100+ Inspirational Quotes to Motivate Your Move and Embrace New Beginnings

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

- Albert Einstein

"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And you are the one who’ll decide where to go."

- Dr. Seuss

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

- McKayla Maroney

"Move forward with purpose"

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

"Keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things."

- Walt Disney

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started. The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."

- Mark Twain

"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

"Life is life a bicycle. To keep you balance you must keep moving."

- Albert Einstein

"Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."

- Martin Luther King

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

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

- Chris Gardner

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"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

"You can't live in the past. You keep moving forward."

- Mark Ingram II

"Dream big, start small, but most of all, start."

- Simon Sinek

"The only way to make sense of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

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

- J.P. Morgan

"And suddenly, you know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings."

- Meister Eckhart

"Change is the only constant in life."

- Heraclitus

"Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Chris Gardner

"Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end."

- Robin Sharma

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Seneca

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

"Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."

- Conrad Hilton

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

- Carl Jung

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

- Albert Einstein

"The key to life when it gets tough is to keep moving. Just keep moving."

- Tyler Perry

"When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too."

- Paulo Coelho

"Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward."

- Maxwell Maltz

"Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly."

- Stephen R. Covey

"I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go."

- Langston Hughes

"Do or do not. There is no try."

- Yoda

"There's no time for regrets. You've just got to keep moving forward."

- Mike McCready

"The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."

- Stephen Covey

"You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

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

- John Wooden

"If your world doesn’t allow you to dream, move to one where you can."

- Billy Idol

"As long as you as an individual… can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as ‘one of the faithful,’ one of those people who can say, ‘Well, look, something’s going to happen! Let’s just keep trying. Let’s not give up.”"

- Tom Hanks

"Let him that would move the world first move himself."

- Socrates

"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

"Here’s to new beginnings, new adventures, and moving to new places!"

- Dr. Seuss

"If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet…"

- Rachel Wolchin

"Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don’t move."

- Marc Jacobs

"Resilience is accepting your new reality, even if it’s less good than the one you had before. You can fight it, you can do nothing but scream about what you’ve lost, or you can accept that and try to put together something that’s good."

- Elizabeth Edwards

"Those who do not move, do not notice their chains."

- Rosa Luxemburg

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof."

- Barbara Kingsolver

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

- Conrad Hall

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never stops at all."

- Emily Dickinson

"Hope can be a powerful force. Maybe there’s no actual magic in it, but when you know what you hope for most and hold it like a light within you, you can make things happen, almost like magic."

- Laini Taylor

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Hope begins in the dark. The stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up."

- Anne Lamott

"The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones."

- Confucius

"The only person that ever stumbles is a guy moving forward. You don't stumble backwards; you stumble forward, and you never stumble when you're stationary. So don't worry about stumbling. Keep pushing it forward."

- James Carville

"Believe you can, and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Don't watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore."

- Andre Gide

"Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!"

- Tim Ferriss

"The question isn’t who is going to let me, it’s who is going to stop me."

- Ayn Rand

"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

"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

"Stay focused, go after your dreams and keep moving toward your goals."

- LL Cool J

"To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving."

- Jerry Seinfeld

"A lot of things are going to happen that you can't necessarily control all the time, but you can control what you do after it happens. So that's what I try to do, keep my head up, keep moving forward, stay positive and just work hard."

- Lonzo Ball

"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

"Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward."

- Anderson Silva

"You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward."

- Joel Osteen

"The longer we keep looking back in the rearview mirror, it takes away from everything that's moving forward."

- Dan Quinn

"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."

- Morgan Freeman

"Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation."

- Nia Peeples

"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

"It's just life. You have to be able to get up, face your flaws, and just, whatever it is, a step, an inch, you just got to keep moving forward."

- Monty Williams

"Don't hold on to the past; it won't help in moving forward. Dare to dream big."

- Rajeev Suri

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

- Dave Mustaine

"When you retire, you don't get fat and old. C'mon: it's like a shark. Sharks never stop swimming; that's when they die. You gotta keep moving."

- Reggie Miller

"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it - but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor."

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

"I am able to get up and dust myself off and keep moving forward. I'm very stubborn."

- Rita Moreno

"I am grateful for all the moments that I have, and I'm moving forward one step at a time to the future."

- Park Bo-gum

"With each step I take, I see that my ability to perform gets a little better. So until it starts getting worse, I'm going to keep moving forward."

- Rivers Cuomo

"Everything for me is either a learn or a win. I just keep moving forward, and that's about it, honestly."

- Pat McAfee

"Everything happens just like it's supposed to happen; you've just got to roll with it and keep moving forward."

- Joseph Benavidez

"When you look on the bright side, you're acknowledging that there is a dark side at which you are choosing not to gaze. If you think that the darkest hour is before the dawn, you accept that you are moving from darkness to light."

- Srikumar Rao

"Have no fear of moving into the unknown. Simply step out fearlessly knowing that I am with you, therefore no harm can befall you; all is very, very well. Do this in complete faith and confidence."

- Pope John Paul II

"The magic thing about home is that it feels good to leave, and it feels even better to come back."

- Wendy Wunder

"Grief is never something you get over. You don't wake up one morning and say, 'I've conquered that; now I'm moving on.' It's something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity."

- Terri Irwin

"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.

"Life doesn't always end up where you want it to go; you have to be an optimist and keep moving forward."

- Tinsley Mortimer

"I think the only way for you to grow and evolve is to keep listening, keep moving forward, keep jumping in and trying to experience."

- Dianne Reeves

"My trust in a higher power that wants me to survive and have love in my life, is what keeps me moving forward."

- Kenny Loggins

"By nature, I keep moving, man. My theory is, be the shark. You've just got to keep moving. You can't stop."

- Brad Pitt

"It's not only moving that creates new starting points. Sometimes all it takes is a subtle shift in perspective, an opening of the mind, an intentional pause and reset, or a new route to start to see new options and new possibilities."

- Kristin Armstrong

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking"

- Albert Einstein

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

- Frank Lloyd Wright

"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

"Happiness is a direction, not a place."

- Sydney J. Harris

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

- Al Bernstein

"Just one small positive thought in the morning can change your whole day."

- Dalai Lama

"One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress."

- Viggo Mortensen

"It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else"

- Steven Hawking

"Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."

- Robert Louis Stevenson

"We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives."

- Maya Angelou

"In the depth of winter, I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer."

- Albert Camus

"The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance."

- Jodi Picoult

"The oak fought the wind and was broken, the willow bent when it must and survived."

- Robert Jordan

"So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong, and you'll finally see the truth, that a hero lies in you"

- Mariah Carey

"Focus on being productive instead of busy."

- Tim Ferris

"If you don't pay appropriate attention to what has your attention, it will take more of your attention than it deserves."

- David Allen

"Effective performance is preceded by painstaking preparation"

- Brian Tracy

"Proper preparation prevents poor performance."

- Stephen Keague

"Amplifying what is great within you will accelerate your life faster than fixing what you think ‘limits’ you."

- Brendon Burchard

"Home is where your story begins."

- Annie Danielson

"The ache for home lives in all of us."

- Maya Angelou

"Home is not a place; it’s a feeling."

- Cecelia Ahern

"Your new home should be the story of who you are and be a collection of what you love."

- Nate Berkus

"Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later."

- Bob Goff

"Every adventure requires a first step."

- Cheshire Cat

"Beginnings are usually scary, and endings are usually sad. But it’s everything in between that makes it all worth living."

- Bob Marley

"The good man is the man who, no matter how morally unworthy he has been, is moving to become better."

- John Dewey

"No matter where you go, there you are."

- Confucius

"Follow your own path and let people talk."

- Dante

"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question."

- Harun Yahya

"Adventure is worthwhile."

- Aesop

"Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time."

- Vivek Naik

"Create with the heart; build with the mind."

- Criss Jami

"Enthusiasm is excitement with inspiration, motivation, and a pinch of creativity."

- Bo Bennett

"When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'"

- Mister Rogers

"For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction."

- Michelle Obama

"The journey itself is home."

- Matsuo Bashō

"What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between multiple tasks, which reduces productivity and increases mistakes by up to 50 percent."

- Susan Cain

"Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all."

- Peter Drucker

"To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"Creativity involves breaking out of expected patterns in order to look at things in a different way."

- Edward de Bono

"Letting go doesn’t mean you stop caring; it means you stop trying to force things."

- Mandy Hale

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

- Andy Warhol

"The next generation has always been and will be better than the previous one. If it is not, then the world would not be moving forward."

- Kapil Dev

"Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough."

- Mark Zuckerberg

"I will keep America moving forward, always forward, for a better America, for an endless enduring dream and a thousand Points of Light. This is my mission, and I will complete it."

- George H. W. Bush

"Have no fear of perfection, you’ll never reach it"

- Salvador Dali

"A wind that blows aimlessly is no good to anyone."

- Rick Riordan

"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

"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"

- Anonymous

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

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page."

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

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

"Sometimes, you have to let go of what you thought your life would be and embrace where you are now."

"Moving on is about accepting what happened and continuing your journey."

"To leave the past behind, you must let go of the weight that holds you down."

"Moving on is a way to reclaim your power."

"Moving means evolving, and evolution is the essence of growth."

"Every step you take brings you closer to where you want to be."

"A new beginning is a chance to write a new story."

"Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Be afraid of staying the same."

"Moving forward is not a choice, it’s a necessity."

"Don’t let the fear of moving forward hold you back."

"Moving is a reminder that life is in constant motion."

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

"Every move is a chance to recreate yourself."

"Moving isn’t just about boxes; it’s about dreams coming to life."

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

"To move is to take a leap of faith and embrace the unknown."

"Sometimes you have to move out of your comfort zone to find your new adventure."

"It’s not the goodbye that hurts, but the memories."

"The only thing harder than moving is deciding what to keep."

"Why own things when moving them is such a pain?"

"I have too much stuff. Time to move to a bigger house… or declutter."

"The best way to pack? Shove it all in a box and hope for the best!"

"Moving: The ultimate test of friendship."

"I am not a hoarder; I’m a curator of memories."

"Home is where you unpack last."

"A house is made of bricks and beams. A home is made of hopes and dreams."

- Unknown

"Moving to a new home is the first page of a new chapter."

"New home, new adventures, new memories."