Moving On Quotes and Sayings
These Moving-on Quotes depict the most basic principle of life—it keeps going on. Life goes on without concern about what happens in your life or this world.
Everyone should realize the importance of moving on in life; whether it is success or failure, pain or happiness that comes your way – you should keep moving on.
If it’s a bad relationship, it’s time to move on. If you are not finding fun in what you are doing, it’s time to move on.
Changes are hard, but they bring something new and meaningful. Here are some deep and meaningful Moving On Quotes from great men and women to help you realize the importance of moving on.
Quotes about Moving On
1.) Sometimes, you have to take a step back to move forward.
Erika Taylor
2.) A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.
Helen Rowland
3.) Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
Maxwell Maltz
4.) My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.
Maya Angelou
5.) It was time to move on, to dance with life again.
Jacqueline Winspear
Moving Forward Quotes
6.) If you don’t make bold moves, the world doesn’t move forward.
Richard Branson
7.) 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
8.) Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
9.) 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
10.) Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
11.) You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
Conrad Hall
12.) Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.
C. S. Lewis
13.) Stand up and walk. Move forward.
Hiromu Arakawa
14.) The best career advice I’ve gotten is to stay focused and keep moving forward.
Tyga
15.) 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
16.) You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You’re moving forward.
Jimmy Chin
17.) Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
Eddie Vedder
Move On Quotes
18.) Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.
Carrie Underwood
19.) To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.
Dave Pelzer
20.) Stop looking for happiness in the same place you lost it.
Unknown
21.) Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes, and move on.
Les Brown
22.) It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.
Steve Maraboli
23.) It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.
Theodore Roosevelt
24.) If you’re not having fun—I don’t care what you’re doing—don’t do it. Move on. Find something else. Life’s too short.
Jerry Doyle
25.) Life moves on, and so should we.
Spencer Johnson
26.) I believe that life is short, and there is too much time wasted bearing grudges, and I like to move on.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
27.) I really believe in, ‘Move on, live and let live, forgive and forget.’
Kate Winslet
28.) Even a rock moves on.
Anthony Liccione
29.) If you have an idea, you have to move on it to make a gesture. Drawing is an immediate way of articulating that idea – of making a gesture that is both physical and intellectual.
Jeff Koons
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Time to Move On Quotations
30.) You have to decide when it is time to move on.
Wendy Whelan
31.) It’s time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We’ve reached a certain point, but we’re not moving anymore.
Ken Kesey
32.) Healing is a process. Sometimes, it’s quick, and other times, it’s gruelingly long. You’re the only person who knows when it’s time to move on and let go.
Jonathan Sadowski
33.) Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.
Susan Estrich
34.) Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.
Justin Timberlake
35.) What am I supposed to do, sit around and wait for you? Well, I can’t do that, And there’s no turning back. I need time to move on; I need love to feel strong. Cause I’ve got time to think it through, And maybe I’m too good for you.
Cher
36.) What feels like the end is often the beginning.
Unknown
37.) A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.
Darren Johnson
38.) I didn’t want to become a reserve player or a bench player, and it was time to move on and take on another challenge.
Julius Erving
39.) Some relationships aren’t true relationships. And it’s usually when the other person does something really terrible that you realize it. And that’s when it’s time to move on.
Natalie Portman
40.) There is always time to move on.
Jock Stein
41.) Your soul tells you when it’s time to move on.
Oprah Winfrey
Moving On Quotes
42.) You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.
Oprah Winfrey
43.) Moving on is a simple thing; what it leaves behind is hard.
Dave Mustaine
44.) Change can be good, but its always tough to let go of the past
Emily Giffin
45.) You’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.
Tori Amos
46.) All of us make mistakes. The key is to acknowledge them, learn, and move on. The real sin is ignoring mistakes or, worse, seeking to hide them.
Robert Zoellick
47.) Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Albert Einstein
48.) You are allowed to be both a masterpiece and a work in progress, simultaneously.
Sophia Bush
Short Moving On Quotes
49.) Forget the past.
Nelson Mandela
50.) The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.
Steve Maraboli
51.) Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.
Lyndon B. Johnson
52.) Sooner or later, we’ve all got to let go of our past.
Dan Brown
53.) Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.
Robert Brault
54.) Sometimes, the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.
Nicole Sobon
55.) Letting go is also a matter of self-worth.
Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Letting Go and Moving On Quotes
56.) 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
57.) 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
58.) Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it, and then move on.
Bob Newhart
59.) Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day, it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.
Tere Arigo
60.) Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass – It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.
Vivian Greene
61.) We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
62.) All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable, those that are movable, and those that move.
Benjamin Franklin
Inspirational Quotes
63.) It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.
Angelina Jolie
64.) 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
65.) Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die, and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.
Bryant McGill
66.) 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
67.) 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
68.) 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.
Martin Luther King Jr.
69.) Don’t worry. Just when you think your life is over, a new storyline falls from the sky and lands right in your lap.
Rebekah Crane
Moving On In Life Quotes
70.) 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
71.) 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
72.) My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
Maya Angelou
73.) Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
74.) 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
75.) Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.
Donald Miller
Learn and Move On Quotes
76.) Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.
Steve Maraboli
77.) Take all the time you need to heal emotionally. Moving on doesn’t take a day; it takes lots of little steps to be able to break free of your broken self.
Tere Arigo
78.) Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you.
Shannon L. Alder
79.) 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
80.) 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
81.) Letting go is hard but being free is beautiful.
Wilder Poetry
82.) 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
83.) Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Winston Churchill
Pushing Forward
84.) 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 is. You keep going.
Robyn Schneider
85.) The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.
Faraaz Kazi
86.) I’ve been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long; I’m moving on.
Rascal Flatts
87.) In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.
Deepak Chopra
88.) No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.
Alexandra Elle
89.) Sometimes, your only available transportation is a leap of faith.
C.S. Lewis
Positive Moving-On Quotes
90.) When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
91.) 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
92.) 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.
Tony Schwart
93.) Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
94.) The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.
Lalah Delia
95.) Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.
Roy T. Bennett
96.) And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
Khaled Hosseini
Better Days Ahead
97.) Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterward.
Tina Fey
98.) 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.
Tracee Ellis Ross
99.) Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.
Wayne L Misner
100.) Dare to live by letting go.
Tom Althouse
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought over 75 new gift and toy products to market, most of which deal with wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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