Top 260 Let Go Quotes

If I just simply let go, and allow my hand, my arm, to be more of a support system, suddenly – I have more dynamic with less effort. Much more, and I just feel, at last, one with the stick, and one with the drum.

You have to be open-minded, and you have to be critical, and you have to let go of your predispositions about what you’ve been told that doesn’t have foundations in evidence.

I had to learn to forgive. I couldn’t sleep at night. I got ulcers. I had to let go, to let God deal with it. No one wants to be mad in their own house. I didn’t want to be angry my whole life. It takes so much energy out of you to be mean.

Most people are rowing against the current of life. Instead of turning the boat around, all they need to do is let go of the oars.

It’s difficult sometimes to, in effect, let go of how you’re used to doing things and give the brand room to be reinvented.

My fans are lunatics. I encourage mosh pits, I encourage lunacy, I make music to let go to.

Have you ever struggled to find work or love, only to find them after you have given up? This is the paradox of letting go. Let go, in order to achieve. Letting go is God’s law.

I try to focus on the stuff that I can control and let go of the other stuff.

My dad talks about the times when we’d play backyard cricket: If I got bowled out, I’d just refuse to let go of the bat and swing it at anyone who tried to take it away from me. I like to think that’s been tempered a bit over the years.

But when culture becomes a baggage, things don’t work. What is good about anything that feels like a baggage? I think we should let go when it feels like a burden. Hold on to the things you love. Then it will be a natural process.

The hardest thing for an artist to do is to let go. I don’t wanna be the dude – if you come to my house, there are no pictures circa ’86 in my house.

Just going out and seeing friends, not being cooped up in my house because I don’t want to get my picture taken or anything like that – I’ve tried to let go of that stuff a bit, accept that it’s going to happen to me, and not let it prevent me from doing anything I want to do, which I have in the past.

Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for silence. A time to let go and allow people to hurl themselves into their own destiny. And a time to prepare to pick up the pieces when it’s all over.

The Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.

I used to not even be able to order pizza on the phone because I was just so shy. I think that’s why so much comes out on-screen: because that’s my time to let go in a safe place. When you’re doing that, it’s all written down on paper, and it’s total fiction.

But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

I have a very good, close circle of friends, I keep it positive. Obviously there is the negative stuff, but you’ve got to let go of it. You can’t get bogged down in the details of anything, otherwise you’d drive yourself mad.

I think there’s an ongoing effort involved in trying to get a bigger perspective, trying to let go of things that limit your capacity to love and be loved or your capacity to hear and to really speak.

I got let go at City, but I always believed I could play at the top level.

It is evident that the grip of ‘The Return of the King’ on Mr. Jackson is not unlike the grasp the One Ring exerts over Frodo: it’s tough for him to let go, which is why the picture feels as if it has an excess of endings. But he can be forgiven. Why not allow him one last extra bow?

It’s very difficult for an entrepreneur to let go. It’s very hard to sell a successful business. People sometimes hold on until the business has no value at all.

When you get close to the raw materials and taste them at the moment they let go of the soil, you learn to respect them.

I’ve had friendships and relationships in the past where things weren’t working out for either of us, but I still found it really hard to let go.

I’m always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I’ve struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

My roots allow me to let go of the fear of failure.

When it’s time to let go, I don’t look back, and I start another project as soon as possible. One thing I remind myself is that I don’t want to Photoshop my past.

It’s tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.

It’s good to let go of control. That’s probably something all artists and song writers will say at some point.

I felt the pressure to let go of music. I was like, ‘It’s just a hobby. It’s just a dream I’m hanging on to, and my kids don’t deserve having me have trouble taking care of them.’

How do I let go of Maplewood? It’s like Shangri-la. It’s so culturally diverse, and all my children are adopted – a transracial family. And we’re not the freaks. Everybody flies their freak flag high in Maplewood!

I was trying to be 27 at age 47, but God had to get rid of my vanity. I had trouble letting go of the old Lex physically. My human fleshly nature didn’t want to let go of what had come to be billed as ‘The Total Package.’ I guess God had to help me get rid of the last remnant of that vanity and pride.

Honestly, and seriously, I know I have to do a Telugu film. It was my grandmother’s dream to see me in a Telugu film before she died. I couldn’t fulfil her dream before she passed away, but I don’t want to let go of it, either.

We all have to let go of the Prince Charming complex and realize he doesn’t necessarily exist in the package we assume he’ll come in.

I was just talking about women, just in terms of understanding them as much as we can ever understand the opposite sex. I’m trying to let go of certain male approaches to things that you inherit, that you grow up with.

You have to sacrifice sometimes. There are so many things in life you might want to do, but you have to know when to let go.

I’m not into revenge anymore, I just let go and let God.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you’re able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

I started realizing that music is the one area where I’ve always let go. When that saxophone goes into my mouth, I get into a space where I never think about the notes I’ve already played or anticipate the notes ahead.

Most managers are just trying to survive. That’s why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.

Sometimes you just have to let go of the old and trust that something better is going to take its place, even if it’s scary to face change and the unknown.

I had to teach myself to let go of the conventional rock way of playing guitar and singing. Some things you wouldn’t expect to work, did and some things won’t ever work.

I think life is so much about enjoying and not punishing yourself or restricting yourself too much. The more I let go of all my rules, the more free and happy I am, and nothing happens. So I just enjoy.

I try to let go of the intellect and just tell the story. I only read the page I have in front of me on the screen. Then when the whole story is told, I print it, wait a week and read it.

If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.

What I learned in my career is to know how to take care of my body and treat it with respect. I will never forget that and never let go of that.

I think it’s always been especially hard for black people to let go of musicians who do heinous things because music is such an integral part of our existence.

If I had not been dyslexic, I wouldn’t have needed sports. I would have been like every other kid. Instead, I found my one thing, and I was never going to let go of it. That little dyslexic kid is always in the back of your head.

The craft of officiating is taught that people come and pay top dollar to see people like Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, LeBron James, all the stars, and you have to make sure when you blow the whistle against those individuals that it’s a foul that you basically can’t let go.

All my life, I have loved balloons – all balloons – the heavy English sort, immense and round, that have to be pushed about, and the gay, light, gas-filled French ones that soar into the air the moment you let go of them.

When I’m in love with a woman, seeing her in something cozy makes me not want to let go of her when I’m holding her.

‘She Wolf,’ by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.