New beginnings can be thrilling, inspiring, and many times, scary. If you’re starting new in life, a relationship, job or location, view these new beginning quotes to celebrate your fresh start & find comfort in the change.
New Beginning Quotes
“All glory comes from daring to begin.” – Eugene Fitch Ware
“Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.” – Lauren DeStefano
“Never forget, Today, you have 100% of your life left.” – Tom Hopkins
“I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” – Jeffrey McDaniel
“Whatever you do or dream you can do – begin it. Boldness has genius and power and magic in it.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“No one is ever a victim of life; we are all volunteering to grow.” – Shannon L. Alder
“Never feel guilty for starting again.” – Rupi Kaur
“Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another.” – John Dewey
“A new canvas can always make me feel good inside.― Billy” – Dean Gonzalez
“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” – J. B. Priestly
“If there are no endings, there are no beginnings and you see no new lands, so for everything that’s lost, there is usually something gained.” – Merle Shain
“Let’s forget the baggage of the past and make a new beginning.” – Shahbaz Sharif
“Right now you are one choice away from a new beginning.” – Oprah Winfrey
“For great things do not done just happen by impulse but are a succession of small things linked together.” – Vincent Van Gogh
“The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind.” – Kiran Desai
“May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill.” – Ronald Reagan
“New beginnings always start in the here-and-now.” – Richelle E. Goodrich
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey
“I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.” – Juansen Dizon
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.” – Thomas Edison
“We look at the coming of a new beginning like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting. Hopeful.” – Darnell Lamont Walker
“One can begin so many things with a new person – even begin to be a better man.” – George Eliot
“Though nobody can go back and make a new beginning… Anyone can start over and make a new ending.” – Francisco Cândido Xavier
“Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.” – Oprah Winfrey
“Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets.Begin again.” – Cora Coralina
“Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
“Life is a progress, and not a station.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Have enough courage to start and enough heart to finish.” – Jessica S. Yourko
“Instead of saying, I’m damaged, I’m broken, I have trust issues, say I’m healing, I’m rediscovering myself, I’m starting over.” – Horacio Jones
“Every morning is a chance at a new day.” – Marjorie Pay Hinckle
“You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” – Mandy Hale
“New beginnings. They bring with them all sorts of expectations, emotions, and challenges. Myself, I have always cherished those times; if we allow them to, they can be opportunities for the future.” – Chaker Khazaal
“When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home.” – Rumi
“It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home.” – Aaron Lauritsen
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow.” – Maya Angelou
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman
“The hardest part is starting. Once you get that out of the way, you’ll find the rest of the journey much easier.” – Simon Sinek
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato
“Starting over can be challenging, but also it can be a great opportunity to do things differently.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Dr. Steve Maraboli
“The man who goes alone can start today, but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau
“You wanna fly, you got to give up the sh*t that weighs you down.” – Toni Morrison
“When someone you love dies, you are given the gift of second chances. Their eulogy is a reminder that the living can turn their lives around at any point. You’re not bound by the past; that is who you used to be.” – Shannon L. Alder
“There comes a day when you realize turning the page is the best feeling in the world, because you realize there is so much more to the book than the page you were stuck on.” – Zayn Malik
“Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.” – Carl Friedrich Gauss
“He knows he will be born again, and start fresh anew.” – Dejan Stojanovic
“All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.” – Mae West
“Spring is proof that there is beauty in new beginnings.” – Matshona Dhliwayo
“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” – Alan Cohen
“Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
“Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.” – Martin Luther King Jr.
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
“Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.” – Dejan Stojanovic
“And there’s always a way to begin with.” – Autumn Doughton
“Morning will come, it has no choice.” – Marty Rubin
“Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” – Marsha Petrie Sue
“Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” – Kristin Kreuk
“Have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow know what you truly want to become.” – Steve Jobs
“You start whenever you decide to start.” – Elizabeth Gilbert
“Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today.” – Dwight Howard
“There is always an opportunity to start again and again, if the old ways are not working last year, look for better ways of doing it in the new year and start again afresh.” – Bamigboye Olurotimi
“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Your present circ*mstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein
“You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.” – C.S. Lewis
“The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
“Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness.” – Billy Chapata
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
“That last page turned is a perfect excuse to write a whole new book.” – Toni Sorenson
“The greatest of all capabilities of a human being is to become born again.” – J.R. Rim
“Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.” – William Throsby Bridges
“To greet a lovely morning, we must leave the night behind.” – Tarang Sinha
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.” – Alyson Noel
“No brooding over old worries. Let’s start a new series. Forget about all the negatives. Think of new possibilities.” – Shon Mehta
“Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” – Deborah Reber
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
“If you wish to be happy right from the beginning of your day, then it is about time to leave behind your past.” – Lorin Hopper
“The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen
“Every end in history necessarily contains a new beginning.” – Hannah Arendt
“The revolts themselves open up something very new. One has to be aware, or listen, or open one’s mind to what are the new beginnings.” – Nigel Gibson
“Making the beginning is one third of the work.” – Irish Proverb