43 Quotes About Change in Life and Moving On

Making a change in your life can take you into unfamiliar territory. These quotes about change in life and moving on will encourage you to take each moment in stride and overcome any barrier that stands in your way.

“A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.”

“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”

“Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.”

“Change has to come for life to struggle forward.”

“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”

“Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.”

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

“Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”

“Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”

“Forgiveness means letting go of the past.”

“I realise there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.”

“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.”

“If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.”

“If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.”

“If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”

“If you love something, you have to let it go.”

“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.”

“If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”

“In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”

“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.”

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

“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.”

“People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.”

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

“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.”

“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.”

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

“Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”

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

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

“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.”

“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.”

“There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.”

“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.”

“We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.”

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

“When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.”

“When lifes seems hopeless, rearrange things for a dose of dopeness.”

“When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.”

“When the world is at your back, and your heart is at your feet…the best way to go on is to just be.”

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

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

“You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever the old means for you.”

You have two choices in life. To stay stuck where you are at or to move forward. Which position do you see yourself being in?