Top 50 Moving On Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It wont 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

2. “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.”

— Robert Tew

3. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Letting Go Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

4. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”

— Alexander Graham Bell

5. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes

6. “Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Running Quotes

7. “It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.”

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Stoic Philosophy Quotes

8. “If you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were.”

— Richard Bach

Also featured in: Love Quotes

9. “To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.”

— Dave Pelzer

Also featured in: Mistake Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

10. “People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Graduation Quotes

11. “You live, you learn, and you upgrade.”

— Anonymous

12. “Here’s to the future, because I’m done with the past.”

— Anonymous

13. “You can only lose what you cling to.”

— Buddha

Also featured in: Moving Quotes

14. “Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.”

— Ann Landers

Also featured in: Forgiveness Quotes

15. “Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.”

— Walter Anderson

Also featured in: Gratitude Quotes, Pain Quotes, Character Quotes

16. “People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what's bitter and move on.”

— Bill Cosby

Also featured in: Forgiveness Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

17. “Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that’s more productive.”

— Donald Trump

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

18. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.”

— Victor Kiam

19. “Holding on to anything is like holding on to your breath. You will suffocate. The only way to get anything in the physical universe is by letting go of it. Let go and it will be yours forever.”

— Deepak Chopra

20. “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

21. “This, too, will pass.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— C. S. Lewis

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

— Albert Einstein

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes, Persistence Quotes

24. “Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Forgiveness Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

25. “The only thing harder than letting go is moving on.”

— Anonymous

26. “Don’t let yesterday use up too much of today.”

— Will Rogers

Also featured in: Success Quotes

27. “Forget the past.”

— Nelson Mandela

Also featured in: Past Quotes

28. “Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?”

— Leo Buscaglia

Also featured in: Pain Quotes, Letting Go Quotes

29. “Even a rock moves on.”

— Anthony Liccione

30. “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

Also featured in: Moving Forward Quotes

31. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward, toward finding the answer.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

32. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”

— Hermann Hesse

Also featured in: Life Quotes

33. “Today will never happen again. Don’t waste it with a false start or no start at all.”

— Og Mandino

34. “Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.”

— Kate Winslet

35. “A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.”

— Anthony Liccione

36. “You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Spirituality Quotes

37. “Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.”

— Soren Kierkegaard

38. “You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”

— Jodi Picoult

Also featured in: Past Quotes

39. “Goals give you more than a reason to get up in the morning; they are an incentive to keep you going all day.”

— Harvey MacKay

Also featured in: Goal Quotes

40. “Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard.”

— Dave Mustaine

Also featured in: Letting Go Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

41. “Success seems to be connected with action. Successful men keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don’t quit.”

— Conrad Hilton

42. “Get mad, then get over it.”

— Colin Powell

Also featured in: Wise Quotes

43. “Change has to come for life to struggle forward.”

— Helen Hollick

44. “Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.”

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

45. “Cry me a river, build a bridge, and get over it.”

— Justin Timberlake

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

— Nicole Sobon

47. “If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.”

— Khalil Gibran

Also featured in: Marriage Quotes

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

— Alan Watts

49. “You can love someone so much... But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.”

— John Green

Also featured in: Real Quotes

50. “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Depression Quotes, Letting Go Quotes, Goodbye Quotes