50+ New Beginnings Quotes to Empower You to Start Over

On this page you will find new beginnings quotes to inspire action and change. This is a handpicked selection of quotes for starting over that concentrate on encouraging first steps to bring about life change.

New Beginnings Quotes

For ease of finding the kind of inspirational new beginnings quotes you may be looking for on the subject of making a fresh start or letting go in order to begin again, these motivational quotes have been divided into groups under the following headings:

TABLE OF CONTENTS

• New Beginnings Quotes - Every Day is a New Day Quotes
• New Beginnings Quotes - Start Now, Don't Wait
• New Beginnings Quotes - First Steps Quotes
• Benefits of Starting Again and Making Changes Quotes
• Making Changes Quotes - Choosing to Change / Change Not of Our Own Making

Use these new beginnings quotes to uplift you and inspire you to change some aspect of your life that is currently not working for you. Don't let fear hold you back. Share with your friends and family those new beginnings quotes that most resonate with you. Chances are you will inspire change in them too.

Many of the following first steps quotes make perfect captions for your Instagram and Facebook posts. Another way to use inspirational quotes is to include them in your bullet journal, diary, scrapbook and in arts and crafts projects.

If you are feeling a bit lost and not quite sure how to start, I suggest that you start anywhere with whatever is grabbing your attention right now. This will give you the momentum needed to start the change process.

If you need help with letting go in order to start fresh I have included some of the best quotes I know of on letting go too.

New Beginnings Quotes - Every day is a new day

1. Every moment is a fresh beginning.
   T.S. Eliot





Every moment is a fresh beginning. T S Eliot



2. Every day is a second chance.
   Unknown



3. Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?
   L.M. Montgomery



4. The beginning is always today.
   Mary Shelley



5. The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.
   Josiyah Martin



6. Every morning’s dew is a fresh breath of a new beginning.
   Jessica Edouard



7. 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



8. Each new day is a blank page in the diary of your life. The secret of success is in turning that diary into the best story you possibly can.
   Douglas Pagels



9. Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.
   Richie Norton






Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.
Richie Norton



10. No matter how difficult the past, you can always begin again today.
    Jack Kornfield



11. You are never too old to start over. Every day is a chance to make changes to create the life we want.
    Karon Waddell



12. You can start anew at any given moment. Life is just the passage of time and it’s up to you to pass it as you please.
    Charlotte Eriksson



13. Each sunrise brings a new day filled with new hopes for a new beginning.
    Debasish Mridha



14. Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
    Buddha





Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.
Buddha



15. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.
    Seneca



16. Every day is a fresh beginning; Every morn is the world made new.
    Sarah Chauncey Woolsey



17. As long as you’re alive, you always have the chance to start again.
    Emily Acker



18. The best thing about existence is that any moment in time can be a point of beginning to anything.
    Mehmet Murat Ildan



19. Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb.
    Chinonye J. Chidolue




New Beginnings Quotes - Start Now, Don't Wait

20. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.
    Alan Cohen



21. Don't wait for the right moment to start, start and make each moment right.
    Roy T. Bennett (The Light in the Heart)



22. The first thing to do is start, the second is to continue.
    Chinese Proverb




New Beginnings Quotes - First Step Quotes

Why as human beings do we resist ending something and making a new start? The simple answer is we fear change. Our minds go to the worst case scenario in a flash.

And so we avoid our reality: that something needs to change. That way we avoid pain and stay in our comfort zone.

Resistance to change is a survival mechanism. It's the old story of "a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush." Or to quote another adage "don't fix it if it aint broke." When the illusion of staying in control is paramount we will not risk change readily.

We don't tend to take steps to change something in our lives that isn't working unless it is forced upon us by circumstances eg death, relationship breakup, job loss. Or our situation has become so intolerable that it is more painful to stay the same than it is to make changes.

To combat our natural inclination to resist we have to understand our deepest fear. Change might mean failure in our eyes or in another's eyes. We may fear being vulnerable in some way or exposing ourselves to ridicule. We simply might not trust that we can navigate change successfully.

Working out what we are fearful of will give us insight into smashing the resistance to change. Actually taking a look at what we perceive to be our worst nightmare will help.

Ask yourself, what is the worst that can happen? And what is the worst thing about that? Write it down and then take a good long look at it on the page. Sometimes just by making it more concrete we come to the realization that it isn't as scary as we thought after all.

Now do the reverse. Ask yourself, what is the best thing that can happen? And how and why is that significant? Write it down. Now you can allow your mind to explore what are all the good things that might come out of making a change.


23. The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
    Nathaniel Branden
    

    

    The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
    Nathaniel Branden

    
    Nathaniel Branden reminds us that we first have to be aware that something about our life needs to change. If we go into denial regularly we will resist bringing the problematic situation into the forefront of our minds even though deep within us we know it is a problem. While we keep some distance from the problem we can pretend it doesn't exist and therefore give ourselves relief from worry.
    
    It is only when we practice self-reflection and reflect on our experiences in general that we become open to change. Writing down things can be useful as it can help us access our desires, longings and deepest fears much more readily.
    
    When we take a good look at a situation and reflect on what it is we want or don't want, it is at this point we can allow the extent of any problem to enter our conscious mind fully. We must accept the reality of our situation first but we don't have to like that reality.
    
    Awareness and acceptance are the tools that open us up to change. They create a pathway to begin working on a solution. Remember the mind is a big problem solving machine and it will get to work on solutions if we direct it to. Like putting a pot on the backburner so our minds will simmer away on the problem while we get on with the demands of daily life.
    
    
24. Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.
    William Throsby Bridges



25. Awareness is the first step in healing.
    Dean Ornish



26. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.
    J.P. Morgan



27. Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.
    Muhammad Ali



28. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
    Lao Tzu



29. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
    Martin Luther King Jr.



30. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are.
    Chauncey Depew



31. The funny thing about wishes. Sometimes all it took to make them come true was a first step.
    T.J. Klune



32. The first step is you have to say that you can.
    Will Smith



33. Setting goals is the first step in turning the invisible into the visible.
    Tony Robbins



34. Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.
    William James



35. The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
    Ben Stein





The indispensable first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: decide what you want.
Ben Stein



36. In order to get what you want, you must first decide what you want. Most people really foul up at this crucial first step because they simply can't see how it's possible to get what they want, so they don't even let themselves want it.
    Jack Canfield



37. All personal achievement starts in the mind of the individual. Your personal achievement starts in your mind. The first step is to know exactly what your problem, goal or desire is.
    W. Clement Stone



38. Take the first step, and your mind will mobilize all its forces to your aid. But the first essential is that you begin. Once the battle is startled, all that is within and without you will come to your assistance.
    Robert Collier



39. The first step in solving a problem is to recognize that it does exist.
    Zig Ziglar



40. Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away.
    Indira Gandhi



41. The challenge that so many people have is not knowing how to take that first step of reaching out to another person for help.
    Kate Middleton



42. The first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.
    Mark Caine



43. The first step is clearly defining what it is you're after, because without knowing that, you'll never get it.
    Halle Berry



44. The discipline of writing something down is the first step toward making it happen.
    Lee Iacocca



45. Writing is a really good first step toward that goal of knowing yourself.
    Jewel



46. Girl power to me means being brave enough to take that first step and to speak out and be yourself.
    Katherine McNamara



47. Learning to love yourself is not going to happen overnight - the first step is trying to be kinder and more patient with yourself, and I understand that it takes time.
    Tess Holliday



48. You must take the first step. The first steps will take some effort, maybe pain. But after that, everything that has to be done is real-life movement.
    Ben Stein




New Beginnings Quotes - Benefits of Starting and Making Changes

49. Good things come to those who initiate.
    Susan RoAne



50. Get busy living or get busy dying.
    Stephen King



51. It’s good to start over. It will be scary but you will see what you’re really made of; it’s the best opportunity to achieve what you never thought you could.
    Jennifer Coletta



52. Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.
    Tony Robbins





Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.
Tony Robbins



53. If you don't make things happen then things will happen to you.
    Robert Collier



54. Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.
    Ashton Kutcher



55. Life is short, and it is here to be lived.
    Kate Winslet



56. This is the beginning of a new day. You have been given this day to use as you will. You can waste it or use it for good. What you do today is important because you are exchanging a day of your life for it. When tomorrow comes, this day will be gone forever; in its place is something that you have left behind… let it be something good.
    Mac Anderson



57. What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
    Goethe



58. Right at the end of the road, a new way will be revealed.
    Hiral Nagda



59. Be what you are. This is the first step toward becoming better than you are.
    Julius Charles Hare




Making Changes Quotes - Choosing to Change / Change Not of Our Own Making

60. Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.
    Jim Rohn



61. If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.
    Dolly Parton



62. 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



63. Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.
    Mimi Novic

Final Thought

Hopefully these new beginnings quotes have been helpful to you in some way. This list will continue to expand over time as I find more quotes about new beginnings and starting over. I suggest you bookmark the page or share on social media so that is easy for you to return to check for updates.

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