If you are looking for a reminder that you need to move on or that you did great when you moved on, amazing quotes are available. These quotes are from movies, famous people, ordinary everyday people, songs, books, etc.
Best Quotes About Moving On
1. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. – Hermann Hesse
2. If you can’t do anything about it, then let it go. Don’t be a prisoner to things you can’t change. — Tony Gaskins
3. Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it. Always work with it, not against it. – Eckhart Tolle
4. Letting go isn’t a one-time thing, it’s something you have to do every day, over and over again. – Dawson’s Creek
5. 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. — Ann Landers
6. It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things. –Theodore Roosevelt
Powerful and Famous Quotes to Know
7. If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one. – Dolly Parton
8. You will need to allow your mind to take it all in so that by the time you get back up on your feet, you know how you feel. —Lauren Conrad
9. Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose. – Lyndon B. Johnson
10. 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
11. Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over. — Nicole Sobon
12. The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go. – Shannon L. Alder
13. Sometimes, your only available transportation is a leap of faith – Margaret Shepard
14. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar. – Raymond Lindquist
15. The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. – Steve Maraboli
16. I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on. – Katie Taylor
17. Looking back isn’t going to help you. Moving forward is the thing you have to do. – McKayla Maroney
18. 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. ― Joyce Rachelle
Quotes About how to move on from Someone
19. If you’re rejected, accept it. If you’re unloved, let go. If they choose someone or something over you, move on. Not everyone you love will stay; not everyone you trust will be loyal – Denzel Washington
20. 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.
21. Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to. – Mandy Hale
22. Pain will leave you when you let go. – Jeremy Aldana
23. 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
24. Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye. ― Beyoncé Knowles
25. I realized that there was no point or sense in chasing after happiness that had perished. ― Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time
26. Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love? – Leo Buscaglia
27. Don’t chase people. Be yourself, do your own thing and work hard. The right people – the ones who really belong in your life – will come to your. And stay. – Will Smith
28. 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
29. Sometimes forever doesn’t happen. And that’s something we all occasionally forget. ― Dominic Riccitello
Relationships Moving on Quotes
30. The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did. ― Faraaz Kazi
31. You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analysing 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 the fuck on. ― Tupac Shakur
32. There’s a difference between wanting to stay and being too afraid to let go. ― Victoria Schwab
33. You get through it. It’s a process that’s not easy, but I get less and less sad about it every day. —Ryan Phillippe
34. I am beginning to feel like the only way to truly get over someone that you cared a lot about is to start a new chapter. —Mindy (The Mindy Project)
35. You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be OK on your own before you’re OK with someone else. You’ve got to value yourself and know that you’re worth everything. And until you value yourself enough and love yourself enough to know that, you can’t really have a healthy relationship. —Jennifer Lopez
36. The truth is, I should be angry, resentful and disillusioned about relationships. But I’m not. Love did not work with that person. But it can work with another. — Eva Longoria
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Moving on Quotes From the Bible
37. Forget what happened in the past, and do not dwell on events from long ago. – Isaiah 43:18
38. Brothers and sisters, I do not consider myself yet to have taken hold of it. But one thing I do: Forgetting what is behind and straining toward what is ahead – Philippians 3:13-14
39. …weeping may stay for the night, but rejoicing comes in the morning. -Psalm 30:5
40. Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things become new. -2 Corinthians 5:17
41. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight. – Proverbs 3:5-6
Moving on Quotes for Him
42. 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.
43. Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future. ― Wayne L Misner
44. Imagine a future where you hold no grudges towards anyone. You’re not angry at past lovers, not bitter about failures, not disappointed in your parents. You forgive, send love, and move on. You’re free. ― Charlotte Eriksson
45. Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on. ― April Mae Monterrosa
Accepting and Moving on Quotes
46. 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
47. The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence. – Roy T. Bennett
48. 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
49. Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. ― Albert Einstein
Life Goes Quotes
50. I’ve lost people who meant the world to me and I’m still doing just fine – Denzel Washington
51. 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
52. 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
53. Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. –Daphne Rose Kingma
54. By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry. –Jack Dempsey
55. 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. — Unknown