Change & Transformation: New Beginnings Quotes

New beginnings invite courage, curiosity, and hope within the broader journey of change and transformation. These quotes highlight the moment when endings give way to first steps, new habits, and renewed perspective. Read words that encourage letting go, embracing uncertainty, and trusting growth. From fresh starts to quiet resets, each line offers gentle motivation to start again, rebuild momentum, and welcome possibility with clear intention.

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"Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing"

Arundhati Roy, Novelist

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"Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday"

John Wayne, Actor

"The future starts today, not tomorrow"

Pope John Paul II, Clergyman

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"With the possible exception of the equator, everything begins somewhere"

C. S. Lewis, Author

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"The beginning is always today"

Mary Wollstonecraft, Writer

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"What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn"

Hal Borland, Author

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"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. Yet that will be the beginning"

Louis L'Amour, Author

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

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"When one door of happiness closes, another opens, but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us"

Helen Keller, Author

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"When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open"

Bob Marley, Musician

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"There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in"

Graham Greene, Playwright

"Tomorrow is the day when idlers work, and fools reform, and mortal men lay hold on heaven"

Aulus Persius Flaccus, Poet

"Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting"

Jason Biggs, Actor

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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

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"Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon"

Emily Dickinson, Poet

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"I called the New World into existence, to redress the balance of the Old"

George Canning, Statesman

"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, Poet

"A dead end street is a good place to turn around"

Naomi Judd, Musician

"Modernity exists in the form of a desire to wipe out whatever came earlier, in the hope of reaching at least a point that could be called a true present, a point of origin that marks a new departure"

Paul de Man, Critic

"Your past is not your potential. In any hour you can choose to liberate the future"

Marilyn Ferguson, Writer

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

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"It is not a question of starting. The start has been made. It's a question of what's to be done from now on"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

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"Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life, and every setting sun be to you as its close"

John Ruskin, Writer

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"Obsolescence never meant the end of anything, it's just the beginning"

Marshall McLuhan, Sociologist

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"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows"

Emile M. Cioran, Philosopher

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"Home is where one starts from"

T. S. Eliot, Poet

"The future is always beginning now"

Mark Strand, Poet

"It isn't where you came from, its where you're going that counts"

Ella Fitzgerald, Musician

"Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything"

Willie Dixon, Musician

"A man of courage flees forward, in the midst of new things"

Jacques Maritain, Philosopher

"Oh, we want a new breed of men before India can be cleansed of her disease"

Sarojini Naidu, Politician

"The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living"

Arlo Guthrie, Musician

"It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy"

Jane Fonda, Actress

"The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days"

Voltaire, Writer

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"Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas and progress"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

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"We have it in our power to begin the world over again"

Thomas Paine, Writer

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"The most beautiful stories always start with wreckage"

Jack London, Novelist

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"He has the deed half done who has made a beginning"

Horace, Poet

"I cannot be awake for nothing looks to me as it did before, Or else I am awake for the first time, and all before has been a mean sleep"

Walt Whitman, Poet

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