New Beginnings Sayings and Quotes

Starting over is intimidating, but can be achieved one step at a time, one day at a time. Embrace the uncertainty of trying something different. New beginnings are an adventure waiting to be had. Let the wise and inspiring new beginnings quotes below provide motivation for a fresh start.

What is not started today is never finished tomorrow. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year's Day. Edith Lovejoy Pierce
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities. William Throsby Bridges
Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new. Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing. Walt Disney
Starting over can be challenging, but also it can be a great opportunity to do things differently. Catherine Pulsifer
The beginning is always today. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
You will never win if you never begin. Helen Rowland
What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from. T.S. Eliot
Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be. Marsha Petrie Sue
The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want. Ben Stein
If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello. Paulo Coelho
With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts. Eleanor Roosevelt
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do. Liz Smith
The past alone is truly real; the present is but a painful, struggling birth into the immutable being of what is no longer. Bertrand Russell
In all beginnings dwells a magic force / For guarding us and helping us to live / Serenely let us move to distant places / And let no sentiments of home detain us. Hermann Hesse
Look: the constant marigold / Springs again from hidden roots./ Baffled gardener, you behold / New beginnings and new shoots / Spring again from hidden roots./ Pull or stab or cut or burn / They will ever yet return. Robert Graves
In all beginnings dwells a magic force / For guarding us and helping us to live / Serenely let us move to distant places / And let no sentiments of home detain us. Hermann Hesse
In happiness and pain the love we share and hope of tomorrow brings light to the dawning day. Greeting each morning as a gift of new beginnings. Mark Langendorf
If you can make one heap of all your winnings / And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,/ And lose, and start again at your beginnings,/ And never breathe a word about your loss. Rudyard Kipling
The whole world's broke and it ain't worth fixing / It's time to start all over, make a new beginning / There's too much pain, too much suffering / Let's resolve to start all over make a new beginning Tracy L. Chapman
If I stay, would you put an end / To all the games you play / Can you promise me / That you will never stray / Has to be a new beginning from today. Guillaume Mathieu
Save me this ain't over / And maybe we are much closer / To every dream we had / I wish it could be just a new beginning. Dave Roth
My world is brighter / My view much wider / New beginning, first breath of air / I'm so aware of new beginning / I'm thankful for the chance to start again / I've turned the page, a change came with the wind / It's not the end, it's a new beginning. Blue Miller
In the deserts of the heart / Let the healing fountain start / In the prison of his days / Teach the free man how to praise. W.H. Auden
The work, my friend, is peace. More than an end of this war--an end to the beginnings of all wars. Franklin D. Roosevelt
If you really want to make a milliion, the quickest way is to start your own religion. L. Ron Hubbard
My love is of a birth as rare / As 'tis for object strange and high/ It was begotten by despair / Upon impossibility. Susan Ratcliffe
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are. J.P. Morgan
Celebrate endings—for they precede new beginnings. Jonathan Lockwood Huie