New Beginnings Quotes for Starting Over
New beginnings quotes for starting over after a setback, changing direction, or starting a new job, home, or school year. A few Bible verses close the page.
Quotes about starting over after a setback
One mistake doesn’t decide the rest of your life.
Marilla, isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.
A new job, a move, or a new school
Even a change you wanted can feel strange at first.
Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, Healthy, free, the world before me, The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
Every artist was first an amateur.
I don’t know what lies around the bend, but I’m going to believe that the best does.
Life is a series of surprises.
Quotes about change and growth
Things do not change; we change.
I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
As long as you live, keep learning how to live.
A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to day than he was yesterday.
Quotes about moving on from the past
Moving on doesn’t mean the past didn’t matter.
Act,—act in the living Present!
What benefit is there in reviewing past sufferings, and in being unhappy, just because once you were unhappy?
The point is, not how long you live, but how nobly you live.
A few Bible verses for a new beginning
From the King James Version. Paul’s “new creature” refers to life in Christ.
Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.
Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.
To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Questions
What is a good quote about new beginnings?
Anne Shirley’s line about the bend in the road suits an uncertain new chapter. Thoreau’s castles in the air suit rebuilding a plan.
What are some quotes about starting over after failure?
Roosevelt says it is worse never to have tried than to fail. Thoreau says to keep the dream and put foundations under it.
What is the difference between moving on and forgetting?
Moving on means making room for the present. You can still keep the memories and what you learned.
Which Bible verses speak about new beginnings?
Isaiah 43:19 (“I will do a new thing”), 2 Corinthians 5:17 (a new creature in Christ), and Ecclesiastes 3:1 (a season for everything). For verses on hope and strength, see quotes and Bible verses.
Some quotes come from Wikiquote, used under CC BY-SA 4.0, and link to their source pages. Translations are by Richard M. Gummere, and are in the public domain. Bible verses are from the King James Version, which is in the public domain.