65 Inspirational Quotes for New Beginnings

Life is a journey. Like any good story, there will be many chapters filled with twists, turns, beginnings, and endings. For every fresh start and reset in your life, you will find some words of wisdom that may help to inspire you.

Below you will find a collection of 65 inspirational quotes from profound figures of various backgrounds, belief systems, and disciplines. These words will hopefully give you an extra kick to propel you into this next phase of your life. With their wisdom to energize you, may you enter this next phase of your life with grace and power.

As Dr. Adam Grant, professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania once said: “They (motivational quotes) give meaning and direction. They spur new thoughts or new actions—or remind us to revisit old ones.” There are many times in our lives when this sort of wisdom can benefit us. 

What Are New Beginnings?

There are many moments in our lives when something that we have grown accustomed to will come to a close and something we are unfamiliar with will be introduced to us. This happens to everyone at different stages of their lives and in varying degrees, however, it is very common nonetheless.

It is an important thing to understand and accept these moments of change when they occur. Of course, that can be easier said than done sometimes. It can even be difficult to recognize a moment of change when it is in the midst of transitioning. However, as we live our lives and experience these different moments and paradigm shifts we grow more prepared for them in the future as well as growing overall as a person.

It is healthy, powerful, and pivotal to grow, change and adapt in life. To learn, to stay fresh, to improve upon yourself and your situation will only benefit you as well as those around you and therefore the world as a whole.

So whether this particular change is one that you have initiated and sought after or it is one that was unforeseen and came from an outside force, it is helpful to read or listen to words of wisdom from those that have experience. No matter the circumstance, there is a lesson to be learned and a perspective to be gained.

When Do New Beginnings Occur?

New Beginnings will come and go at various points in our lives. Out with the old, and in with the new, as they say. These may be self-initiated or provoked such as:

• Getting a new job
• Moving to a new city, state, or country
• Moving into a new apartment
• Buying or building a home
• Starting a business
• Pursuing a new hobby
• Traveling internationally or domestically
• Getting married
• Dating a new partner
• Having, adopting or fostering children
• Learning a new language
• Changing careers
• Following a dream

Or they may be from something that happens to you:

• Losing a job
• Death of a loved one
• Divorce or breakup
• Losing a friend over an argument or misunderstanding
• Financial Difficulty
• Physical, mental or emotional struggles
• Dealing with a frightening diagnosis

No matter what stage of your life you are currently in or are entering, I hope you will find something in these words that will benefit you moving forward.

Inspirational Quotes For New Beginnings

1.

“Any new beginning can start now and if you want anything bad enough you’ll find the courage to pursue it with all you have. The past doesn’t have to be the future, stop making it so.”

Nikki Rowe

2.

“Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.”

Richie Norton

3.

“Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.”

Anne Sullivan

4.

“When we dream alone it is only a dream, but when many dream together it is the beginning of a new reality.”

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

5.

“I hope you realize that every day is a fresh start for you. That every sunrise is a new chapter in your life waiting to be written.”

Juansen Dizon

6.

“From the end spring new beginnings.”

Pliny the Elder

7.

“It is not the failure that holds us back but the reluctance to begin over again that causes us to stagnate.”

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

8.

“I’d been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.”

Steve Jobs

9.

“The beginning is always today.”

Mary Shelley

10.

“Sometimes you have to burn it down and start over.”

Kelly Braffet

11.

“A Sunrise is God’s way of saying, “Let’s start again.”

Todd Stocker

12.

“Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.”

Ralph Blum

13.

“Pain is also a symptom of transformation. I thought about bouncing back. How we can start again. And again.”

Abbi Jacobson

14.

“Never feel guilty for starting again.”

Rupi Kaur

15.

“Perhaps that is where our choice lies – in determining how we will meet the inevitable end of things, and how we will greet each new beginning.”

Elana K. Arnold

16.

“There is something beautiful about a blank canvas, the nothingness of the beginning that is so simple and breathtakingly pure. It’s the paint that changes its meaning and the hand that creates the story. Every piece begins the same, but in the end they are all uniquely different.”

Piper Payne

17.

“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.”

Germany Kent

18.

“I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.”

Oprah Winfrey

19.

“When there’s a big disappointment, we don’t know if that’s the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure.”

Pema Chödrön

20.

“Humble new beginnings do exist, but to begin, you must be humble. Nothing ever stays the same.”

Melody Carstairs

21.

“All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.”

Napoleon Hill

22.

“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”

Desmond Tutu

23.

“Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.”

Joel Osteen

24.

“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”

Seneca

25.

“Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.“

Prince

26.

“Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself to become a new person.”

Gerard Way

27.

“It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day? I don’t know about you, but I make plenty. You can’t turn the clock back, so you have to look ahead.“

Mel Gibson

28.

“Let’s forget the baggage of the past and make a new beginning.“

Shehbaz Sharif

29.

“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”

Richard Bach

30.

“Sometimes it’s not about trying to fix something that’s broken. Sometimes it’s about starting again and building something new. Something better”

Leisa Rayven

31.

“Let every dawn be to you as the beginning of life.”

John Ruskin

32.

“For a true writer, each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment.”

Ernest Hemingway

33.

“Forget everything you’ve done. Start over.”

Marty Rubin

34.

“When you feel as though you can’t do something, the simple antidote is action: Begin doing it. Start the process, even if it’s just a simple step, and don’t stop at the beginning.”

Marcus Buckingham

35.

“I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.”

Judith Minty

36.

“Sometimes, you just have to start all over differently.”

Bernard Kelvin Clive

37.

“Without a beginning I am pouring the whole of my existence into the building of endings, while the cross and the resurrection declare that God is incessantly building beginnings from the collapse of endings.”

Craig D. Lounsbrough

38.

“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

39.

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”

George Bernard Shaw

40.

“The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.”

Jodi Picoult

41.

“Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways.”

Rachel Joyce

42.

“Before beginning, plan carefully.”

Marcus Tullius Cicero

43.

“The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.”

H. G. Wells

44.

“Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end; then stop.”

Lewis Carroll

45.

“If you start in the pit of despair with these profane, awful things, even a glimmer of hope or awareness is going to occur that’s much brighter coming from this dark, awful beginning.”

Chuck Palahniuk

46.

“Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.”

Jennifer Elisabeth

47.

“Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.”

Winston Churchill

48.

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”

Oscar Wilde

49.

“It’s easy enough to keep something moving, but getting it going in the first place is hard. That’s the thing about second chances and fresh starts. It’s a (re)start.”

Wildbow

50.

“Life is a process – just one thing after another. When you lose it, just start again.”

Richard Carlson

51.

“There comes a moment when you realise that there are no more chapters left in the book of your (current) life and it’s time to start a new book.”

Malebo Sephodi

52.

“Tomorrow when I awaken, the slate will be clean, and a new day will stretch before me. God’s mercies are new every morning.”

Lori Hatcher

53.

“Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.”

Meister Eckhart

54.

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

Andre Gide

55.

“Hit the reset button. Whatever happened yesterday, forget about it. Get a new perspective. Today is a new day. Fresh start, begins now.”

Germany Kent

56.

“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”

Plato

57.

“In every end, there is also a beginning.”

Libba Bray

58.

“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.”

Steve Maraboli

59.

“You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.”

Arnold Bennett

60.

“Birthing is never easy or without pain, be it a universe, a child, or a fresh start in life. Contraction precedes expansion. Darkness comes before dawn. Joy follows pain. This is the way of things.”

John Mark Green

61.

“This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times – or you will be useless.”

Mitch Albom

62.

“Recreate your life, always, always. Remove the stones, plant rose bushes and make sweets. Begin again.”

Cora Coralina

63.

“Instead of saying, “I’m damaged, I’m broken, I have trust issues,” say “I’m healing, I’m rediscovering myself, I’m starting over.”

Horacio Jones

64.

“A fresh start is always made with dirty laundry.”

Teri Louise Kelly

65.

“Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.”

Dejan Stojanovic

Conclusion… Or A Fresh Start

New beginnings can be fun, exciting, or at times hard to face. Whether you are entering a happy moment in your life or are forced to overcome a difficult challenge, there is much to be gained from reading words of wisdom. I truly hope you have found something here that may at the very least make your day a little brighter.