Read through this curated list of quotes about new beginnings, to help find the language to get you started.

How do I start a new beginning?

New beginnings and fresh starts are always scary. Most times, we’ve never done what we are currently trying to do.

Change is normal but can be inherently challenging.

If your mind is telling you it’s time to start fresh, you might need to listen to the voice.

The fear is normal.

Here are some inspirational quotes about new beginnings to give you the language of strength and courage to adjust to a new chapter in your life.

Quotes about new beginnings and starting fresh

1. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” —Seneca

2. “No one can ever take your memories from you – each day is a new beginning, make good memories every day.” –Catherine Pulsifer
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3. “Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.

4. “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” ~ Carl Bard

5. “It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

6. “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting.” –Buddha

7. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu

8. “No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun! Look, it is the first page! And it is a beautiful one!” — C. JoyBell C.

9. “Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford

10. “No river can return to its source, yet all rivers must have a beginning.” – American Indian Proverb

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Quotes about new beginnings and change.

11. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” —Guy Finley

12. “I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey – a journey that requires a plan.” – Vivian Jokotade

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13. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse

14. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato

15. “Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.” ~ Muriel Rukeyser

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16. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart

17. “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” — Barbara Shur

18. “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour

19. “Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing.” — Mandy Hale

20. “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” — Jim Rohn

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Quotes about new beginnings to inspire and teach

21. “Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” – Catherine Pulsifer

22. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” —T.S. Eliot

23. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” — Oprah Winfrey

24. “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” —Jeffrey McDaniel

25. “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” –Steve Jobs

26. “Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” –Anne Sullivan

27. “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that counts.” — Winston Churchill

28. “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

29. “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” – Dale Turner

30. “Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” –Ralph Blum

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New beginnings quotes to help you erase the past

31. “Let’s forget the baggage of the past and make a new beginning.” – Shahbaz Sharif

32. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” – Desmond Tutu

33. “Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.” – Catherine Pulsifer

34. “Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.” – Joel Osteen

35. “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” – Buddha

36. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King

37. “Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

38. “Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.” –Sarah Ban Breathnach

39. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” — Robin Sharma

40. “Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” – Marsha Petrie Sue

Inspirational quotes about new beginnings

41. “Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.” – Prince
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42. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – J.P. Morgan

43. “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” – Alan Cohen

44. “Let us make each day our birthday – every morning life is new, with the splendors of the sunrise, and the baptism of the dew.” – S.A.R
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45. “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” – Daphne Rose Kingma

46. “One can begin so many things with a new person – even begin to be a better man.” – George Eliot

47. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” — Nido Qubein

48. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”—George Bernard Shaw

49. “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” — Kristin Kreuk

50. “Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new.” – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

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Quotes about new beginnings to broaden your thoughts

51. “Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.” – William Throsby Bridges

52. “Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.” ― Mandy Hale

53. “Rather than turning the page, it’s much easier to just throw the book away.” ― Anthony Liccione

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54. “Perhaps that is where our choice lies — in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.” ― Elana K. Arnold

55. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ― Germany Kent

56. “It turned out that sometimes it’s enough to start doing things differently now.” ― Laini Taylor

57. “Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us” ― Mimi Novic

58. “We look at the coming of a new beginning like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting. Hopeful.” ― Darnell Lamont Walker

59. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.”
― Josiyah Martin

60. “To greet a lovely morning, we must leave the night behind.” ― Tarang Sinha

Quotes about new beginnings to make you better

61. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”― L.M. Montgomery

62. “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.”― Richie Norton

63. “As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.”― Criss Jami, Killosophy

64. “The direction you choose to face determines whether you’re standing at the end or the beginning of a road.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

65. “The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”― Aaron Lauritsen

66. “Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.” – Dejan Stojanovic

67. “Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways.”― Rachel Joyce

68. “The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.”― J.R. Rim

69. “He knows he will be born again, and start fresh anew.”― Dejan Stojanovic

70. “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” —Joseph Campbell

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Inspirational quotes about new beginnings

71. “The beginning is always today.”― Mary Shelley
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72. “You’ve got a chance to start out all over again. A new place, new people, new sights. A clean slate. See, you can be anything you want with a fresh start.”― Annie Proulx

73. “Right at the end of the road, a new way will be revealed.” ― Hiral Nagda

74. “We want a fresh start only because we didn’t sufficiently care for the last fresh start.”― Craig D. Lounsbrough

75. “I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.”― Juansen Dizon

76. “The future begins today.”― Wayne Gerard Trotman

77. “I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.”― Oprah Winfrey

78. “Never restart a journey and use the same road that failed you before.” ― Dennis E. Adonis

79. “There is always an opportunity to start again and again, if the old ways are not working last year, look for better ways of doing it in the new year and start again afresh.”― Bamigboye Olurotimi

80. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” —Lao Tzu

New beginning quotes to help you start afresh

81. “The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

82. “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” – C. S. Lewis

83. “A Sunrise is God’s way of saying, “Let’s start again.” – Todd Stocker

84. “Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets.Begin again.” – Cora Coralina

85. “I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” – J. B. Priestly

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86. “If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable.” – Richelle E. Goodrich

87. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton

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88. “Sometimes the best thing we can ask for is change, and a fresh start forces us to confront change head-on.” — Natalya Neidhart

89. “Never forget, Today, you have 100% of your life left.” – Tom Hopkins

90. “Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left.” – Hubert Humphrey

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New beginnings quotes to enlighten you

91. “True mastery of a skill was only the beginning step to understanding it.” – Yoda

92. “Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” – John Dewey

93. “When you reach the end of what you should know, you will be at the beginning of what you should sense.” – Kahlil Gibran

94. “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

95. “Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn; that there is no end in nature, but every end is a beginning, and under every deep a lower deep opens.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

96. “If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house.” – Mandy Hale

97. “The fear of failure is a common motivation killer. People don’t try something new because they fear they will fail at it.” – Cary Bergeron

98. “There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction.” – Franz Kafka (see more Franz Kafka quotes)

99. “If you wish to be happy right from the beginning of your day, then it is about time to leave behind your past.” – Lorin Hopper

100. “It’s humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf & tell it to be quiet.” – Jennifer Ritchie Payette

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101. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” ― Steve Maraboli

102. “Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.” – Unknown

103. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” – Paulo Coehlo

104. “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

105. “Everything begins at the beginning, and quite often the beginning begins when you shift your mind in a new direction.” – Louie Herron

106. “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

107. “If you want to fly in the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.” – Amit Ray

108. “Trust yourself. Create the kind of self that you will be happy to live with all your life. Make the most of yourself by fanning the tiny, inner sparks of possibility into flames of achievement.” — Golda Meir

109. “The splendid thing about falling apart silently…is that you can start over as many times as you like.” – Sanober Khan

110. “The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you’ll find the rest of the journey much easier.”— Simon Sinek

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Insightful quotes about new beginnings

111. “It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.”― Aaron Lauritsen

112. ‘”But plants grow again,” She murmured, focusing on the verdant beauty around her. “They put down new roots, create room for themselves in foreign soil.”’ ― Nalini Singh, Archangel’s Consort

113. “Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now.”― Germany Kent

114. ‘That morning he feels fresh-scrubbed and cleansed, as if he is being given yet another opportunity to live his life correctly.’― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life

115. “Everybody has a geography that can be used for change that is why we travel to far off places. Whether we know it or not we need to renew ourselves in territories that are fresh and wild. We need to come home through the body of alien lands.”― Joan Halifax

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116. ‘When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.’― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

117. “A fresh approach is needed — an analysis of our human situation from a basis that recognises and confronts the psychological dimension to our behaviour.” ― Jeremy Griffith

118. “The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.”― Kiran Desai

119. “But here’s the thing: The something new, it isn’t necessarily bad. In fact, in some ways, maybe it’s better.”― Nick Lake

120. “Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.”― Lauren DeStefano

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New beginnings quotes to inspire and teach

121. “A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.” – Bruce Springsteen

122. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

123. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

124. “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” – Rumi

125. “Starting over can be challenging, but also it can be a great opportunity to do things differently.” – Catherine Pulsifer

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126. “Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.”- St. Francis of Assisi

127. “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

128. “Sometimes painful endings bring the best new beginnings.”- Shae Ross

129. “Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.”
— Steve Maraboli

130. “To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.”- Jack Kornfield

Quotes about new beginnings and moving forward

131. “Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

132. “Failure lies not in falling down. Failure lies in not getting up.” – Chinese Proverb

133. “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker

134. “The sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light.”– S. Ajna

135. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

136. “Making a big life change can be scary but living with regret is always scarier.” – Unknown

137. “Never feel guilty for starting again.” – Rupi Kaur

138. “There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.” – Zayn Malik

139. “The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney

140. “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” — Mandy Hale

Quotes about new beginnings and progressing

141. “Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica S. Yourko

142. “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.”― Philip Pullman

143. “You don’t have to be great to start, but you do have to start to be great.” – Zig Ziglar

144. “Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone. Appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next.” – Unknown

145. “The scariest moment is always just before you start.” – Stephen King

146. “Everybody falls sometimes, when that happens you need to find the strength to rise from the ashes.”- Unknown

147. “It is impossible to live without failing at something unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.” – J. K. Rowling

148. “With every roadblock, a detour is built. With every ending, a new beginning is defined. Embracing a challenge makes life interesting, but overcoming it makes life meaningful.” – Matthew E. Fryer

149. “What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

150. “Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” – Dan Brown

New beginnings quotes for a new chapter

151. “There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.”― John Steinbeck

152. “We have plenty of tomorrows to compensate for the wrongs made yesterday.”― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

153. “And there’s always a way to begin with.”― Autumn Doughton

154. “New beginnings. They bring with them all sorts of expectations, emotions, and challenges. Myself, I have always cherished those times; if we allow them to, they can be opportunities for the future.”― Chaker Khazaal

155. “From the end spring new beginnings.”― Pliny the Elder

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156. “New beginnings always start in the here-and-now.”― Richelle E. Goodrich

157. “The darkest hours bring the most light.”― Dominic Riccitello

158. “It is not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.”― Clarissa Pinkola Estés

159. “Sunrise and sunset are beautiful moments but you can’t hold them. Let things move. There will be more sunrises and sunsets.”― Shunya

160. “Destinations are endpoints. Journeys are learnings, paths of possibilities, blossoming… fresh beginnings.”― Rasheed Ogunlaru

Inspiring quotes about new beginnings

161. “Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”― Germany Kent
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162. “A new canvas can always make me feel good inside.”― Billy-Dean Gonzalez

163. “Forget everything you’ve done. Start over.”― Marty Rubin

164. “A new beginning is a blank canvas ready and thirsty for paint. For many though, fear and worry come along with it.”― Chaker Khazaal

165. “There is always a new beginning…Doors are unlimited, always open, if one closes and that moment the other opens..”― Vandana Agarwal

166. “If something great is going to happen in your tomorrow there are certain thing’s that need to end today.”― Sope Agbelusi

167. “Where life comes to an end, more should begin.”― A.D. Aliwat

168. “A new dawn always breaks after darkness, but only those who have survived the night live to see it.”― Tristan Roulot

169. “You start whenever you decide to start.”― Elizabeth Gilbert

170. “The thrill of new beginnings is immensely alluring!”― Avijeet Das

New beginning quotes for starting afresh in life

171. “I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” —Maya Angelou

172. “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” —Deepak Chopra

173. “Whatever wrong turns you’ve taken in life you can always start over and find your way back to happiness.” ―Marty Rubin

174. “Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.” —Steve Jobs

175. “No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow.” ―Shannon L. Alder

176. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.” —Tony Robbins

177. “Life is a progress, and not a station.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

178. “A bird sitting in a tree is never afraid of the branch breaking, because it’s trust is not in the branch, but in its wings.” – Unknown

179. “The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

180. “Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

New beginnings quotes to start anew

181. “A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy.”- Dr. Steve Maraboli

182. “Don’t live the exact same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Unknown

183. “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

184. “Don’t worry if you committed a mistake. Some of the most beautiful things we have in life come from our mistakes.”– Surgeo Bell

185. “Every second brings a fresh beginning, every hour holds a new promise, every night our dreams can bring hope and every day is what you choose to make it.” – Unknown

186. “Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.”– Matshona Dhliwayo

187. “Tough times don’t last. Tough people do.”- Robert H. Schuller

188. “Instead of saying, “I’m damaged, I’m broken, I have trust issues”, say “I’m healing, I’m rediscovering myself, I’m starting over.”– Horacio Jones

189. “Let your first success be just a beginning. Let your dreams chase you.” – Amit Ahlawat

190. “No brooding over old worries, let’s start a new series. Forget about all the negatives, think of new possibilities.”– Shon Mehta

Quotes about new beginnings to inspire you on your journey

191. “The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.” – Malcolm Gladwell

192. “Everybody falls sometimes, gotta find the strength to rise from the ashes and make a new beginning.” – Unknown

193. “I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.” – A.G.

194. “Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.” ― Dwight Howard

195. “You may delay, but time will not.” – Benjamin Franklin

196. “New beginnings bring new possibilities. A chance to this time get it right.” — Lynn M. McHale

197. “Every moment is a new beginning.” – Elie Wiesel

198. “Every morning is a chance at a new day.” — Marjorie Pay Hinckle

199. “You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.” ― Charlotte Eriksson

200. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” — Carrie Underwood

Quotes about new beginnings to inspire a fresh start

201. “Life is not measured by the number of breaths you take but by the moments that take your breath away.” – Maya Angelou

202. “Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it’s everything in between that makes it all worth living.” – Bob Marley

203. “And now we welcome the new year. Full of things that have never been.” — Rainer Maria Rilke

204. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

205. “You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis

206. “The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

207. “When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.” – Rumi

208. “You have to get lost before you can be found.” – Jeff Rasley

209. “Big things have small beginnings.” – Prometheus

210. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

More quotes about new beginnings

211. “Morning will come, it has no choice.”― Marty Rubin

212. “We can choose to start with a clean slate in the here and now.”― Kaleb Kilton

213. “It is the dawn of a new day, and it is raining…dance in the rain, and forget your sorrows.”― Michael Bassey Johnson, ‘Song Of A Nature Lover’

214. “Every morning a new sun greets us and our new life begins.”― Marty Rubin

215. “Every day is a new beginning, because you can’t turn the clock back.”—Mel Gibson

216. “You may not be able to control what happens in life but you can control how you respond to it.”– Lisa Marie Husby

217. “You raze the old to raise the new.”― Justina Chen Headley, ‘North Of Beautiful’

218. “You got to be starting something too high to get over.”– Michael Jackson, ‘Wanna Be Starting Something’

219. “Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.”― Carl Friedrich Gauss

220. “Once you understand the keys of success it’s not the end, it’s only the beginning.”– Walter Bond, Dr. Jessica Houston, Marcus Taylor

New beginning quotes to help you start a new path

221. “I see marriage as a new beginning in my life.” — Akhil Akkineni

222. “There is no point dwelling on the past because each day is a new beginning.” — Chunky Pandey

223. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.” — Sigmund Freud

224. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi

225. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” — Gail Sheehy

226. “There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” —C.S. Lewis

227. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” — Dan Millman

228. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” — Alan Watts

229. “Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.” — Billy Chapata

230. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.” — J.K. Rowling

Quotes about new beginnings and starting a new journey in life

231. “Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” – Thomas Edison

232. “Change is hard at the beginning, messy in the middle, worth it at the end.” – Unknown

233. “Making the beginning is one third of the work.” – Irish Proverb

234. “Sometimes you have to accept the fact that some people only enter your life as temporary happiness.” – Unknown

235. “Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close.” – John Ruskin

236. “Today is the first day of a brand new journey.” – Unknown

237. “Every day is a new beginning. Stay away from what might have been and look at what can be.” – Unknown

238. “I am learning to trust the journey even when I do not understand it.” – Mila Bron

239. “And suddenly you know…It’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” – Unknown

240. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli

New Beginnings quotes to help you progress forward in life

241. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” ― Taylor Swift

242. “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.” ― Mae West

243. “One of the best times for figuring out who you are & what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.” ― Mandy Hale

244. “A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.” ― Aberjhani

245. “But there’s a beginning in an end, you know? It’s true that you can’t reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.” ― Alexandra Bracken

246. “When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of “second chances”. Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can turn their lives around at any point. You’re not bound by the past; that is who you used to be.” — Shannon L. Alder

247. “Your future doesn’t have to travel the same path with the same people. You can start over. You don’t have to apologize to people that won’t listen. You don’t have to justify your feelings or actions, during a difficult time in your life.” — Shannon L. Alder

248. “The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.”― Arnold Bennett

249. “[T]hat old September feeling, left over from school days, of summer passing, vacation nearly done, obligations gathering, books and football in the air… Another fall, another turned page: there was something of jubilee in that annual autumnal beginning, as if last year’s mistakes had been wiped clean by summer.” ― Wallace Stegner 

250. “Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don’t know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don’t know.” ― Pema Chödrön

New beginning quotes on why an ending is necessary

251. “‎Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” – Francisco Cândido Xavier

252. “In that book which is my memory, On the first page of the chapter that is the day when I first met you, Appear the words, ‘Here begins a new life’.” – Dante Alighieri

253. “Every sunrise gives you a new beginning and a new ending. Let this morning be a new beginning to a better relationship and a new ending to the bad memories. Its an opportunity to enjoy life, breathe freely, think and love.” – Norton Juster

254, “Every exit is an entrance to someplace else.” – Patti LaBelle

255. “All endings are also beginnings. We just don’t know it at the time.” – Mitch Albom

256. “Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make your peace with that and all will be well.” – Jack Kornfield

257. “The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.” – Rebecca West

258. “it is always easier to see the beginning from the end, than the end from the beginning.” – Julia McNair Wright

259. “If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that’s lost, there is usually something gained.” – Merle Shain

260. “It isn’t given to us to see ends. We can only attend to the beginnings and make them right.” – Eleanor Porter

How did you find these new beginnings quotes?

Sometimes life requires us to start over and rebuild from scratch. In order, to create the life you want, you have to be willing to let go of what isn’t working or what’s holding you back.

But because you do not know what’s written in your next chapter of life, the idea of starting afresh can be intimidating. Hopefully, these new beginnings quotes have given you the courage to start over and reboot your life for the better.

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