Letting Go and Moving on Quotes that Motivate and Inspire

Letting go means releasing the past, and focusing on the present and on the bright future. Letting go means quitting bad habits, which hold you back and prevent you from progressing in life.

Letting go also means freedom from unpleasant memories, putting down your emotional burden and becoming free and happy. It also means emotional detachment.

Moving on means leaving failures and obstacles behind and going forward. Moving on means not getting stuck and dwelling on the past. Moving on frees you from the bandages of the past and opens new doors and opportunities.

Letting go and moving on is the way to happiness and to success. Leave the past behind and move on to a brighter future.

Moving on and letting go requires inner strength, discipline and positive attitude. These are skills worth developing.

Letting Go Quotes and Moving on Quotes

Here is a list of letting go quotes and moving on quotes to help you let go of the past, hurt feelings, unpleasant memories, and anything that disturbs your peace.

“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

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

“You have got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever ‘the old’ means for you.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach

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

“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”
-Andre Gide

“It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
– Steve Maraboli

“Emotional detachment is like a pair of scissors that cuts the ropes that tie your burden to your back.”
– Remez Sasson

“I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.”
— Jeffrey McDaniel

“There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.”
– Jessica Hatchigan

“Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
— Steve Maraboli

“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.”
– Dalai Lama

“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

“Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.”
– Carrie Underwood

“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
– Mary Pickford

“Letting go means stopping to cling to thoughts and emotions that cause pain, frustration and emotional burden.”
– Remez Sasson

“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

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”
– Theodore Roosevelt

“By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
– Jack Dempsey

“Letting go brings a feeling of lightness and freedom, like taking a heavy rock off your shoulders.”
– Remez Sasson

“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”
– Bryant McGill

“Life is life a bicycle. To keep you balance you must keep moving.”
– Albert Einstein

“Without moving on you will get nowhere. Keep letting go of anything the binds you and keep looking straight ahead.”
– Remez Sasson

“Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.”
– Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“I don’t live in the past at all. I’m always wanting to do something new. I make a point of constantly trying to forget and get things out of my mind.”
– Brian Eno

“If you want to fly in the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.”
– Amit Ray

“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.”
– Deepak Chopra

“Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.”
– Daphne Rose Kingma

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”
– J. K. Rowling

“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There is nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t ‘should have’ done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!”
– Steve Maraboli

“Sometimes the door closes on a relationship, not because we failed but because something bigger than us says this no longer fits our life. So, lock the door, shed a tear, turn around and look for the new door that’s opened. It’s a sign that you’re no longer that person you were, it’s time to change into who you are. It’s going to be okay.”
– Lee Goff

“You have got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever ‘the old’ means for you.”
– Sarah Ban Breathnach

“Let go of your attachment to being right, and suddenly your mind is more open. You’re able to benefit from the unique viewpoints of others, without being crippled by your own judgment.”
– Ralph Marston

“The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.”
– Steve Maraboli

Letting and Moving on Open New Doors

Letting go frees you from the past, from attachment to erroneous ideas, negative habits, and from people that do not contribute anything to your life.

Every one meets failure and difficulties, criticism and unkindness. Dwelling on these matters is like throwing the anchor in the middle of gales and high waves.

Letting go and moving on is like lifting the anchor of your ship and sailing toward the sun, the good weather and to new, exciting adventures.

Read often quotes about moving on and about letting go, to get inspired and take action.

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