106 Quotes about New Beginnings + 4 Tips For New Starts

Jacqueline Eisenbraun (Senior Editor)

Are you facing a new beginning and looking for inspiring quotes? Whether it’s a career change or moving to a new city – change always sparks inner conflict. Below you will find some suitable quotes for this situation.

If you are facing a new beginning in your life, you must be aware of many things at once. Changes are ahead and they will lead you to both grow as a person, as well as distance yourself from the person you currently are.

Starting from scratch, whether that’s in your job, your love life or even in a completely new city, requires willpower and effort.

Below, you will find quotes and tips for dealing with new beginnings that should help you put the unknown and the seemingly insurmountable into a tolerable perspective.

New Beginning Sayings: 106 Quotes about Life Changes

New Beginning Sayings: 106 Quotes about Life Changes

Here, we’ve gathered a collection of quotes and sayings for you across 11 different categories that tackle the topic of new beginnings.

Regardless of the new path life has in store for you and which challenges you’re currently facing: here you will find the motivation you need.

Here you’ll find beautiful quotes about hope.

Beautiful and Positive Quotes about a New Beginning

Beautiful and Positive Quotes about a New Beginning

This category contains particularly beautiful quotes about new beginnings. If you are having difficulties with your responsibilities and need to remind yourself that you wanted this change, take your pick from this pool of quotes. It will help you to gain new self-confidence.

1. There is a staying in going,
   a winning in losing,
   an ending in new beginnings.
   (from Japan)
2. Every new beginning is difficult; he who confidently departs, arrives!
   (Johann Heinrich Voß, German poet, 1751-1826)
3. Life is change. Resisting this change counteracts the flow of life more so than yielding to it. The essence of life is its process: the results, conditions and experiences that form us and every so often throw us off the train.
   (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English writer, 1772-1834)
4. The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development.
   (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, 1854-1900)
5. Don’t worry about what might happen if you start this or that! It will always be nothing but you: because what you can want also belongs in your life.
   (Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologist, 1768-1834)
6. “If only I could start all over again!” – But you can – every day!
   (Ernst Albert Zeller, German doctor, 1804-1877)
7. Nothing in the history of life is more constant than change.
   (Charles Darwin, British scientist, 1809-1882)
8. The most significant epoch for an individual is their development.
   (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, 1749-1832)
9. He who does not begin for fear of harm is a coward; You don’t skip eating for fear of not digesting it.
   (Narayana, Vishnu)
10. If we do not start over, we cannot hope to progress.
    (Johann Gottfried Seume, German writer, 1763-1810)   

New Beginnings Quotes for a Wedding

New Beginnings Quotes for a Wedding

Weddings are a time of unimaginable joy and love, and your own wedding is one of the biggest new beginnings you can face. You and your loved one have chosen to spend your lives together, and you are taking the journey of life hand in hand.

If you are looking for a quote to use in a speech at your wedding or the wedding of somebody close to you, you can use one of the ones below to toast to this beautiful new beginning.

1. Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.
   (Henry Ford, American businessman, 1863-1947)
2. New love is the brightest, and long love is the greatest. But revived love is the tenderest thing known on earth.
   (Thomas Hardy, British writer, 1840-1928)
3. What lies behind us, and what lies before us, are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
   (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, 1803-1882)
4. Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.
   (Lao-tzu, Chinese philosopher, 365 B.C.-290 B.C.)
5. Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy, you must have somebody to divide it with.
   (Mark Twain, American writer, 1835-1910)
6. Grow old along with me; the best is yet to be.
   (Robert Browning, English poet, 1812-1889)
7. My love for you is a journey, starting at forever and ending at never.
   (Unknown)
8. What greater thing is there for two human souls, than to feel that they are joined for life – to strengthen each other in all labor, to rest on each other in all sorrow, to minister to each other in all pain, to be with each other in silent unspeakable memories at the moment of the last parting?
   (George Eliot, English writer, 1819-1880)
9. Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.
   (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, 1749-1832)
10. One of the greatest things in life is finding someone who knows all your mistakes and still thinks you are absolutely amazing.
    (Unknown)

Here you’ll find beautiful wedding vows.

Quotes for a New Beginning After a Divorce

Quotes for a New Beginning After a Divorce

Divorce is a complex subject. While the ending of a marriage can be sad, an unhappy marriage is much sadder. Allow yourself time to grieve and heal after what has come to pass, and begin to focus on your new beginning.

A new beginning after a divorce can be terrifying, but you will begin to rediscover how to lead your new life according to your own desires. The quotes below relate to the feelings that crop up during divorces and encourage you to look towards your new future.

1. What lies behind you and what lies in front of you, pales in comparison to what lies inside of you.
   (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, 1803-1882)
2. The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.
   (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian revolutionary, 1869-1948)
3. Divorces are made in heaven.
   (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, 1854-1900)
4. To live, to err, to triumph, to re-create life out of life!
   (James Joyce, Irish writer, 1882-1941)
5. Even the darkest nights come to an end, and the Sun will rise.
   (Victor Hugo, French author, 1802-1885)
6. The only standing peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.
   (Lord Chesterfield, British Earl, 1694-1773)
7. If you’re still looking for a happy ending, I suggest you start searching for a new beginning.
   (Unknown)
8. Experiencing a great change, like divorce, has the power to change us greatly.
   (Unknown)
9. Everything that has a beginning has an ending. Make peace with that and all will be well.
   (Buddha, founder of Buddhism, 560 B.C.-483 B.C.)
10. There will be many chapters in your life. Don’t get lost in the one you’re in now.
    (Unknown)

New Beginnings Quotes for a Journey

New Beginnings Quotes for a Journey

Are you considering taking the leap and setting out on a new journey? If you are looking for a new beginning and are considering travelling to unknown places, or perhaps embarking on a more figurative journey in life, the quotes below will encourage you to take the first step.

1. The only journey is the one within.
   (Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian storyteller and lyricist,1875-1926)
2. To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
   (Ralph Waldo Emerson, American philosopher, 1803-1882)
3. To get through the hardest journey, we need take only one step at a time, but we must keep on stepping.
   (Chinese proverb)
4. Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds that you plant.
   (Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish writer, 1850-1894)
5. One may walk over the highest mountain one step at a time.
   (John Wanamaker, American merchant, 1838-1922)
6. I tramp a perpetual journey.
   (Walt Whitman, American poet, 1819-1892)
7. Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
   (Henry David Thoreau, American philosopher, 1817-1862)
8. The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
   (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, 1749-1832)
9. Life is a journey filled with unexpected miracles.
   (Unknown)
10. Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
    (Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author, 1874-1942)

Bible Verses about New Beginnings

Bible Verses about New Beginnings

Below are a number of quotes from the Bible that deal with new beginnings. Whether you are starting a new job, moving city or starting a new relationship: if you practice Christianity and want to turn to the Bible to learn what it says about new beginnings, these quotes are for you.

These quotes should strengthen your faith and offer you encouragement when you need it most.

1. Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! In his great mercy he has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead.
   (1 Peter 1:3)
2. Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, the new creation has come: The old has gone, the new is here!
   (1 Corinthians 5:17)
3. I will give them an undivided heart and put a new spirit in them; I will remove from them their heart of stone and give them a heart of flesh.
   (Ezekiel 11:19)
4. Behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
   (Isaiah 65:17)
5. Your beginnings will seem humble, so prosperous will your future be.
   (Job 8:7)
6. For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.
   (Jeremiah 29:11)
7. Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
   (Proverbs 3:5-6)
8. Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.
   (Isaiah 43:18-19)
9. Because of the Lord’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. I say to myself, “The Lord is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.
   (Lamentations 3:22-24)
10. You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.
    (Ephesians 4:22-24)

Quotes about Letting Go And Moving On

Quotes about Letting Go And Moving On

This category contains quotes about change, letting go and moving on. Every new beginning brings the end of an old chapter with it, which sometimes goes hand in hand with grief, sometimes with relief. But change happens and you have to let go of what’s familiar.

1. You need empty hands to hold something new.
   (Unknown)
2. Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
   Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
   (Alexander Pope, English poet, 1688-1744)
3. Everything you encounter is experience,
   and everything you let go of is knowledge.
   (Unknown)
4. You should know that never in this life has a person left himself so deeply that he couldn’t find more to leave for himself.
   (Meister Eckhart, German philosopher, 1260-1328)
5. Learn to let go. That is the key to happiness.
   (Buddha, founder of Buddhism, 560 B.C.-483 B.C.)
6. Letting go: Being able to lay something down without having to regard it as a defeat.
   (Henriette Wilhelmine Hanke, Lower Silesian writer, 1784-1826)
7. If you let go, you have two free hands.
   (from China)
8. You can always let go. The world goes its way according to God’s righteousness.
   (Unknown)

Moving Forward: Quotes about a New Beginning After a Breakup

Moving Forward: Quotes about a New Beginning After a Breakup

When a relationship ends, you are faced with a new beginning. Below, you will find quotes that will raise your spirits and soften the pain after a breakup. Choose a quote from this category when you need to remind yourself that you are the only person in your life responsible for your own happiness.

1. It is frightening to always be looking, but it is much more frighting to have found, and have to leave behind.
   (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German poet, 1749-1832)
2. Separation – even when it leaves scars – is a requirement of life.
   (Lily Braun, German writer, 1865-1916)
3. What is new will and must occur: New in a sense different to that which, for bad and self-serving reasons, wants to fool us into thinking something old is really something new. Behold, its work will not stand, for God has not caused so many signs and wonders to take place in vain. This belief sustains the brave.
   (Ernst Moritz Arndt, German writer, 1769-1860)
4. To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development.
   (Oscar Wilde, Irish poet, 1854-1900)
5. In pain is a new time born.
   (Adelbert von Chamisso, French poet, 1781-1838)
6. What you love, you should not keep.
   (Napoleon Bonaparte, French statesman, 1769-1821)
7. The depths of the human soul are unfathomable, the transitions of a heart inscrutable and unpredictable.
   (Sophie Verena, German writer, 1826-1892)
8. He who wishes to start anew should do so immediately. Settle one difficulty and you keep a hundred away.
   (Confucius, Chinese philosopher, 551 B.C.-479 B.C.)

Short Quotes on New Beginnings

Short Quotes on New Beginnings

The sayings in this category are particularly short and so work brilliantly as uplifting quotes to send on WhatsApp. You can also repeat them to yourself as mantras to quickly remind yourself that you can accomplish anything you encounter when facing a change.

Here you’ll find some short quotes about new beginnings:

1. All sensual pleasure in love lies in change.
   (Molière, French actor, 1622-1673)
2. All things change, there is nothing in the whole world which is permanent.
   (Publius Ovidius Naso, Ancient Roman poet, 43 B.C-17 A.D.)
3. A hard beginning maketh a good ending.
   (John Heywood, English writer, 1497-1580)
4. You must change your life.
   (Rainer Maria Rilke, Austrian storyteller and lyricist,1875-1926)
5. Every day, we wish to begin a new life.
   (Edith Stein, German philosopher, 1891-1942)
6. Never start to stop, never stop to start.
   (Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman orator and statesman, 106-43 B.C.)
7. Dare to start in everything that must be!
   (Georg Stammler, German writer, 1872-1948)
8. What’s well begun is half done.
   (George Horace Lorimer, US journalist and author, 1899-1937)
9. You should begin again every day.
   (Francis of Assisi, catholic saint, 1182-1226)
10. Everything is seed.
    (Novalis, German poet, 1772-1801)
11. Every beginning is difficult.
    (Publius Ovidius Naso, Ancient Roman poet, 43 B.C-17 A.D.)

Quotes about the Change in New Beginnings

Quotes about the Change in New Beginnings

Here are sayings about changes and taking new paths. These quotes will allow you to illustrate how changes can enrich your life and why it is good to accept new beginnings.

1. One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others.
   (Niccolò Machiavelli, Italian author and philosopher, 1469-1527)
2. Pleasure in change is permanently distinct to humans.
   (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, German naturalist, 1742-1799)
3. After change, everybody shouts that they are bored.
   (Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher, theologian and writer, 1813-1855)
4. There is no art, no change without movement.
   (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher, c. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.)
5. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
   (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist, 1821-1881)
6. All life is under the paradox that, if things should remain the same, they cannot remain the same.
   (Franz von Baader, German philosopher, 1765-1841)
7. Eternal monotony withstands; change is simply the salt of pleasure.
   (Friedrich Schiller, German dramatist, 1759-1805)
8. Some mistake their changed view of a person as a change in them.
   (Jean Paul, German writer, 1763-1825)
9. When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.
   (from China)
10. Change is pleasant and necessary to human nature, even if it is for the worse.
    (Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet, 1715-1759)
11. Nothing is “eternal,” not in nature nor in human life, change, transition are all that is eternal.
    (August Bebel, German politician, 1840-1913)

Quotes about New Beginnings After Moving Out

Quotes about New Beginnings After Moving Out

Moving to a new city is always the beginning of a new chapter in life. The quotes in this category are geared towards bracing yourself for the coming challenges and motivating yourself in times of uncertainty and doubt.

1. Human nature does not conform to always going in one direction, it has its comings and goings.
   (Blaise Pascal, French mathematician, 1623-1662)
2. Change is necessary, like the renewal of leaves in spring.
   (Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter and graphic artist, 1853-1890)
3. All things are difficult before they are easy.
   (Thomas Fuller, English historian, 1608-1661)
4. The return makes one love the farewell.
   (Alfred de Musset, French writer, 1810-1857)
5. It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.
   (Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman philosopher, c. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.)
6. It is all about the first step.
   (Edward Gibbon, English essayist, 1737-1794)
7. The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.
   (Marie de Vichy Chamrond, French salonnière, 1696-1780)
8. What’s old collapses, times change,
   And new life blossoms in the ruins.
   (Friedrich von Schiller, German playwright, 1759-1805)

New Beginnings Quotes about a New Job

New Beginnings Quotes about a New Job

In this category, you will find quotes related to starting a new job. Whether you’re looking for motivational quotes for your first day of work or for some words of encouragement before your job interview – you will find the right words for staring a new job here.

1. It is incredibly difficult to really explore new horizons, not just to discuss new ideas.
   (Heinrich Lhotzky, German writer, 1859-1930)
2. The first day is full of excitement, the second full of uncertainty, and on the third day you have arrived.
   (Unknown)
3. The biggest step is the one through the door.
   (from Denmark)
4. The goal ever recedes from us. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory.
   (Mahatma Gandhi, Indian revolutionary, 1869-1948)
5. When the wind of change blows, some build walls and others build windmills.
   (from China)
6. You can only find out if it was the right decision by trying it.
   (Unknown)
7. If you want to succeed, you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
   (John D. Rockefeller, U.S. banker and entrepreneur, 1839-1937)
8. Before the winning is always the beginning.
   (German proverb)
9. The beginnings of all human undertakings are untidy.
   (John Galsworthy, English writer, 1867-1933)
10. Growth is only achieved by accepting change.
    (Unknown)

Poems about New Beginning

Poems about New Beginning

The poems below work especially well as parting gifts, when you or a loved one is facing a great change in life.

Send one of these poems in a card or with a photo of the two of you to signal your support for the change and to illustrate that changes are a good thing.

1)

New Life, New Love

The breezes blow on the river below,
And the fleecy clouds float high,
And I mark how the dark green gum trees match
The bright blue dome of the sky.

2)

Ring out, Wild Bells

Ring out, Wild Bells

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky,
The flying cloud, the frosty light:
The year is dying in the night;
Ring out, wild bells, and let him die.

Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The year is going, let him go;
Ring out the false, ring in the true.

3)

The Good Morrow

I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I
Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then?
But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Or snorted we in the Seven Sleepers’ den?
’Twas so; but this, all pleasures fancies be.
If ever any beauty I did see,
Which I desired, and got, ’twas but a dream of thee.

Tips for Your New Beginning

Tips for Your New Beginning

A new beginning always means a lot of input and new impressions that need to be processed. Moving house or starting a new job bring not only new people into your life, but they also move the center of your life to an entirely different place.

The same is true after a breakup: the center of your life, which had once been anchored in this particular person, has now fallen away. You now face the task of rediscovering the person you are or were without your partner.

New people, new streets, new transport networks and new routines to come. But for the unknown to become routine, you must actively do something about it. We have gathered some tips that should help you deal with big changes in your new life.

Communicate Your Emotions

With every new beginning comes the nervousness and the doubt about whether you have made the right decision. It takes a lot of courage to pursue the path ahead of you when you run into the first difficulties or your expectations aren’t met.

Make sure to let your feelings out and give yourself a chance to talk about what you have seen and experienced. Call your loved ones and tell them what you are dealing with, or write about your experiences in a journal.

It is important to attribute a name and a feeling to new things to make them tangible, and so you slowly start to trust them.

Trust Your Gut Feeling

Trust Your Gut Feeling

Remind yourself that you made a conscious decision to start over, and even if change scares you, remember: you wanted to take these steps. Dig out the reasons from the back of your mind: what motivated and appealed to you? What might have bothered you in your old life?

A new job is a challenge and you must learn to find your way, but it brings new tasks and perspectives and the chance for personal growth.

A new city can have a menacing, cold effect until you fill the corners and streets with experiences and future memories that you can associate with the city.

Breakups knock you to your knees and you can even become a stranger to yourself, but you have the chance to completely reinvent yourself however you like – without having to justify yourself to anyone. Trust your gut when it comes to changes, because every new beginning is an opportunity you have to grab on to.

Take Small Steps

Take Small Steps

Don’t overexert yourself right at the start of a new beginning by expecting yourself to instantly get over a breakup or to learn the entire new public transport network off by heart within the first week.

”Small steps are the path to success”

Let new situations come to you and try not to prove anything. Otherwise, you run the risk of disappointing yourself or of questioning your own judgement.

The pace at which you continue life after big changes should be geared more towards carefulness and your mental health than the principle of higher, faster, further.

Breakups are allowed to hurt. Likewise, it is totally okay for you to take twice as long to get around a new city in your first few weeks there, because you don’t know your way around so well yet. These things are part and parcel of new beginnings and should be planned for just as consciously as the change itself.

Put Yourself First

Put Yourself First

A new beginning is something you do for yourself, and only yourself. After all, you’re the one who will have to face all the challenges that come with it. Think about what is good for you and what gives you the energy you need to embrace and appreciate the changes in your life.

See yourself as the priority

You should put yourself first and not try to do right by everyone else. When it comes to starting over, the only requirements you need to meet are your own.

You want to start a new job to further your skills? Then proceed accordingly, be curious and observant and you will succeed. You want to move from your small town to the big city? Go hang out in the pubs and cafés, take the public transport, speak to people there and get some insight.

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