Change & Transformation: Moving On Quotes

Explore a curated selection of quotes about moving on, highlighting acceptance, resilience, and the courage to take the next step. These words reflect the shift from holding on to choosing growth, offering gentle reminders that change can open space for clarity and renewal. Whether you seek closure after setbacks or inspiration for new beginnings, these perspectives encourage letting go with self-compassion, setting healthy boundaries, and focusing on what lies ahead. Find succinct motivation to navigate transitions and build momentum with purpose.

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"People say it gets better, but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all"

Maggie Smith, Actress

Maggie Smith

"Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us"

Voltaire, Writer

Voltaire

"If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends"

Enoch Powell, Politician

"In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on"

Robert Frost, Poet

Robert Frost

"The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it"

Lisa Bonet, Actress

Lisa Bonet

"I chose and my world was shaken. So what? The choice may have been mistaken; the choosing was not. You have to move on"

Stephen Sondheim, Composer

Stephen Sondheim

"That, though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight, though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower, we will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind"

William Wordsworth, Poet

William Wordsworth

"Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on"

Robert Redford, Actor

Robert Redford

"You can't look back; you have to keep looking forward"

Lucy Liu, Actress

"Moving on is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard"

Dave Mustaine, Musician

"All love is vanquished by a succeeding love"

Ovid, Poet

Ovid

"A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things"

Matt Groening, Cartoonist

Matt Groening

"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 any more"

Ken Kesey, Author

Ken Kesey

"In fact you've got your hands tied behind your back when somebody chooses to take a low road in to you, there is nothing you can do about it, and so you just live with it and move on"

Robert Redford, Actor

Robert Redford

"I got along without you before I met you, and I'll get along without you a long time after you're gone"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"Never a tear bedims the eye that time and patience will not dry"

Bret Harte, Author

"I don't like looking back. I'm always constantly looking forward. I'm not the one to sort of sit and cry over spilled milk. I'm too busy looking for the next cow"

Gordon Ramsay, Chef

Gordon Ramsay

"Right after the tragedy, President Bush asked Americans to get on with their lives and we did"

Jane D. Hull, Politician

Jane D. Hull

"And so um, I knew that I really didn't want to be a priest and didn't want to be a celibate, though I could probably manage it. Um, and um, ultimately I left"

Thomas Keneally, Novelist

"What's happened has happened, so what can we do to make it better for tomorrow and the day after? That's why we're here"

Ian Botham, Athlete

"I don't have the fire in the belly right now. It's one of those been there, done that deals"

Steve Largent, Athlete

"When we parted, I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group"

Syd Barrett, Musician

"I've been here before and will come again, but I'm not going this trip through"

Bob Marley, Musician

Bob Marley

"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves"

Blaise Pascal, Philosopher

Blaise Pascal

"To look back is to relax one's vigil"

Bette Davis, Actress

Bette Davis

"The myths have always condemned those who "looked back." Condemned them, whatever the paradise may have been which they were leaving. Hence this shadow over each departure from your decision"

Dag Hammarskjold, Diplomat

Dag Hammarskjold

"The heart forgets its sorrow and ache"

James Russell Lowell, Poet

James Russell Lowell

"I have spent the past several years working so hard to just move on, and to try and build a life for myself"

Monica Lewinsky, Celebrity

Monica Lewinsky

"Yes, I had to learn how to live life outside, but I had so many people help me"

Willie Mays, Athlete

Willie Mays

"If you want a baby, have a new one. Don't baby the old one"

Jessamyn West, Author

Jessamyn West

"I just don't want to live like I used to. And at some point, I'm going to put a gag order on myself in terms of talking about the past. I've got to slam the door and deal with the present and the future"

Charlie Sheen, Actor

Charlie Sheen

"But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings"

Robert Peel, Leader

"Well, I like way downtown near the Battery. I lived down there at this time and for, I guess, the following. Well, this is where I moved to uptown, and I've been here for four years, and this is 1965"

Robert Rauschenberg, Artist

Robert Rauschenberg

"I needed to move, but I haven't had the time to find a place to go"

Elisabeth Rohm, Actress

Elisabeth Rohm

"I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future"

Lou Reed, Musician

"I been a long time leaving but I'm going to be a long time gone"

Willie Nelson, Musician

"I've had so many experiences in cycling, but in some ways I have nothing left to prove. I have achieved more than I could have dreamed of, I've raced a lot longer than I thought I would. I know I can still be better, but I just don't know if I love it enough any more"

Clara Hughes, Athlete

"TV happens. And once it's happened, it's gone. When it's gone, you move on, no tears, no tantrums, no videotape"

Mary Schmich, Journalist

"Laughter gives us distance. It allows us to step back from an event, deal with it and then move on"

Bob Newhart, Comedian

"Jeff knew full well what he was walking away from. Again, he needed to deal with this right away"

Kenneth Lay, Businessman

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