anne Roiphe

"Forget the past."

- Nelson Mandela

"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

"Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future."

- Lewis B. Smedes

"It’s not the load that breaks you down, it’s the way you carry it."

- Lou Holtz

"Change has to come for life to struggle forward."

- Helen Hollick

"I can't go on. I'll go on."

- Samuel Beckett

"It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace paradox rather than choose up sides."

- Tony Schwartz

"People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. They prefer suffering that is familiar to the unknown."

- Thich Nhat Hanh

"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

"Baby steps count too, as long as you’re moving forward."

- Chris Gardner

"A ship is always safe at shore. But that is not what it is built for."

- Albert Einstein

"When all is lost, when all is let go of, when all is abandoned, what you are left with is an ocean of bliss."

- Robert Thurman

"Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on."

- Elizabeth Scott

"The ultimate act of power is surrender."

- Krishna Das

"Change is never easy, but always possible."

- Barack Obama

"The nearer a man comes to a calm mind, the closer he is to strength."

- Marcus Aurelius

"The key in letting go is practice. Each time we let go, we disentangle ourselves from our expectations and begin to experience things as they are."

- Sharon Salzberg

"The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there’s gold in letting go of them."

- John Seely Brown

"Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like."

- Lao Tzu

"Surrender is a journey from outer turmoil to inner peace."

- Sri Chinmoy

"To resist change, to try to cling to life, is like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself."

- Alan Watts

"Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out"

- Gordon B. Hinchley

"I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right."

- Paulo Coelho

"Move forward with purpose"

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

"If we fail to adapt, we fail to move forward”"

- John Wooden

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself"

- Andy Warhol

"You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward"

- Conrad Hall

"Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Jung

"The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it."

- Omar Khayyam

"Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction."

- Al Bernstein

"I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there."

- Billy Corgan

"Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was."

- Tina Weymouth

"Sometimes you’re flush and sometimes you’re bust, and when you’re up, it’s never as good as it seems, and when you’re down, you never think you’ll be up again, but life goes on."

- George Jung

"A bridge can still be built while the bitter waters are flowing beneath."

- Anthony Liccione

"If strength is love, then we weren't strong enough, But if strength is letting love go, we were."

- Joe Bolton

"Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care."

- Jerry Cantrell

"The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go."

- Steve Maraboli

"Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup."

- Drake

"The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that, lies hope."

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Forget the past - the future will give you plenty to worry about."

- George Allen, Sr.

"The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on."

- Ulysses S. Grant

"Happiness is a direction, not a place."

- Sydney J. Harris

"There ain't no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it."

- Kate DiCamillo

"The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss."

- Rebecca Solnit

"If I feel like things are getting into a routine, I want them to be different. I need to keep improving and keep moving forward."

- Joe Bonamassa

"It is the same with people as it is with riding a bike. Only when moving can one comfortably maintain one’s balance."

- Albert Einstein

"If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment."

- Carlos Santana

"Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."

- Epictetus

"Know that everything is in perfect order whether you understand it or not."

- Valery Satterwhite

"Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken."

- Albert Camus

"Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress … I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties."

- Pope Francis

"If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on."

- Rick Ross

"Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love."

- Mason Cooley

"The past always looks better than it was because it isn’t here."

- Finley Peter Dunne

"One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved."

- Romain Rolland

"Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live."

- Mae Jemison

"So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good."

- Helen Keller

"You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy."

"You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."

"The more anger towards the past you carry in your heart, the less capable you are of loving in the present."

"Life is about moving on, accepting changes and looking forward to what makes you stronger and more complete"

"The hardest part about moving forward is not looking back"

"When you bring peace to your past, you can move forward to your future"

"You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward. Just take the next step"

"Where you moving? I said, onto better things"

"Stop focusing on what happened and start focusing on what’s going to move you forward"

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today"

"Whenever you find yourself doubting how far you can go, just remember how far you have come. Remember everything you have faced, all the battles you have won, and all the fears you have overcome"

"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one."

"Focus on what you can control, let go of what you can’t."

"One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change."

- Unknown

"Sometimes you can’t let go of what’s making you sad, because it was the only thing that made you happy."