Here is a collection of moving on quotes:
“Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have – life itself”.
– Walter Anderson
“To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on”.
– Dave Pelzer
“You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don’t try to forget the mistakes, but you don’t dwell on it. You don’t let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space”.
– Johnny Cash
“In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on”.
– Robert Frost
“Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer”.
– Denis Waitley
“Forgiving does not erase the bitter past. A healed memory is not a deleted memory. Instead, forgiving what we cannot forget creates a new way to remember. We change the memory of our past into a hope for our future”.
– Lewis B. Smedes
“Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you’ll never know. I truly believe what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing”.
– Danica Patrick
“Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward”.
– Maxwell Maltz
“I think it’s important to have closure in any relationship that ends – from a romantic relationship to a friendship. You should always have a sense of clarity at the end and know why it began and why it ended. You need that in your life to move cleanly into your next phase”.
– Jennifer Aniston
“Expect trouble as an inevitable part of life and repeat to yourself, the most comforting words of all; this, too, shall pass”.
– Ann Landers
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down”.
– Mary Pickford
“A lot of people say they want to get out of pain, and I’m sure that’s true, but they aren’t willing to make healing a high priority. They aren’t willing to look inside to see the source of their pain in order to deal with it”.
– Lindsay Wagner
“We all have life storms, and when we get the rough times and we recover from them, we should celebrate that we got through it. No matter how bad it may seem, there’s always something beautiful that you can find”.
– Mattie Stepanek
“There’s always something to suggest that you’ll never be who you wanted to be. Your choice is to take it or keep on moving”.
– Phylicia Rashad
“Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss”.
– Allen Klein
“Feeling sorry for ourselves is the most useless waste of energy on the planet. It does absolutely no good. We can’t let our circumstances or what others do or don’t do control us. We can decide to be happy regardless”.
– Joyce Meyer