20 Empowering good quotes about moving on

These good quotes about moving on will empower you, whether leaving a job, a relationship or just starting a new chapter in your life, sometimes you just HAVE to move on...

I remember back in the early 90’s when I was in college, summer came early that year and my buddies and I were brimming with team spirit. Then came Elizabeth, my college sweetheart who I was with for the whole of the summer. That’s right, one summer, one girl, to the great surprise of my friends and family it was just Elizabeth and me. In September when she left to go back home suddenly  I was heartbroken.

When it comes to moving on from difficult situations in life there’s no doubt you need to be brave. The right words at the right time can give you the strength you need to get yourself to a stronger place emotionally and give you the ability to deal with the situation at hand. Since the book of quotes from college, whenever I have a crisis or issue to deal with in life I reach for some quotes. I hope these good quotes about moving on will help you and give you what you need to overcome any hardship life throws at you.

 Empowering good quotes about moving on worth pondering

1. "Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

– Maria Robinson -

2. "Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive."

– Donald Trump -

3. "God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference."

– Reinhold Niebuhr -

4. "You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself ‘I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’ You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

- Eleanor Roosevelt -

5. "Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on."

– Bob Newhart -

6. "Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit."

– Conrad Hilton -

7. "How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown."

– Elisabeth Kubler-Ross -

8. "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 -

9. "Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, I will try again tomorrow."

– Mary Anne Radmacher -

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

– Albert Einstein -

11. "The brightest future will always be based on a forgotten past, you can’t go on well in life until you let go of your past failures and heartaches."

– Unknown -

12. "Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass… It’s about learning how to dance in the rain."

– Vivian Greene -

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

– Joseph Campbell -

14. "Any change, any loss, does not make us victims. Others can shake you, surprise you, disappoint you, but they can’t prevent you from acting, from taking the situation you’re presented with and moving on. No matter where you are in life, no matter what your situation, you can always do something. You always have a choice and the choice can be power."

– Blaine Lee -

15. "When the door of happiness closes, another opens. But often times we look so long at the closed door that we don’t see the one which has been opened for us."

– Alexander Graham Bell -

16. "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 -

17. "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 -

18. "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. -

19. "Take a second out to think about this: in your life you search and search for the right person for you. Every time you break up with someone you get one step closer to that person. You should look at moving on as getting closer to meeting the one."

– Ian Philpot -

20. "Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

– Dale Carnegie -

I shuffled around the campus for weeks on end, even my buddies couldn’t get through to me. Until one day, a friend of mine gave me a book, a book that changed my life, something along the lines of ‘the most famous inspirational quotes of all time’, in the book there was a section called ‘moving on’ and some of the quotes I read there, for some reason instantly cured my melancholy. As if like medicine to my soul as I read the quotes my suffering dissipated and  I became free of the pain I had felt since Elizabeth left. I realized then that it’s important to have the ability to ‘move on’ from painful life situations, as I learnt back then with Elizabeth, sometimes you just have to.

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