Best Moving On Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“I can't go on. I'll go on.”

“Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.”

“Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off.”

“The moving finger writes, and having written moves on. Nor all thy piety nor all thy wit, can cancel half a line of it.”

“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”

“If you've got to my age, you've probably had your heart broken many times. So it's not that difficult to unpack a bit of grief from some little corner of your heart and cry over it.”

“Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.”

“Don't brood. Get on with living and loving. You don't have forever.”

“We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there's always something beautiful that you can find.”

“Who can't relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?”

“The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.”

“Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.”

“The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.”

“What surrounds us we endure better for giving it a name - and moving on.”

“Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.”

“The Marines was a fresh start - that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.”

“When you start using senses you've neglected, your reward is to see the world with completely fresh eyes.”

“Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.”

“Only the broken-hearted know the truth about love.”

“O! many a shaft, at random sent, Finds mark the archer little meant! And many a word, at random spoken, May soothe or wound a heart that's broken!”

“Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.”

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

“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.”

“If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.”

“It's time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I'd much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.”

“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.”

“We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.”

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

“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.”

“Recovery begins from the darkest moment.”

“Love is like the measles; we all have to go through it.”

“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.”

“There's always something to suggest that you'll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving.”

“It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.”

“Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can't let our circumstances or what others do or don't do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless.”

“It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.”

“I think faith is incredibly important because you will become overwhelmed with what's happening and you will have waves of grief, but when you turn to your faith, I believe God will give you waves of grace to get through it.”

“A man never knows how to say goodbye; a woman never knows when to say it.”

“Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.”

“I think a spiritual journey is not so much a journey of discovery. It's a journey of recovery. It's a journey of uncovering your own inner nature. It's already there.”

“Forget the past.”

“I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.”

“It takes bravery to end a relationship.”

“Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.”

“I mean, don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?”

“Being divorced is like being hit by a Mack truck. If you live through it, you start looking very carefully to the right and to the left.”

“Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.”

“I must be careful not to get trapped in the past. That's why I tend to forget my songs.”

“What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.”

“I kind of came to the conclusion after I did finally get married that love and relationships are just a series of horrific losses with hopefully one win.”

“I know people who grow old and bitter. I want to keep making a fresh start. I don't want them to defeat me. That would be suicidal.”

“Everyone can relate to love, hurt, pain, learning how to forgive, needing to get over, needing the power of God in their life.”

“I think you have to know how you feel when you're sad and it's healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.”

“I will be really happy once I have done my jail time. I can start fresh.”

“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.”

“I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.”

“I've been heartbroken. I've broken hearts. That's part of life, and its part of figuring out who you are so you can find the right partner.”

“The Real is ever-present, like the screen on which the cinematographic pictures move. While the picture appears on it, the screen remains invisible. Stop the picture, and the screen will become clear. All thoughts and events are merely pictures moving on the screen of Pure Consciousness, which alone is real.”

“This is a profession for me, but I started off as a self-publisher working on my own schedule and my own stuff before moving on to graphic novels with First Second Books, where there was definitely a schedule, but it was very different from monthly comics.”

“I can tell you one thing, Iran is closer to developing nuclear weapons today than it was a week ago, or a month ago or a year ago. It's just moving on with its efforts.”

“I like to edit my sentences as I write them. I rearrange a sentence many times before moving on to the next one. For me, that editing process feels like a form of play, like a puzzle that needs solving, and it's one of the most satisfying parts of writing.”

“The music that I've made in the past has had strong contemporary country roots, but I think moving on in music, I will branch out from that a bit.”

“In the world of opinion writing, there's something called the 'to be sure' paragraph. A sort of rhetorical antibiotic, it seeks to defend against critics by injecting a tiny bit of counter-argument before moving on with the main point.”

“There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.”

“Obviously it's hard to lose a coach; that's not fun for anybody because you care about him and you have a relationship with him. But as players, we just have to keep moving on.”

“In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it's just a case of moving on and learning from it.”

“The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.”

“Time takes away the grief of men.”

“I've always believed that if you don't stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.”

“Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.”

“One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.”

“My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.”

“I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'”

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

“Getting over someone is a grieving process. You mourn the loss of the relationship, and that's only expedited by 'Out of sight, out of mind.' But when you walk outside and see them on a billboard or on TV or on the cover of a magazine, it reopens the wound. It's a high-class problem, but it's real.”

“I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.”

“Joy comes, grief goes, we know not how.”

“Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.”

“Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.”

“A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I'm sure that's true, but they aren't willing to make healing a high priority. They aren't willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it.”

“I'm pretty horrible at relationships and haven't been in many long-term ones. Leaving and moving on - returning to a familiar sense of self-reliance and autonomy - is what I know; that feeling is as comfortable and comforting as it might be for a different kind of person to stay.”

“Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.”

“I can still love an ex as a person, regardless if the breakup was bad. I would never wish anything negative on them. It takes more energy to hate them than to wish them well.”

“Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.”

“If it comes as a constant surprise each and every time something unexpected occurs, you're not only going to be miserable whenever you attempt something big, you're going to have a much harder time accepting it and moving on to attempts two, three, and four.”

“Someone once told me I'm a sore winner, and they're right. I rarely take more than a moment to enjoy a success before I'm moving on and looking for the next challenge.”

“I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.”

“We are also fortunate in being in quite a sheltered environment, in terms of people moving on to do other things, because there are relatively few companies in Scotland that are looking for the skill set that we've developed.”

“If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.”

“I can see that if this was an album done 10 or 15 years ago we could see we were moving on to some place else.”

“My father spent his entire early career as an illustrator for comic books: EC Comics like 'Tales from the Crypt' and 'Creepshow,' then moving on to such magazines as 'Mad' and 'Weird Science.'”

“Some games you going to play great. Some games you're not. So, it's all about moving on to the next game, next possession. Just come in there every day working, figuring out what you got to work on and see what you did wrong in either in the last game or the last season or whatever.”

“After doing 'Firefly' and moving on, I always wanted to be part of a series again. I love doing films, too, but there's just something special about being part of the team and feeling like you're actually a part of the family, and I always look to re-create that.”

“My father believed in moving on with time; he always said that the show must go on, come what may. That is exactly what we did when it came to RK Studios.”

“Many movies about people recovering, moving on, and redeeming themselves are really wonderful and inspiring. But I think the more sentimental ones that are less good make me feel isolated - like, if you can't pull yourself up by your bootstraps like the guys in the movies, there is something wrong with you. That's a shame.”

“Kubrick's vision seemed to be that humans are doomed, whereas Clarke's is that humans are moving on to a better stage of evolution.”

“I'm moving on in years, but I tell you I still want to kick the devil before I kick the bucket.”

“It is very clear that voice communications is moving on to the Internet. In the end, the price that anyone can provide for voice transmission on the Net will trend toward zero.”

“Most visitors to Iceland tend to spend just a few hours in Reykjavik before moving on to the geological wonders beyond. I think they are missing out.”

“I think that the main thing that you can learn from watching 'The Spectacular Now' is just learning about growing up and moving on.”