80 Best Moving On Quotes And Images

One of the hardest things to do in life is to move on. Sometimes we paint a picture in our head of what we want life to be and how we want things to turn out and when that doesn’t happen, it hits us really hard and we find ourselves broken and unmotivated to move on.

But no matter what comes at you in life, you must be strong and resilient and just keep moving forward, no matter what. Here are some moving on quotes to help you move on, when you just feel uninspired.

Life moves on and so should we” Spencer Johnson

Life moves on and so should we”
Spencer Johnson

A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” Jodi Picoult

A very wise man once told me that you can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”
Jodi Picoult

My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing the beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive – I’ll find love again.” Paulo Coelho

My heart might be bruised, but it will recover and become capable of seeing the beauty of life once more. It’s happened before, it will happen again, I’m sure. When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive – I’ll find love again.”
Paulo Coelho

That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.” Robyn Schneider

That’s all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. You keep going.”
Robyn Schneider

Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.” Deborah Reber

Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.”
Deborah Reber

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.” Steve Maraboli

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
Steve Maraboli

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” Mandy Hale

You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.”
Mandy Hale

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” Roy T. Bennett

Accept yourself, love yourself, and keep moving forward. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
Roy T. Bennett

Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.” Wayne L. Misner

Keeping baggage from the past will leave no room for happiness in the future.”
Wayne L. Misner

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?” Mary Manin Morrissey

Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on the brakes. In order to be free, we must learn how to let go. Release the hurt. Release the fear. Refuse to entertain your old pain. The energy it takes to hang onto the past is holding you back from a new life. What is it you would let go of today?”
Mary Manin Morrissey

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.” Mandy Hale

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for.”
Mandy Hale

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.” Rick Warren

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.”
Rick Warren

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” Ann Landers

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”
Ann Landers

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.” Alyson Noel

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.”
Alyson Noel

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.” Joel Osteen

You must make a decision that you are going to move on. It won’t happen automatically. You will have to rise up and say, ‘I don’t care how hard this is, I don’t care how disappointed I am, I’m not going to let this get the best of me. I’m moving on with my life.”
Joel Osteen

You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.” Jodi Picoult

You can’t look back – you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.”
Jodi Picoult

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” Steve Maraboli

Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.”
Steve Maraboli

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.” C. JoyBell C.

If you want to forget something or someone, never hate it, or never hate him/her. Everything and everyone that you hate is engraved upon your heart; if you want to let go of something, if you want to forget, you cannot hate.”
C. JoyBell C.

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.” Steve Maraboli

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.”
Steve Maraboli

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.” Cameron Dokey

I had to cease to mourn what could never be and make the most of what was possible. And I would begin doing that by trying to mend the hurts of the past.”
Cameron Dokey

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.” C. JoyBell C.

You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy. So let them go, let go of them. I tie no weights to my ankles.”
C. JoyBell C.

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say ‘I can do this’ even when you know you can’t.” Stephen King

If I kept saying it; if I kept reaching out. My accident really taught me just one thing: the only way to go on is to go on. To say ‘I can do this’ even when you know you can’t.”
Stephen King

There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.” Kate DiCamillo

There ain’t no way you can hold onto something that wants to go, you understand? You can only love what you got while you got it.”
Kate DiCamillo

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.” Steve Maraboli

It is important that we forgive ourselves for making mistakes. We need to learn from our errors and move on.”
Steve Maraboli

If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.” Sarah Dessen

If you didn’t love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.”
Sarah Dessen

Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.” Roy T. Bennett

Once you realize you deserve a bright future, letting go of your dark past is the best choice you will ever make.”
Roy T. Bennett

Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.” Mandy Hale

Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.”
Mandy Hale

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently, I could.” Gabrielle Zevin

It was strange, really. A couple months ago, I had thought I couldn’t live without him. Apparently, I could.”
Gabrielle Zevin

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.” Beryl Markham

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.”
Beryl Markham

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.” Paulo Coelho

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”
Paulo Coelho

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much drabber and empty for their departure.” Stephen King

Some birds are not meant to be caged, that’s all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too sweet and wild. So you let them go, or when you open the cage to feed them they somehow fly out past you. And the part of you that knows it was wrong to imprison them in the first place rejoices, but still, the place where you live is that much drabber and empty for their departure.”
Stephen King

Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.” Roy T. Bennett

Be Brave and Take Risks: You need to have faith in yourself. Be brave and take risks. You don’t have to have it all figured out to move forward.”
Roy T. Bennett

Change has to come for life to struggle forward.” Helen Hollick

Change has to come for life to struggle forward.”
Helen Hollick

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.” Rick Warren

God sometimes removes a person from your life for your protection. Don’t run after them.”
Rick Warren

When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.” Roy T. Bennett

When the going gets tough, put one foot in front of the other and just keep going. Don’t give up.”
Roy T. Bennett

Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be.” C. JoyBell C.

Lots of things can be fixed. Things can be fixed. But many times, relationships between people cannot be fixed because they should not be fixed. You’re aboard a ship setting sail, and the other person has joined the inland circus or is boarding a different ship, and you just can’t be with each other anymore. Because you shouldn’t be.”
C. JoyBell C.

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.” Oprah Winfrey

The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.”
Oprah Winfrey

If I look back I am lost.” George R.R. Martin

If I look back I am lost.”
George R.R. Martin

To wander is to be alive.” Roman Payne

To wander is to be alive.”
Roman Payne

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.” Elizabeth Berg

There is love in holding and there is love in letting go.”
Elizabeth Berg

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.” Fulton J. Sheen

In every friendship hearts grow and entwine themselves together so that the two hearts seem to make only one heart with only a common thought. That is why separation is so painful; it is not so much two hearts separating, but one being torn asunder.”
Fulton J. Sheen

It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?” Isabel Lopez

It never dawned on us that life is unpredictable, that one day, one of us could suddenly cease to exist and what then? What would be the joy in having left so much unsaid? With what memories would we fill the empty silence?”
Isabel Lopez

“I don’t know what lies ahead, but I want to keep going forever…” Fuyumi Soryo

“I don’t know what lies ahead, but I want to keep going forever…”
Fuyumi Soryo

Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.” Tori Amos

Girls you’ve gotta know when it’s time to turn the page.”
Tori Amos

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but you didn’t. As long as your heart kept pumping and your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn’t. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn’t stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.” Ann Brashares

You thought you had the choice to stay still or move forward, but you didn’t. As long as your heart kept pumping and your blood kept blowing and your lungs kept filling, you didn’t. The pang she felt for Tibby carried something like envy. You couldn’t stand still for anything short of death, and God knew she had tried.”
Ann Brashares

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.” Nicholas Sparks

It happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and what you want, and then you realize that people you’ve known forever don’t see things the way you do. So you keep the wonderful memories, but find yourself moving on.”
Nicholas Sparks

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” Shannon L. Alder

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.”
Shannon L. Alder

I’ve been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I’m moving on” Rascal Flatts

I’ve been burdened with blame trapped in the past for too long, I’m moving on”
Rascal Flatts

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.” Criss Jami

Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on.”
Criss Jami

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.” Pascal Mercier

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
Pascal Mercier

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.” Shannon L. Alder

The only real battle in life is between hanging on and letting go.”
Shannon L. Alder

I demolish my bridges behind me… then there is no choice but to move forward” Fridtjof Nansen

I demolish my bridges behind me… then there is no choice but to move forward”
Fridtjof Nansen

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.” Nicole Sobon

Sometimes the hardest part isn’t letting go but rather learning to start over.”
Nicole Sobon

The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” Faraaz Kazi

The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.”
Faraaz Kazi

It’s amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.” Tamara Thiel

It’s amazing, really, how in one instant a wall can be torn down or climbed over. Misconceptions can be shattered, illusions dashed, dreams irrevocably ruined. Given the right frame of mind, within a heartbeat, people can begin the business of starting over.”
Tamara Thiel

Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” C. JoyBell C.

Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.”
C. JoyBell C.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.” Katherine Mansfield

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.”
Katherine Mansfield

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.” Rosie Thomas

I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.”
Rosie Thomas

If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I’m going to get there.” Rachel Joyce

If I just keep putting one foot in front of the other, it stands to reason that I’m going to get there.”
Rachel Joyce

A competitive and insecure woman will tell you that “true love” is never giving up on someone you’re in love with. A confident and spiritual woman knows that “moving on” doesn’t mean you never loved someone. She realizes that letting go is what God needs her to do because both your happiness and hers requires taking different journeys for spiritual growth. Letting go is sometimes the hardest thing, but it is the most “real love” you will ever experience.” Shannon L. Alder

A competitive and insecure woman will tell you that “true love” is never giving up on someone you’re in love with. A confident and spiritual woman knows that “moving on” doesn’t mean you never loved someone. She realizes that letting go is what God needs her to do because both your happiness and hers requires taking different journeys for spiritual growth. Letting go is sometimes the hardest thing, but it is the most “real love” you will ever experience.”
Shannon L. Alder

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.” Gail Tsukiyama

Sometimes you can’t let go of the past without facing it again.”
Gail Tsukiyama

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.” Shannon A. Thompson

I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.”
Shannon A. Thompson

Rehashing the past wouldn’t change anything. Time to move forward.” Zena Wynn

Rehashing the past wouldn’t change anything. Time to move forward.”
Zena Wynn

Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.” Dan Brown

Sooner or later we’ve all got to let go of our past.”
Dan Brown

“I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.” Seth Adam Smith

“I must give you this warning: your journeys will rarely ever go as you plan. You will make mistakes, and you will feel lost. Whenever that happens, look to the light and keep moving forward in faith.”
Seth Adam Smith

Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.” Roy T. Bennett

Time doesn’t heal emotional pain, you need to learn how to let go.”
Roy T. Bennett

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.” Shannon L. Alder

When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.”
Shannon L. Alder

I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.” Susane Colasanti

I have to get my life back on track. Order as an antidote to chaos. Calm after the storm.”
Susane Colasanti

You loved him enough to let him leave… Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.” Ranata Suzuki

You loved him enough to let him leave… Now you need to love yourself enough to let him go.”
Ranata Suzuki

Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self-worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.” Shannon L. Alder

“Your heart’s strength is measured by how hard it holds on. Your self-worth and faith is measured by finally letting go. However, your peace is measured by how long you don’t look back.”
Shannon L. Alder

“If it doesn’t agree with your spirit let it go.” Germany Kent

“If it doesn’t agree with your spirit let it go.”
Germany Kent

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.” C. JoyBell C.

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe.”
C. JoyBell C.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” Lyndon B. Johnson

“Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.”
Lyndon B. Johnson

To everyone battling a difficulty or under attack right now, smile, keep your head up, keep moving and stay positive, you’ll get through it.” Germany Kent

To everyone battling a difficulty or under attack right now, smile, keep your head up, keep moving and stay positive, you’ll get through it.”
Germany Kent

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” Steve Maraboli

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”
Steve Maraboli

Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.” John Green

Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it’s over and you’re relieved.”
John Green

Memory looks back in order to move forward.” Marty Rubin

Memory looks back in order to move forward.”
Marty Rubin

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” Michael Bassey Johnson

“If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.”
Michael Bassey Johnson

The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.” Edmond Mbiaka

The answer to every adversity lies in courageously moving forward with faith.”
Edmond Mbiaka

Even a rock moves on.” Anthony Liccione

Even a rock moves on.”
Anthony Liccione

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