72 Moving on quotes to overcome the past.

Sometimes, your only available transportation is a leap of faith.”

Margaret Shepard

Soak this metaphor in. If you normally have joy or motivation to propel you forward, when you’re faced with something tough to let go, then a leap of faith might be the only option to keep moving.

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

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

Helen Keller

If there weren’t risks in life, there would be no growth and no reward.

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

The pain of letting go will be eclipsed by the relief of moving on.”

Scott Stabile

Letting go and moving on quotes sometimes shift the focus from how hard the “letting go” is to how invigorating the relief is when you do.

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

Moving on can come in many different forms.

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

If it doesn't agree with your spirit, let it go.”

Germany Kent

In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving o and learning from it.”

James Nesbitt

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you'll need to let go of the past that drags you down.”

Amit Ray

It's still easier said than done, but try to visualize this metaphor to help shift your focus toward the future.

The most liberating moment is the moment you finally let go.”

Ava Harrison

For me, becoming isn't about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn't end.”

Michelle Obama

Moving on isn’t always about forgetting. Sometimes, an experience forms a part of us forever. It’s how we accept the experience and learn from it that helps us move on.

There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”

C. S. Lewis

Short is often best to share moving on quotes with friends. They’re easy to use in an Instagram story, or even on banners to celebrate a new beginning.

It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.”

Ernie Harwell

Every time something ends, something else begins. This quote helps us shift our focus to the new.

There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.”

Nelson Mandela

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

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”

Lyndon B. Johnson

You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”

Jan Glidewell

Use letting go and moving on quotes to keep yourself accountable. Don’t miss out on the present by clutching to a past that no longer exists.

Sometimes, we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.”

Mimi Novic

You can't walk away without also walking towards.”

Rachel Hartman

Many moving on quotes help us realize that, even as we struggle to move forward, the present is here whether we’re ready to see it or not — and the future is constantly trickling in.

It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

Theodore Roosevelt

Moving on is not easy. Energy, effort, and courage are all required. Don’t be daunted when it’s hard.

Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.”

Daphne Rose Kingma

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

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.”

Seneca

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

Sometimes, forever doesn’t happen. And that’s something we all occasionally forget.”

Dominic Riccitello

You really don’t have to burn any bridges to let go; you don’t have to destroy anything. You can just decide to cross over and move on.”

Marta Mrotek

Not every ending has to be dramatic. Say “no” to drama, because it will take more energy to move on from.

Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, and what you have no desire to waste your time on.”

April Mae Monterrosa

Not all time is created equal when it comes to romantic relationships. Anyone who wants a family has added incentive to move on sooner.

You don't have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”

Jojo Moyes, After You

Girls, you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.”

Tori Amos, Northern Land

Moving on quotes for her can be remixed to work as moving on quotes for him, too. Though, the original context of this quote is extra fun for women who know the song.

Sometimes, moving forward changes what's behind you.”

Kami Garcia

Everyone knows that the further you progress, the less the past will hurt. The way you see the past changes with time, too, often in amazing ways.

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

Kiss away the past as you head towards the future.”

Imania Margria

Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.”

Nicole Sobon, Program 13

Moving on divorce quotes sometimes approach the tough topics like learning how to date again, or “start over.”

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,

Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul: 101 Stories of Life, Love and Learning

Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.”

Paulo Coelho

Thanking someone who caused grief and pain might not come naturally, but if that person cleared a path for you to live your best life, then that changes how you look at the hurt.

You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing 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 on.”

Tupac Shakur

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

Your free time and image of yourself can be shaped by a single friendship. When both are shaken after that friendship ends, it takes courage to move on.

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

Quotes about moving on from the past offer a choice: you can keep looking back, or you can look forward.

The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”

Lalah Delia

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

Moving on from friendship sometimes means moving on from a whole group of friends, which makes any progress feel isolating. This quote could help you if you use it on a poster or in an inspirational collage.

You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with.”

Nikki Rowe

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.”

Lao Tzu

Ask yourself: what do you need from friendship? Once you move on from friendships that don’t provide what you need, you’ll clear the way for the ones that do.

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

It makes no sense to try to extend a friendship that was only meant to be a season into a lifetime.”

Mandy Hale,

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down.”

Oprah Winfrey

Discovering a fair-weather friend makes moving on easier. Real friendship is a resource during hard times, not a casualty of them.

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, Salomé: In Every Inch In Every Mile

Quotes about friendship and moving on have their place in sincere letters or cards to former friends, too.

The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.”

Faraaz Kazi

Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”

Arthur Ashe

Because moving on is hard, give yourself credit for any progress, even if it seems small.

Letting go is hard, but being free is beautiful.”

Wilder Poetry

Moving on is easy. It's staying moved on that's trickier.”

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

Never forget that moving on is a process. Don’t gaslight yourself into thinking that you haven’t moved on if old feelings come back on occasion.

What matters most is how well you walk through the fire.”

Charles Bukowski

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

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.

Even if you drag yourself forward with small wins, you keep moving.

Moving on is not forgetting. Moving on is being able to remember without feeling awful about it.”

Sam Madison

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”

Steve Maraboli

This metaphor could be represented beautifully on a card or poster.

She's not going to let go until she sees for herself that there's nothing left to hold on to.”

Susane Colasanti, Take Me There

When you have trouble moving on, it can feel like someone turned the lights on when you finally realize that you’re holding onto something that doesn’t exist anymore.

She knew that this day, this feeling, couldn't last forever. Everything passed; that was partly why it was so beautiful.”

Lauren Oliver, Panic

It's the reality of beginnings, ends, gains, and loss that make the things we care about more precious.

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

She took a step and didn't want to take any more, but she did.”

Markus Zusak , The Book Thief

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”

Robert Frost

This quote about moving on could be great on a card. The last words, “it moves on,” could be revealed on the card interior.

One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.”

Mandy Hale,

The Single Woman: Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass

The more disruptive the end of something, the more we’re forced to reassess what we want, who we are, and where we want to go after it’s done.

We are all failures — at least the best of us are.”

J.M. Barrie

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

Albert Einstein

You can't move things by not moving.”

Suzy Kassem

If you want to change anything about your life, you have to change yourself.

Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterward.”

Tina Fey

Almost everything will work again if you unplug it for a few minutes, including yourself.”

Anne Lamott

This catchy quote about moving on is perfect to share in an Instagram story.

Fear tricks us into living a boring life.”

Donald Miller

“I demolish my bridges behind me...then there is no choice but to move forward.”

Fridtjof Nansen

That’s certainly one way to forcefully move on.

Life moves on and so should we.”

Spencer Johnson , Who Moved My Cheese?

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.”

Rita Rudner

Just keep swimming.”

Dori (Ellen Degeneres), Finding Nemo

Think of the fun images or artwork that could go with this quote.