Top 200 New Beginnings Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes, Courage Quotes, Change Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

2. “You have a great God who loves you and cares about you. Be full of hope that something good can happen to you. God is a master at new beginnings. He loves fresh beginnings, He makes all things new.”

— Joyce Meyer

Also featured in: Recovery Quotes, Happy Sunday Quotes, Faith Quotes, Quotes About Hope

3. “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

4. “No matter how small you start, start something that matters.”

— Brendon Burchard

Also featured in: Startup Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Empowerment Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

5. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”

— Taylor Swift

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Opportunity Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Moving On Quotes

6. “With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.”

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Interesting Quotes, Awakening Quotes

7. “It’s a new dawn It’s a new day It’s a new life for me And I’m feeling good.”

— Leslie Bricusse

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes

8. “Each day is a new opportunity. Yesterday is over and done. Today is the first day of my future.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Fulfillment Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

9. “Dream big, my friend, and never give up. We all make mistakes, but none of us are mistakes. Take one day at a time. Embrace the positive attitudes, perspectives, principles and truths I share, and you, too, will overcome.”

— Nick Vujicic

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Happy Quotes, Dreaming Big Quotes

10. “Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to Great Places! You’re off and away!”

— Dr. Seuss

Also featured in: Fiction Quotes, Graduation Quotes, Carpe Diem Quotes

11. “Tomorrow is a new beginning. Embrace the light of a new day, for you have a fresh chance to begin again, to make life beautiful.”

— Leon Brown

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Cute Quotes, Recovery Quotes

12. “Start now. Start where you are. Start with fear. Start with pain. Start with doubt. Start with hands shaking. Start with voice trembling but start. Start and don’t stop. Start where you are, with what you have. Just... start.”

— Ijeoma Umebinyuo

Also featured in: Intention Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Momentum Quotes

13. “The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change.”

— Maya Angelou

14. “Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.”

— Nhat Hanh

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Serenity Quotes, Mindfulness Quotes, Grateful Quotes

15. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

— Plato

Also featured in: Education Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Work, Philosophy Quotes

16. “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again.”

— Steve Jobs

Also featured in: Short Inspiring Quotes, Positive Work Quotes

17. “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.”

— Peter F. Drucker

Also featured in: Business Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Giving Up Quotes

18. “Every beginning has an end and every end is a new beginning.”

— Santosh Kalwar

Also featured in: Short Quotes, Transformation Quotes, New Month Quotes

19. “Any action is often better than no action, especially if you have been stuck in an unhappy situation for a long time. If it is a mistake, at least you learn something, in which case it’s no longer a mistake. If you remain stuck, you learn nothing.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Short Quotes About Life, Self-Realization Quotes

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

— Nicole Sobon

Also featured in: Reflection Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Moving Quotes

21. “From every ending comes a new beginning.”

— Lurlene McDaniel

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Good Morning Inspirational Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Feel Better Quotes

22. “And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.”

— Paulo Coelho

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Future Quotes, Moving Quotes

23. “And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”

— Rainer Maria Rilke

Also featured in: Short Positive Quotes, Future Quotes, Creative Quotes

24. “Every day is a new opportunity to reach that goal.”

— Rick Ross

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes

25. “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

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Future Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

26. “Just start. Don’t wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.”

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Also featured in: Inspirational Quotes for Work, Work Ethic Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Moving Forward Quotes

27. “Every day begins with an act of courage and hope: getting out of bed.”

— Mason Cooley

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes, Feel Better Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Depression Quotes

28. “Just remember, it all started with a mouse.”

— Walt Disney

Also featured in: Cute Quotes, Positive Short Quotes, Imagination Quotes

29. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.”

— Chauncey Depew

Also featured in: Personal Responsibility Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Moving Quotes

30. “What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.”

— Richard Bach

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Cute Quotes, Clever Quotes

31. “If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips.”

— Steven Furtick

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Transformation Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

32. “It’s only too late if you don’t start now.”

— Barbara Sher

Also featured in: Monday Morning Quotes, Procrastination Quotes, Life Quotes for Women, Friday Morning Quotes

33. “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”

— Louis L'Amour

Also featured in: Not Giving Up Quotes, Different Quotes

34. “I’m excited to start a new chapter in my life.”

— Leighton Meester

Also featured in: Happy Quotes, Moving On Quotes, Future Quotes, Moving Quotes

35. “Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.”

— Benjamin Franklin

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Different Quotes

36. “Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.”

— Laozi

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Preparation Quotes, Path Quotes, Taoism Quotes

37. “But there’s always a first time for everything.”

— Melissa de la Cruz

38. “Baby steps count, as long as you are going forward. You add them all up, and one day you look back and you’ll be surprised at where you might get to.”

— Chris Gardner

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Career Development Quotes, Moving Quotes

39. “Life is a circle. The end of one journey is the beginning of the next.”

— Joseph M. Marshall III

Also featured in: Journey Quotes, Moving Quotes

40. “In every ending there is a new beginning.”

— Deborah Harkness

41. “Don’t be encumbered by history, just go out and do something wonderful.”

— Robert Noyce

Also featured in: Changing the World Quotes, Boldness Quotes, Optimism Quotes

42. “Just begin and the mind grows heated; continue, and the task will be completed!”

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Also featured in: Dedication Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Inspirational Quotes for Students, Consistency Quotes

43. “Every day is a new opportunity.”

— Terry McAuliffe

Also featured in: Good Morning Quotes, Have a Great Day Quotes

44. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

— Meister Eckhart

Also featured in: Lifelong Learning Quotes, Good Morning Quotes, Quotes About Acting

45. “To change the world, Start with one step. However small, the first step is hardest of all.”

— Dave Matthews

Also featured in: Make A Difference Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Firsts Quotes

46. “The Winter Solstice is the time of ending and beginning, a powerful time – a time to contemplate your immortality. A time to forgive, to be forgiven, and to make a fresh start. A time to awaken.”

— Frederick Lenz

Also featured in: Awakening Quotes

47. “You don’t fear change. You fear the unknown. If you knew the future would be great, you’d welcome the change to get there. Well, the future IS great. Proceed.”

— Joe Vitale

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Manifestation Quotes, Optimism Quotes, Vision Quotes

48. “We can always begin again.”

— Jack Kornfield

Also featured in: Transformation Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes, Resilience Quotes, Healing Quotes

49. “Don’t worry about getting it right. Just get it started.”

— Marie Forleo

Also featured in: Cheer Quotes, Goal Setting Quotes, Practice Quotes, Momentum Quotes

50. “Do something about your life now.”

— Les Brown

Also featured in: Impact Quotes, Accountability Quotes, Personal Responsibility Quotes