“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.”
Helen Keller
CharacterHard Times
Moving On Quotes
158 FAMOUS QUOTES · MOVING ON
Moving On Quotes
Read 200 of the best moving on quotes about letting go, forgiveness and starting over, from Chanakya, the Bhagavad Gita and Shakespeare to Maya Angelou, Viktor Frankl and Robert Frost.
“Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it.”
Helen Keller
HopeResilience
“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
Robert Frost
LifeShort Quotes
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
C.S. Lewis
HopeFuture
“In the midst of winter, I found there was, within me, an invincible summer.”
Albert Camus
Inner StrengthHope
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Viktor Frankl
ChangeGrowth
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms, to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.”
Viktor Frankl
AttitudeFreedom
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths.”
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
HealingBeauty
“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”
Winston Churchill
EndingsBeginnings
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
CourageFear
“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
New BeginningsAcceptance
“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 (The Serenity Prayer)
AcceptanceCourage
“Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
FreedomHappiness
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
Thich Nhat Hanh
SufferingFear
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
Oprah Winfrey
Present MomentCalm
“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
Ann Landers
StrengthLetting Go
“Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.”
Charles R. Swindoll
AttitudeChoice
“You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.”
Steve Jobs
TrustFuture
“If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.”
Paulo Coelho
GoodbyesNew Beginnings
“To err is human, to forgive divine.”
Alexander Pope
ForgivenessShort Quotes
“And be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving one another, even as God for Christ's sake hath forgiven you.”
The Bible (Ephesians 4:32)
ForgivenessKindness
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
ForgivenessLove
“To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you.”
Lewis B. Smedes
ForgivenessFreedom
“Without forgiveness, there's no future.”
Desmond Tutu
ForgivenessFuture
“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”
Corrie ten Boom
ForgivenessWillpower