28 Quotes About Starting Over
28 hand-verified quotes about fresh starts, second chances, and starting over — from C.S. Lewis, Joseph Campbell, MLK, Helen Keller, and Obama.
Fresh Starts
“You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.”
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. ”
“It's never too late — never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.”
“Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start. ”
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”
“You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.”
“The starting point of all achievement is desire.”
“And to make an end is to make a beginning.”
“For last year's words belong to last year's language, and next year's words await another voice.”
“And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been.”
“The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.”
“To-morrow to fresh woods, and pastures new.”
“If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change.”
“If you want to change the world, change yourself.”
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
Second Chances
“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.”
“Realize that if a door closed, it's because what was behind it wasn't meant for you.”
“Hope is that thing inside us that insists something better awaits us.”
“Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement; nothing can be done without hope.”
“Hope is a waking dream. ”
“Hope is itself a species of happiness.”
“Hope is like a road in the country; when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.”
“We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair.”
“While there's life there's hope, and only the dead have none.”
“A leader is a dealer in hope.”
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. ”
“The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present.”
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