Moving on is a courageous and transformative process that allows us to release the past, heal our hearts, and embrace the possibilities of the future. It is a journey of self-discovery, growth, and resilience. In this article, we explore the empowering path of moving on and present a collection of inspiring quotes that offer solace, encouragement, and guidance as we navigate life’s transitions.
Moving on does not mean forgetting or erasing the past; it means acknowledging our experiences, finding strength in them, and choosing to create a better tomorrow. It requires letting go of what no longer serves us, forgiving ourselves and others, and opening our hearts to new beginnings. It is a testament to our resilience and our belief in the power of healing and personal growth.
Moving On Quotes: Empowering Steps Towards a Brighter Future
Throughout history, writers, philosophers, and individuals who have walked the path of moving on have shared their insights and wisdom. Their words resonate with the universal experiences of heartbreak, loss, and the courage it takes to move forward. Below, we present a collection of moving on quotes that inspire strength, resilience, and a renewed sense of hope.
Time takes away the grief of men.
Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Part of the healing process is sharing with other people who care.
I started life washing cars in Canada before moving on to selling life insurance and vacuum cleaners. Later, I went through a programme by Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, which literally changed my life. It was the turning point.
I actually think sadness and darkness can be very beautiful and healing.
Not fighting, avoiding talking to fans… that’s when the thoughts creep in about retiring and moving on to something else.
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.
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will gaily flash past.
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.
So I won an Oscar. It’s amazing. I’ve got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That’s it, moving on.
I love to fight, and I’m looking forward to being back in the ring, getting the victory, and moving on to challenge for the World Heavyweight title.
Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love.
Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass.
It’s weird that I’m putting my old green and gold jersey, and I’m moving on to the cardinal and white. I’m a Stanford Cardinal.
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.
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.
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.
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.
With more than 67 percent of the Nation’s freight moving on highways, economists believe that our ability to compete internationally is tied to the quality of our infrastructure.
I can’t go on. I’ll go on.
Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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.
You need to have a short-term memory. That’s a big thing that I learned a lot. Moving on from games, even good games that I have. Move on from them and be prepared for the next night.
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.
If I want to pad the record, just fight pretenders, get a quick paycheck and keep moving on and racking up wins, that’s not something I want to be known for.
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.
Part of growing up is just taking what you learn from that and moving on and not taking it to heart.
Well I certainly have learned and I hope I’m moving on and certainly two years of prison was a terrible punishment.
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.
Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.
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.
I have made many decisions that I probably shouldn’t have made, but life is about making mistakes, learning and moving on.
Late August still feels like summer here in the Ozarks, but it is the time of year the nighthawks are moving on to their South American wintering grounds.
Part of the game is moving on. And you do.
Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
Patience is key for getting over a breakup. That, and trailing off your interaction after the breakup.
I’ve always believed that if you don’t stay moving, they will throw dirt on you.
Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.
There will always be excuses, arguments, and questions of timing when moving on difficult and controversial issues.
Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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?’
Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.
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.
Who can’t relate to the idea of leaving one chapter behind and moving on to the next?
I started running to different albums, and I was starting with the short albums and moving on to the longer albums. I was interested in how they built up, in tempo and intensity. it made me interested in albums again, too.
Many of us are experiencing a phase of change, shedding outdated patterns and liberating ourselves from the old by moving on to the new. The year 2012 is an important one for mankind, a pivotal year. The potential for this exists in the mere fact that the majority of us are yearning for change.
The problem is that when we speak of plan Bs, we already negate the possibility of moving on with plan A.
The themes in ‘Violet’ are universal: accepting yourself with all of your flaws, moving on, and the forgiveness and freedom that comes along with that.
Forget the past.
I could be shooting myself in the foot, but in some ways, I feel I’ve said all I’ve needed to say when to comes to, say, the ‘X-Men.’ I think I’ve hit the bright points, I think I’ve hit what I wanted to hit, and I can be happy moving on doing other things.
We are healed from suffering only by experiencing it to the full.
I tell you the past is a bucket of ashes, so live not in your yesterdays, no just for tomorrow, but in the here and now. Keep moving and forget the post mortems; and remember, no one can get the jump on the future.
But you know, if you live an affluent lifestyle, there are all types of trappings that are there that you have to be cognizant of, and you’ve got to try and communicate freely and gain understanding about and then keep moving on, because you know, sometimes lifestyles are chosen for us as opposed to us choosing them.
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 like taking a character at the most intense moments of their lives and exploring all that in full and then moving on.
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.
Transformation in the world happens when people are healed and start investing in other people.
My life is about ups and downs, great joys and great losses.
In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on.
We all, to some degree, wish we could have some element of our childhood back again while, for kids, moving on is something they’re worried about. They know it’s going to happen at some point.
I did psychotherapy for about six years. I stopped going regularly when I’d finished ‘Elemental,’ which I think probably says something. I think I’m moving on.
Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.
I remember when ‘I’m Moving On’ came out, and we got the response we did, I thought, ‘Man, this could be for real.’ That was the first time it dawned on me what we had.
The day a character becomes predictable is the day a writer should think about moving on – because the reader certainly will.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
Moving on is not closure. It’s not neat, and it’s not about turning the page. It is about moving on, but it doesn’t mean that you’ve left something behind.
If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were.
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.
Anything I wrote before the age of 17 is probably worth putting a pin in and moving on.
In the theater, it’s about taking time in a musical segment, a pause in a musical way and then moving on.
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.
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.
I can’t imagine life without Vogue at this point. People say, what’s changed? What’s different But it’s just part of growing up, meeting your soulmate and moving on with life.
I tried to go to Kosovo to establish a statue to commemorate those who died during the wars, and to discuss moving on, so we could move into a new era. But I was banned from there.
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
Much of your pain is the bitter potion by which the physician within you heals your sick self.
I studied dance at a high school arts magnet program before moving on to Miami’s New World School of the Arts, and from there, I went on to study at The Juilliard School.
Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.
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.
Grief is never something you get over. You don’t wake up one morning and say, ‘I’ve conquered that; now I’m moving on.’ It’s something that walks beside you every day. And if you can learn how to manage it and honour the person that you miss, you can take something that is incredibly sad and have some form of positivity.
You just keep moving forward and doing what you do and hope that it resonates with people. And if it doesn’t, you just keep moving on until you find a project that does.
Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.
I think fashion is actually very good training for being in the tech world, because it’s all about moving on to the next thing, looking for the next thing, not getting stuck in the past.
Love one another and help others to rise to the higher levels, simply by pouring out love. Love is infectious and the greatest healing energy.
I’m moving on in years, but I tell you I still want to kick the devil before I kick the bucket.
I’m not against technology, but all tools should be used to their best advantage. We should be spending our time on things that have staying power, instead of on the latest thought of the latest blogger – and then moving on quickly to the next blogger.
At school, I was always the new boy, so I always went in for the school play. It was a way of breaking the ice and making friends with pupils and teachers for however long I had before moving on.
I think you have to know how you feel when you’re sad and it’s healthy to mourn if a relationship ends.
As far as friendships go, things change even without the fame. People start moving on. I have a few friends that are married and are starting to have kids and I’m like, ‘Oh my goodness gracious – that’s so insane.’ I also have friends who are just doing their own thing, which is cool.
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself.
By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.
I started my career at the Wall Street Journal, before moving on to CNBC and NBC.
Who made me laugh when I was growing was Chaplin and the Marx Brothers, and then moving on, there were so many that I was a writer for for many years: I was a writer for the Smothers Brothers, Lily Tomlin, then I started on ‘Saturday Night Live’ as the head writer the first year we started it.
The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.
I unknowingly accepted impermissible benefits from my summer landlord. I look forward to moving on from this incident and to supporting my alma mater for many years to come.
So long as the memory of certain beloved friends lives in my heart, I shall say that life is good.
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 think that the main thing that you can learn from watching ‘The Spectacular Now’ is just learning about growing up and moving on.
I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart. ‘Wanna Say’ is one of the few love songs I’ve ever done.
The Marines was a fresh start – that is why they shave your head. I wish they would let you change your name.
In my life, I have made the occasional catastrophic choice, and it’s just a case of moving on and learning from it.
I mean, don’t forget the earth’s about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?
I don’t think God said we should all be soft. My job is to compete, and the best prevails. I will continue to play, and that’s the way I’m succeeding in my life. If I hit you by mistake, all I can say is ‘I’m sorry,’ and I keep moving on.
All kids of all races need to understand, not just about black history but their own history. It’s something that will help you in the future, just in terms of moving on in life, understanding the things your ancestors had to go through.
When I look back and think about how I played when I was 16, and moving on to my 20s, 30s, 40s and now 50s – to me, it seems like you gain more experience, you gain more technique, you get better.
I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears.
By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry.
The only reason I wanted ‘Making Toast’ as the title is that it is a simple gesture of moving on. Every morning there’s the bread and you make the toast and you start the day.
I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.
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!
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.
This business is ephemeral, and you have to maintain a healthy cynicism about it. There’s a ‘flavour of the month’ aspect to it, so you have to keep moving on and mutating.
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.
Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.
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.
I respect traditions, you can’t walk all over them, but at the same time our world is changing. Life is about moving on.
I’m moving on. I should have made that clear when I made the announcement. I guess I wasn’t clear. If people think you’re leaving a show after all these years, you might be retiring. So I understand where they’re coming from, but I should have impressed the fact that I hope I’m just moving on right now.
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.
In conclusion, moving on is a transformative journey that empowers us to reclaim our lives, embrace new opportunities, and create a future filled with joy and fulfillment. As we navigate the complexities of letting go, may these moving on quotes serve as guiding lights, reminding us of our strength, resilience, and capacity for growth. Let us release the weight of the past and step forward with courage, knowing that the best is yet to come.
