Find Closure With These Quotes About Moving On
Sometimes, you need a push to help you move on from a situation that longer serves you. It could be an unhealthy relationship, a job you’ve outgrown, a breakup with friends: Whatever it may be, it’s important to accept the situation and go forward with your life. To help make the transition onto bigger and better things a little easier, we’ve put together powerful moving on quotes. Use them as fuel to take your next big step, or read them as reminders that it's okay to let go, even when doubt creeps in.
Among these quotes are words of motivation, phrases of inspiration, and encouragement for all, many of which come straight from the mouth of your favorite celebrities, authors, and poets. Within the mix are short moving on quotes, funny moving on quotes, famous moving on quotes, and more. Keep these nuggets of insight to yourself, or share them with others who may also benefit from quotes about change. It can be nice to read every now and again that everything will be okay, even if it isn’t at the moment.
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“Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.”
Tupac Shakur
“You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could've, would've happened... or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.”
Katerina Stoykova Klemer
“Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.”
Maya Angelou
“My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.”
Tina Fey
“Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterward.”
Donald Miller
“Fear tricks us into living a boring life.”
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Nelson Mandela
“There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”
Wilder Poetry
“Letting go is hard, but being free is beautiful.”
Gina Carey
“A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.”
Helen Keller
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
Arthur Ashe
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
Margaret Shepard
“Sometimes, your only available transportation is a leap of faith.”
C.S. Lewis
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
Steve Maraboli
“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.”
Jodi Picoult
“A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back — you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”
Robyn Schneider
“That’s all you can do in this world — no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.”
Charles Bukowski
“What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”
Joel Osteen
“You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t 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.'”
Oprah Winfrey
“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.”
Tori Amos
“Girls, you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“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.”
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Unknown
“There are things that we never want to let go of — people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world; it’s the beginning of a new life.”
Walt Disney
“We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious, and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
Steve Jobs
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.”
Jan Glidewell
“You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”
Tracee Ellis Ross
"I am learning every day to allow the space between where I am and where I want to be to inspire me and not terrify me."
Lyndon B. Johnson
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Lalah Delia
“The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”
Dominic Riccitello
“Sometimes, forever doesn’t happen. And that’s something we all occasionally forget.”
Mimi Novic
“Sometimes, we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.”
Rachel Hartman
“You can't walk away without also walking towards.”
Scott Stabile
“The pain of letting go will be eclipsed by the relief of moving on.”
Joyce Rachelle
“Don't stay in the harbor and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored doesn't mean you have to be.”
Germany Kent
“If it doesn't agree with your spirit, let it go.”
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Nikki Rowe
“You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with.”
Daphne Rose Kingma
"Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future."
Marta Mrotek
"You really don’t have to burn any bridges to let go; you don’t have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on."
Suzy Kassem
“You can't move things by not moving.”
Amit Ray
"If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you'll need to let go of the past that drags you down."
Ava Harrison
“The most liberating moment is the moment you finally let go.”
April Mae Monterrosa
“Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, and what you have no desire to waste your time on.”
Sam Madison
“Moving on is not forgetting. Moving on is being able to remember without feeling awful about it.”
Kami Garcia
“Sometimes, moving forward changes what's behind you.”
Lao Tzu
“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.”
Nicholas Sparks
“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.”
Unknown
“It’s so empowering to say, ‘This isn’t serving me,’ and walk away in peace.”
Stephen King
“My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say ‘I can do this’ even when you know you can’t.”
Albert Einstein
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”
Imania Margria
“Kiss away the past as you head towards the future.”
Michelle Obama
“For me, becoming isn't about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end.”
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