100+ Inspirational Quotes to Empower Your Journey of Starting Over

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

- Daphne Rose Kingma

"No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun!"

- C. JoyBell

"A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be."

- Marsha Petrie Sue

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go they merely determine where you start."

- Nido Qubein

"Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand."

- Oprah Winfrey

"What is not started today is never finished tomorrow."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Jim Rohn

"The earth provides us a brand new beginning every twenty-four hours. It is a repeated invitation to breathe in the cool morning air and start afresh; to mimic the sunrise and brighten up while reaching once more for the sky; to carry a glad song in our heart like the early birds; and, as faithfully as the morning dew, to wash off the dust from yesterday."

- Richelle E. Goodrich

"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."

- Thomas Paine

"I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written."

- Juansen Dizon

"You can’t go back and change the beginning. But you can start where you are and change the ending."

- Unknown (often attributed to C.S. Lewis)

"It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day?"

- Mel Gibson

"Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning."

- Desmond Tutu

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

- Seneca

"Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings."

- Ralph Blum

"Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can."

- Douglas Pagels

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect."

- Alan Cohen

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

- J.P. Morgan

"Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"Be willing to be a beginner every single morning."

- Meister Eckhart

"Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb."

- Chinonye J. Chidolue

"It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over."

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

"It's good to start over. It will be scary but you will see what you're really made of; it's the best opportunity to achieve what you never thought you could."

- Jennifer Coletta

"The future lies ahead, calling us up, offering us a new chance to make a new choice every day, offering us the chance to go another way, to start over. The possibilities are countless. All you have to do is just dare to take them."

- Zøe Haslie

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

- T.S. Eliot

"We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."

- Joseph Campbell

"This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change."

- Taylor Swift

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again."

- Buddha

"Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not."

- Craig D. Lounsbrough

"Every day is a fresh beginning; Every morn is the world made new."

- Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

"Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be."

- Joel Osteen

"Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind… let it be something good."

- Mac Anderson

"Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step."

- Muhammad Ali

"Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right."

- Tony Robbins

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"The beginning is always today."

- Mary Shelley

"A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be."

- Bruce Springsteen

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

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"It’s never too late for a new beginning in your life."

- Joyce Meyer

"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."

- T.S. Eliot

"No matter how hard the past, you can always begin again."

- Buddha

"It’s never too late—never too late to start over, never too late to be happy."

- Jane Fonda

"Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be."

- Marsha Petrie Sue

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction."

- Germany Kent

"It is never too late to be what you might have been."

- George Eliot

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

- Winston Churchill

"Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

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

- Guy Finley

"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful."

- Albert Pujols

"Starting a new job can be nerve-racking, but it’s also exciting. You’re embarking on a new future, positioning yourself to write a fresh story on a clean slate."

- Adena T. Friedman

"Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose."

- Anne Sullivan

"As long as you’re still alive, you always have the chance to start again."

- Emily Acker

"You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please."

- Charlotte Eriksson

"Never feel guilty for starting again."

- Rupi Kaur

"You are never too old to start over. Every day is a chance to make changes to create the life we want."

- Karon Waddell

"Whether you think you can, or you think you can’t – you’re right."

- Henry Ford

"Every morning’s dew is a fresh breath of a new beginning."

- Jessica Edouard

"Occasionally, weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you have."

- John Piper

"March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life’s path."

- Kahlil Gibran

"Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can."

- Arthur Ashe

"Every day is a fresh start, a blank canvas to paint upon."

- Craig Sager

"Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy."

- Sarah Ban Breathnach

"The future depends on what you do today."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"It’s humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf and tell it to be quiet."

- Jennifer Ritchie Payette

"A year from now you may wish you had started today."

- Karen Lamb

"You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."

- Zig Ziglar

"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

"It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don’t know about you, but I make plenty. You can’t turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead."

- Mel Gibson

"I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey—a journey that requires a plan."

- Vivian Jokotade

"All we can do is our best. And sometimes the best that we can do… is to start over."

- Hayley Atwell

"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

"It’s a new dawn, it’s a new day, it’s a new life for me, and I’m feeling good."

- Nina Simone

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

- Jim Rohn

"To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often."

- John Henry Newman

"With this morning’s sunrise comes a day of things that have never been."

- Toni Sorenson

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?"

- L.M. Montgomery

"Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes."

- Richie Norton

"The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another."

- John Dewey

"With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You can start new chapters in your life because it’s your life, your book."

- Oprah Winfrey

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

- Lao Tzu

"Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start."

- Nibo Qubein

"I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning."

- J. B. Priestley

"A sunrise is God’s way of saying, ‘Let’s start again’."

- Todd Stocker

"You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up for you."

- Barbara Sher

"Pause and remember—it is never too late to begin again, to forgive someone, to have a dream, to meet someone or to love yourself. It is never too late!"

- Jennifer Young

"The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything!"

- Mehmet Murat ildan

"It’s never too late to begin for one who is on the path of making the most of the moment. Where you are is [a] good enough place to begin."

- Abraham Omorogiuwa

"The courage of living is - to take risks, to fail, to get up, and to try again. Try again differently."

- Naide P Obiang

"Regrets and mistakes help us identify areas of growth. They are not meant to be dwelled on. Do not let them undermine your potential."

- Naide P Obiang

"Remembering where and why you fell and learning the lessons well is a good starting point to start all over again with a broaden insight and a renewed fortitude and wit to dare again for victory!"

- Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

"If you can dream it, you can do it."

- Walt Disney

"The future begins today."

- Wayne Gerard Trotman

"It always seems impossible until it is done."

- Nelson Mandela

"Don’t pass on your passions to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure."

- Anthony Liccione

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

- Henry David Thoreau

"The fear of failure is a common motivation killer. People don’t try something new because they fear they will fail at it."

- Cary Bergeron

"Every single job is a challenge. You are walking into a new set, a new character, creating a world and trying to get comfortable to do your best work."

- Felicia Day

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

- Henry Ford

"I didn’t fail 1,000 times. The light bulb was an invention with 1,000 steps."

- Thomas Edison

"Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward."

- Hillary Clinton

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

- Hermann Hesse

"Once you make the decision to move on, don’t look back. Your destiny will never be found in the rearview mirror."

- Mandy Hale

"Endings are always tough, but I believe when something ends, there are new beginnings, new opportunities and new things to be excited for, too."

- Mike Fisher

"While you may lose many of your past possessions, you will still be able to find yourself."

- Deepak Chopra

"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

"If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old."

- Peter F. Drucker

"The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings."

- Dave Weinbaum

"New day, new hopes, new life!"

- Lailah Gifty Akita

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

- Alan Watts

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

- Joseph Campbell

"Every day is a brand-new day, to start over again and live as if nothing has happened yesterday."

- Shaa Zainol

"Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings."

- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning."

- Louis L'Amour

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- Andre Gide

"The beginning is the most important part of the work."

- Plato

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

- Daphne Rose Kingma

"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 exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

"Today is the first day of the rest of your life."

- Charles Dederich

"Each day is filled with promise, potential and possibility."

- Tony Curl

"Beginnings are always messy."

- John Galsworthy

"Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us."

- Mimi Novic

"Everything is possible, even the impossible."

- Mary Poppins

"Relying on God has to begin all over again every day as if nothing had yet been done."

- C.S. Lewis

"The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper and reimagines the world."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God’s promises."

- John Piper

"Your worth consists in what you are and not in what you have."

- Thomas Edison

"Don’t be so arrogant to think God can’t work through your failures."

- Jesus Revolution

"Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it."

- Mark Twain

"The truth is, it doesn't matter how tightly you hold on to certain people, because at the end of the day, what is meant for you will always be yours. Trust me when I say, the right people will choose you just as deeply as you choose them. You will not have to beg for the love you deserve. You will not have to quiet the way your heart beats against your chest. One day, you will be met where you are. One day, you will be someone's favorite thing, and you will not be confused, you will not feel like you are fighting for someone who is not fighting for you. One day, you will understand that it never mattered how hard you held on to the wrong things, how much you tried, because the right things were always unfolding before you. The right things were always choosing to stay."

- Bianca Sparacino

"The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read."

- Mark Twain

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference"