Whether you or someone you love are facing a fresh start in life, it is important to stay motivated and understand that you are moving towards a greater future for yourself. From starting a new job to studying your first year at university, every fresh start is an achievement that is worth recognising. Here are 50 quotes to help you focus on what you are working towards, because by taking that first step, you head into a new beginning filled with memories that are yet to come.
Famous quotes about facing new beginnings
- “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” Buddha.
- “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” J.P. Morgan.
- “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.
- “Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.” Mimi Novic.
- “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” Alan Cohen.
- “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” Oprah Winfrey.
- “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” Guy Finley.
- “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.
- “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” Henry Ford.
- “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” Martin Luther King Jr.
- “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” Plato.
- "Be willing to be a beginner every single morning." Meister Eckhart.
- "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.
- "It always seems impossible until it is done" Nelson Mandela.
- “What the caterpillar calls the end, the rest of the world calls a butterfly." Lao Tzu.
- "Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda.
- "Oh yes, the past can hurt. But you can either run from it, or learn from it.” Rafiki.
- “Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” Ralph Blum.
- “I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey – a journey that requires a plan.” Vivian Jokotade.
- "Just be who you are, and everything falls into place.” Cooper.
- “The beginning is always today.” Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley.
- “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” Kristin Kreuk.
- "Don't waste it with a false start of no start at all. You were not born to fail." Og Mandino
- "Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction." Germany Kent.
- “All we can do is our best. And sometimes the best that we can do... is to start over.” Hayley Atwell.
- "Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” Carl Bard
- “The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.” Aaron Lauritsen.
- “The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” Socrates.
- “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” Lao Tzu.
- “The very things that hold you down are going to lift you up.” Dumbo.
- "New beginnings are available to all of us over fifty times a year; they are called Mondays." Byron Pulsifer.
- "Everything is possible, even the impossible.” Mary Poppins.
- "See, life is a journey and every chapter is very interesting." Zeenat Aman.
- "Morning will come, it has no choice." Marty Rubin
- “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.” Winston Churchill.
- “A beginning is a very delicate time.” Virginia Madsen.
- "I am the captain of my boat, so I steadily sail and hope not to fail.” Dizzee Rascal.
- “A Sunrise is God’s way of saying, 'Let’s start again'.” Todd Stocker.
- "Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” Richie Norton.
- “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” Billie Jean King.
- “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” Ferris.
- “The future begins today.” Wayne Gerard Trotman.
- “History is dependent on the new generation to write a new chapter." LaMelo Ball.
- “Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” John Dewey.
- "All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them." Walt Disney.
- “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” Herman Hesse.
- “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” Jim Rohn.
- “Let’s forget the baggage of the past and make a new beginning.” Shahbaz Sharif.
- “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” Robin. Sharma.
- “Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.” Prince.
