109 Moving On Quotes To Help You Move Forward

Life has its highs and lows, twists and turns, and unexpected challenges. But no matter what, life keeps moving. Here are 109 moving on quotes to remind you to stay strong, embrace change, and see the good ahead. When things get hard, let these quotes guide you forward.

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“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
“The only way to move on is to let go.” – Unknown
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” – Steve Maraboli
“Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“The hardest part about moving forward is not looking back.” – Unknown
“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back.” – Alyson Noel
“Sometimes you have to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains, and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Unknown
“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
“You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” – Unknown
“To heal a wound, you need to stop touching it.” – Unknown
“The past cannot be changed, forgotten, edited, or erased. It can only be accepted.” – Unknown
“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli
“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die, and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.” – Bryant McGill
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity, and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides.” – Tony Schwartz
“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.” – Nicholas Sparks
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
“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.” – C. JoyBell C.
“You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” – Jodi Picoult
“Your past does not define you. It prepares you.” – Unknown
“Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass but learning to dance in the rain.” – Vivian Greene
“Accept what is, let go of what was, and have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti
“Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.” – Katerina Stoykova Klemer
“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.” – Steve Maraboli
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber
“You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” – Guy Finley
“Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma
“Change has to come for life to struggle forward.” – Helen Hollick
“The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” – Steve Maraboli
“We must be willing to let go of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell
“Moving on is not closure. It’s not neat, and it’s not about turning the page. It’s about moving through your life, every day, and being present to every moment.” – Unknown
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life.” – Mary Manin Morrissey
“You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever ‘the old’ means for you.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” – Lyndon B. Johnson
“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
“It’s not the future that you’re afraid of. It’s repeating the past that makes you anxious.” – Unknown
“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” – Will Rogers
“You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The only way to escape the past is to keep moving forward.” – Unknown
“I think 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. And so you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” ― Nicholas Sparks
“No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” – Maya Angelou
“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” ― Steve Maraboli
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline to impose, if we would but realize it, than to accept life unquestioningly.” – Henry Miller
“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.” ― Joel Osteen
“Things end. People leave. And you know what? Life goes on. Besides, if bad things didn’t happen, how would you be able to feel the good ones?” – Elizabeth Scott
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”― Deborah Reber
“Don’t cry because it’s over. Smile because it happened.” – Dr. Seuss
“You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” ― C. JoyBell C.
“Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.” – Elizabeth Scott
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”― Steve Maraboli
“Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.” – Tina Weymouth
“Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” ― Mary Manin Morrissey
“Do not be afraid to help one another. The devil is looking for rivalry, division, gangs. Keep working to make progress … I have seen how pain does not stifle the hope deep within the human heart and how life goes on, finding new strength even in the midst of difficulties.” – Pope Francis
“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.”― Shannon L. Alder
“Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” – Mae Jemison
“Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed, because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus, or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be.” ― C. JoyBell C.
“Sometimes you’re flush and sometimes you’re bust, and when you’re up, it’s never as good as it seems, and when you’re down, you never think you’ll be up again, but life goes on.” – George Jung
“Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.”― Tori Amos
“Regardless of how it goes down, life goes on.” – Rick Ross
“Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” ― Criss Jami
“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” ― Steve Maraboli
“There comes a time in your life when you have to choose to turn the page, write another book or simply close it.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“The heart will break, but broken live on.” –Lord Byron
“Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” ― Dan Brown
“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all: This, too, shall pass.” –Ann Landers
“Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake & help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” ― Mandy Hale
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: It goes on.” –Robert Frost
“You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” ― Jodi Picoult
“Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” ―Steve Maraboli
“It was strange, really. A couple of months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently, I could.” ― Gabrielle Zevin
“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.” –Alyson Noel
“I demolish my bridges behind me…then there is no choice but to move forward” ― Fridtjof Nansen
“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.” –Tao Te Ching
“To be bitter is to attribute intent and personality to the formless, infinite, unchanging and unchangeable void. We drift on a chartless, resistless sea. Let us sing when we can, and forget the rest..” ― H.P. Lovecraft
“I always get to where I am going by walking away from where I have been.” —Winnie the Pooh
“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” ― Katherine Mansfield
“When you feel at peace with your troubles, they turn into lessons and ladders to help you climb to the next level of your evolution.”― Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA
“Life moves on and so should we.” ― Spencer Johnson
“Get past your past, be a presence in your present, and let no one refute your future.”―Johnnie Dent Jr
“It is not easy to let go, but when you do; not only do you realize the strength that lies within you, you also create an opportunity to see God perform the best of miracles in your life.”―Gift Gugu Mona
“You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.” ― Jojo Moyes
“Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” –Anne Roiphe
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” –Author unknown
“Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.” ― Robert Brault
“The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” ― Faraaz Kazi
“In order to move on, you must understand why you felt what you did and why you no longer need to feel it.” –Mitch Albom
“I’ve been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I’m moving on.” ― Rascal Flatts
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”–Thich Nhat Hanh
“Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self-worth and faith are measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“1. You must let the pain visit. 2. You must allow it teach you. 3. You must not allow it overstay. (Three routes to healing)”―Ijeoma Umebinyuo
“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.” ― Robyn Schneider
“As my Popo used to say, life is a tapestry we weave day by day with threads of different colors, some heavy and dark, others thin and bright, all the threads having their uses. The stupid things I did are already in the tapestry, indelible, but I’m not going to be weighed down by them till I die. What’s done is done; I have to look ahead.”―Isabel Allende
“But part of surviving is being able to move on.” ― Alexandra Bracken
“The choice isn’t to move on—life moves whether I want it to or not. No, the choice is to look forward, not backward, to take a step because refusing to move won’t draw the past nearer, only postpone better days.”―Caroline George
“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.” ― Oprah Winfrey
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of those depths.” –Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
“Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.” ― Wayne L Misner
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” –Lucius Annaeus Seneca
“Don’t tie your heart to a person that has nothing left to offer you. Let it go. It might hurt for a while, but when you get over it, you’ll see that it’s better.” ― Orebela Gbenga
“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.”―Jodi Picoult
“When you think this pain is all you deserve, you are right. You are the only one that can decide how long you will walk in hell.” ― Shannon L. Alder
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.”–Albert Einstein
“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
“Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.” ―Katerina Stoykova Klemer
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” –Oprah Winfrey
“Rehashing the past wouldn’t change anything. Time to move forward.” ― Zena Wynn
“Life is full of many unpredictable changes… Let go of chaos yesterday; cheerfully live for today, and look forward to tomorrow with greater possibilities… It’s our imperfections that make us perfect in our own unique ways.”―Oprah Winfrey
“Moving on is self-care, which is intelligence.” ― Maxime Lagacé
“The world never moves in the direction you expect. You have often got to acknowledge the direction in which the world is moving” ― Neelam Saxena Chandra

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