Starting Over Quotes

There comes a time in many lives when all that is left to do is to start over - and that is not always a bad thing. May you find value in these quotes about starting over.

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
- C. S. Lewis

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Quotes about Starting Over

Courage doesn't always roar.
Sometimes courage is the quiet voice
at the end of the day saying,
"I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
- Nelson Mandela

Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.
- Winston Churchill

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks
into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
- Mark Twain

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
- Albert Einstein

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank

My Mama always said you've got to put the past behind you before you can move on.
- the movie Forrest Gump

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning,
some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
- William Throsby Bridges

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

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

Courage is doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared.
- Eddie Rickenbacker

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, Begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it, Begin it now.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.
- Helen Keller

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

Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
- Norman Vincent Peale

I've chosen my life - now I want to start living it.
- the character Bella in Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer

I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
- Georgia O'Keeffe

If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.
- Dolly Parton

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.
- Theodore H. White

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready
-. Henry David Thoreau

Failure does not exist. Failure is simply someone else's opinion of how a certain act should have been completed. Once you believe that no act must be performed in any specific other-directed way, then failing becomes impossible.
- Wayne Dyer

God grant me the serenity
To accept the things I cannot change;
Courage to change the things I can;
And wisdom to know the difference.
- Reinhold Niebuhr

Start by doing what's necessary;
then do what's possible;
and suddenly you are doing the impossible.
- St. Francis of Assisi

The darkest night is often the bridge to the brightest tomorrow.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Powerful Dreams Inspire Powerful Action.
When you can taste, smell, and touch your dream, you can enroll the world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Welcome the Unexpected. Mostly, it is human to dislike surprises - often with great intensity.
Be open to new ways; sometimes newness just knocks on our door; welcome it.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Whatever you want in life, start today.
Not tomorrow - today.
Let it be a small beginning - a tiny beginning.
Your happiness depends on starting today - every day.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Consider a new beginning with your family - choose to take them less seriously.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Play with life,
laugh with life,
dance lightly with life,
and smile at the riddles of life,
knowing that life's only true lessons are writ small in the margin.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I Can Do Anything - Starting Right Now. I have my dream, I have God, and I choose to move in the direction of my goal, even when I am afraid or unsure. Whenever I fall, I stand up, brush myself off, and keep moving toward my goal.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Smile. Today would be a wonderful day not to take life so seriously. Today may end up the way you prefer - and it may not. Happiness is not about being a winner - it's about being gentle with life - being gentle with yourself. Let life be a dance, and choose the kind of dance you want for today - perhaps a gentle loving dance.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Standing in the inspiring vision of my future, I boldly take every step - large and small - with courage and intent.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Starting Fresh

Supposing you have tried and failed again and again.
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose,
for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.
- Mary Pickford

USE this time of fresh beginnings. Use it as an impetus, the force or energy toward change. Become stronger, a better leader, more focused in your thoughts. Exert more influence over your dreams by bringing them closer to your thoughts, every day.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

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