Top 200 Moving On Quotes (2025 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

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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

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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

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

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Short Positive Quotes, Positive Life Quotes

6. “Nothing will work unless you do.”

— Maya Angelou

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Work Ethic Quotes

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

— Epictetus

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Life Lessons Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Philosophical 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

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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: Self-Esteem Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes, Mistake 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: Positive Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Care Quotes, Emotional Quotes

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

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Lifelong Learning Quotes, Growth Quotes

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

— Anonymous

Also featured in: Perspective Quotes, Future Quotes, Life Is Short Quotes

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: Character Quotes, Gratitude Quotes, Pain Quotes

16. “Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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

— C. S. Lewis

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Change Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes

18. “When people walk away from you, let them go. Your destiny is never tied to anyone who leaves you, and it doesn’t mean they are bad people. It just means that their part in your story is over.”

— T.D. Jakes

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19. “As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison.”

— Nelson Mandela

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20. “Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.”

— Fred Rogers

Also featured in: Growth Quotes

21. “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

Also featured in: Acceptance Quotes, Peace Quotes, Healing Quotes, Forgiveness Quotes

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

— Robert Frost

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Perseverance Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life, Perspective Quotes

23. “Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.”

— J.K. Rowling

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24. “It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.”

— William Shakespeare

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25. “Life is too short for long-term grudges.”

— Elon Musk

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26. “Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”

— Mother Teresa

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Action Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

27. “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom to know the difference.”

— Reinhold Niebuhr

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Christian Motivational Quotes, Acceptance Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

28. “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Life Quotes, Wisdom Quotes, Recovery Quotes

29. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Also featured in: Happiness Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

30. “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

31. “As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.”

— Rumi

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32. “You can't avoid pain, but you can choose to overcome it.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Short Inspiring Quotes, Motivational Quotes About Life

33. “And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. 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

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Resilience Quotes, Challenges Quotes

34. “Don’t look back – you’re not going that way.”

— Mary Engelbreit

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Sweet Quotes, Growth Quotes, Future Quotes

35. “Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Famous Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Smart Quotes

36. “Set your goal and keep moving forward.”

— Georges St-Pierre

Also featured in: Motivational Workout Quotes, Ambition Quotes, Encouraging Quotes, Sports Quotes

37. “All is well. Everything is working out for my highest good. Out of this situation only good will come. I am safe!”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Positivity Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

38. “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

39. “We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

— Joseph Campbell

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Change Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Short Inspiring Quotes, Inspirational Life Quotes

40. “I choose to make the rest of my life the best of my life.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Esteem Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Feel Good Quotes, Encouragement Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

41. “If you fell down yesterday, stand up today.”

— H. G. Wells

Also featured in: Failure Quotes, Positive Life Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Adversity Quotes

42. “You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment. Fools stand on their island of opportunities and look toward another land. There is no other land; there is no other life but this.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Empowering Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

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

— Victor Kiam

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44. “When life knocks you down you have two choices – stay down or get up.”

— Tom Krause

Also featured in: Courage Quotes, Persistence Quotes, Failure Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Emotion Quotes

45. “Giving up doesn’t always mean you’re weak. Sometimes you’re just strong enough to let go.”

— Taylor Swift

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46. “To hold, you must first open your hand. Let go.”

— Lao Tzu

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Life Lessons Quotes, Wednesday Motivational Quotes

47. “It’s not where you start but where you finish that counts.”

— Zig Ziglar

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Powerful Motivational Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Winning Quotes

48. “Where there’s hope, there’s life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.”

— Anne Frank

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49. “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

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50. “It’s never too late – never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”

— Jane Fonda

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