Starting Over Sayings and Quotes

Sometimes we need to hit the reset button on life. While this process isn’t as easy as rebooting our electronics, starting fresh can pay off in the long run. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and insightful starting over quotes.

That last page turned is a perfect excuse to write a whole new book. Toni Sorenson
Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. Meister Eckhart
Don't worry about being worried. You're heading out on an adventure and you can always change your mind along the way and try something else. Tracy Kidder
Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come. Joseph Campbell
Oh, my friend, it's not what they take away from you that counts. It's what you do with what you have left. Hubert Humphrey
Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect. Alan Cohen
It's humbling to start fresh. It takes a lot of courage. But it can be reinvigorating. You just have to put your ego on a shelf & tell it to be quiet. Jennifer Ritchie Payette
It isn't always a change of scenery needed to make life better. Sometimes it simply requires opening your eyes. Richelle E. Goodrich
There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. Franz Kafka
If I must start somewhere, right here and now is the best place imaginable. Richelle E. Goodrich
If God closes a door AND a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house. Mandy Hale
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu
Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again. Cora Coralina
Arriving at one goal is the starting point to another. John Dewey
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis
For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. T.S. Eliot
Celebrate endings, for they precede new beginnings. Jonathan Lockwood Huie
New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. Lao Tzu
Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. Carl Bard
Never forget, Today, you have 100% of your life left. Tom Hopkins
Start by doing what's necessary: then do what's possible: and suddenly you're doing the impossible. St Francis Of Assisi
If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one. Dolly Parton
I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning. J. B. Priestly
The secret to living the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams today, in every little way you possibly can. Mike Dooley
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are. Theodore Roosevelt
If all you can do is crawl, start crawling. Rumi
A Sunrise is God's way of saying, "Let's start again. Todd Stocker
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 secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates