One of the best ways to move on is to avoid thinking about the past or what went wrong, as several of these quotes about moving forward in life and being happy discuss.
Moving forward in life is critical for a better life. The person you are attached to is no longer with you. You now have to deal with this pain. Next, realize that life carries on regardless of the situation; Some people face even greater challenges, and you are strong enough to build a brighter future. You have the courage to take the next steps, no matter how hard it feels right now.
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Quotes about Moving forward in Life and being Happy
1. “Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on.” — Carrie Underwood
2. “Those who move forward with a happy spirit will find that things always work out.” — Gordon B. Hinkley
3. “The darker the night, the brighter the stars, the deeper the grief, the closer is God!” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
4. “Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we’re curious… and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” — Walt Disney
5. “Grief is in two parts. The first is loss. The second is the remaking of life.” — Anne Roiphe
6. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward finding the answer.” — Denis Waitley
7. “Cry. Forgive. Learn. Move on. Let your tears water the seeds of your future happiness.” — Steve Maraboli
8. “You stop revisiting memories when you outgrow the people you made them with.” — Nikki Rowe
9. “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
10. “Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterward.” — Tina Fey
11. “If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.” — Amit Ray
12. “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
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13. “Love yourself enough to move forward from whatever mistakes you may have made.” — Akiroq Brost
14. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” — Hermann Hess
15. “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” — C.S. Lewis
16. “There’s no time for regrets. You’ve just got to keep moving forward.” — Mike McCready
17. “Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer
18. “Life’s not about how hard of a hit you can give… it’s about how many you can take and still keep moving forward.” — Sylvester Stallone
19. “Letting go is hard, but being free is beautiful.” — Wilder Poetry
20. “Life is about how much you can take and keep fighting, how much you can suffer and keep moving forward.” — Anderson Silva
21. “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” — Jeffrey McDaniel
22. “When you have something to do, life will not allow you to move forward until you do it.” — Iyanla Vanzant
23. “Meanwhile, life keeps moving forward. The truth is, there’s no better time to be happy than right now. If not now, when?” — Richard Carlson
24. “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
25. “Growth is about moving forward while chaos often sends you repeatedly through the same cycles.” — Victoria L. White
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26. “You can’t expect to move forward if your emergency break is on.” — Angela Cecilia
27. “Life doesn’t always end up where you want it to go; you have to be an optimist and keep moving forward.” — Tinsley Mortimer
28. “You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.” — Conrad Hall
29. “There is no passion to be found playing small — in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.” — Nelson Mandela
30. “Man maintains his balance, poise, and sense of security only as he is moving forward.” — Maxwell Maltz
31. “You can spend minutes, hours, days, weeks, or even months over-analyzing a situation; trying to put the pieces together, justifying what could’ve, would’ve happened… or you can just leave the pieces on the floor and move on.” — Tupac Shakur
32. “I’m always moving forward and trying new things.” — Robert Redford
33. “Don’t stay in the harbor and miss the greatness of the sea. Just because everyone else is anchored doesn’t mean you have to be.” — Joyce Rachelle
34. “I believe that, we’re better when we’re moving forward. We’re stronger together, so that’s what I’m going to be doing.” — Hillary Clinton
35. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.” — Lao Tzu
36. “A strong woman looks a challenge in the eye and gives it a wink.” — Gina Carey
37. “I think everything moving forward will just be instinctual, like we’ll know exactly which doors to walk through when they open.” — Cody Johnson
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38. “It is safe to be me. I love life. I am always safe and secure. I move forward in life with joy and ease. All is well in my world.” — Louise Hay
39. “That sense of ambition, of aspiration, of moving forward, will be very important.” — Hazel Blears
40. “Like wildflowers, you must allow yourself to grow in all the places people thought you never would.” — E.V.
41. “Tomorrow becomes never. No matter how small the task, take the first step now!” — Tim Ferriss
42. “You will evolve past certain people. Let yourself.” — Mandy Hale
43. “If you have stumbled or even been lost for a time, you can move forward with faith and not wander to and fro in the world any longer.” — Boyd K. Packer
44. “If you carry joy in your heart, you can heal any moment.” — Carlos Santana
45. “Brave is not saying I have no fear. It’s being terrified and still moving forward.” — Elisa Jimenez
46. “Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient what should not be done at all.” — Peter Drucker
47. “Nothing so clears the vision and lifts up the life, as a decision to move forward in what you know to be entirely the will of the Lord.” — John Gibson Paton
48. “Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.” — Katerina Stoykova Klemer
49. “It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.” — Theodore Roosevelt
50. “The pain of letting go will be eclipsed by the relief of moving on.” — Scott Stabile
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51. “You are allowed to let go of all the things that don’t set you free anymore.” — Dhiman
52. “Moving on will show you a lot about who you are, what you truly want, & what you have no desire to waste your time on.” — April Mae Monterrosa
53. “All survival situations revolve around a host of variables…Always adapt, think positive, and move forward.” — Cody Lundin
54. “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul – and sings the tunes without the words – and never stops at all.” — Emily Dickinson
55. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
56. “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
57. “Low self-confidence can hinder us from achieving all that we could achieve. It stops us from taking any risks, it stops us moving forward.” — Catherine Pulsifer
58. “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
59. “If you make a mistake, no matter what, correct your error and keep moving forward.” — Alex Altman
60. “I mean, don’t forget the earth’s about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?” — Harold Pinter
61. “Life is like riding a bicycle, to keep your balance, you must keep moving.” — Albert Einstein
62. “Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.” — Lyndon B. Johnson
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63. “Don’t brood. Get on with living and loving. You don’t have forever.” — Leo Buscaglia
64. “So when you feel like hope is gone, look inside you and be strong, and you’ll finally see the truth, that a hero lies in you” — Mariah Carey
65. “If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.” — Dolly Parton
66. “Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us.” — Mimi Novic
67. “The purpose of our lives is to be happy.” — Dalai Lama
68. “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” — Walt Disney
69. “The most successful people are those who are willing to keep moving forward after making mistakes.” — Coach Flanagan
70. “The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.” — Lalah Delia
71. “The human capacity for burden is like bamboo – far more flexible than you’d ever believe at first glance.” — Jodi Picoult
72. “Holding on is believing that there’s a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” — Daphne Rose Kingma
73. “Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.” — John Lennon
74. “Moving on is not forgetting — moving on is being able to remember without feeling awful about it.” — Sam Madison
75. “Never let the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game.” — Babe Ruth
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76. “If you’re not moving forward, you’re falling back.” — Sam Waterson
77. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West
78. “It’s time to say goodbye, but I think goodbyes are sad and I’d much rather say hello. Hello to a new adventure.” — Ernie Harwell
79. “In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.” — Robert Frost
80. “Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma – which is living with the results of other people’s thinking.” — Steve Jobs
81. “We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.” —Maya Angelou
82. “Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.” — Seneca
83. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” — Seneca
84. “The whole secret of a successful life is to find out what is one’s destiny to do, and then do it.” — Henry Ford
85. “Faith is moving forward even when things don’t make sense, trusting that in hindsight everything will become clear.” — Mandy Hale
86. “Always go as far as you can see, then let faith take you the rest of the way.” — Seth Adam Smith
87. “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
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88. “To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it.” — Kurt Vonnegut
89. “You just dont know that it is the last time. But I think thats a good thing because if you did know it would be almost impossible to let go .” — Lauren Oliver
90. “Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” — Soren Kierkegaard
91. “If you’re brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello.” — Paulo Coelho
92. “Only your determination and your strong desire will move you forward.” — Aurora Berill
93. “The unexamined life is not worth living.” — Socrates
94. “Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
95. “You can’t stay locked in your room and expect either you to find love or love to find you.” — Michael Bassey Johnson
96. “Don’t settle for what life gives you; make life better and build something.” — Ashton Kutcher
97. “I’m looking forward to the future, and feeling grateful for the past.” — Mike Rowe
98. “Even snails make progress. Just be sure your progress is in the direction you want to go.” — Richelle E. Goodrich
99. “Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.” — Kobe Bryant
100. “It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else” — Steven Hawking
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101. “Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened.” — Dr. Seuss
102. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” — Henry Ford
103. “Life imposes things on you that you can’t control, but you still have the choice of how you’re going to live through this.” — Celine Dion
104. “Set your goal and keep moving forward.” — Georges St-Pierre
105. “When you cease to dream you cease to live.” — Malcolm Forbes
106. “Whatever happens, I’ll just keep moving forward. Like an avalanche.” — Michelle Phan
107. “Live in the sunshine, swim the sea, drink the wild air.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
108. “Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.” — Stephen R. Covey
109. “What we were yesterday, we are not today and what we are going to be tomorrow, we are not today.” — Pooja Agnihotri
110. “Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.” — Mark Twain
111. “Reflect on what you do in a day. You may have never realized how some simple, harmless activities rob you of precious time.” — Vivek Naik
112. “Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.” — Buddha
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113. “Keep smiling, because life is a beautiful thing and there’s so much to smile about.” — Marilyn Monroe
114. “A year from now you may wish you had started today.” — Karen Lamb
115. “Maybe we tried to leave as many memories of ourselves with each other because we knew one day we wouldn’t be together anymore.” — Makoto Shinkai
116. “Our goals can only be reached through a vehicle of a plan, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is no other route to success.” — Pablo Picasso
117. “Life is like a coin. You can spend it any way you wish, but you only spend it once.” — Lillian Dickson
118. “Don’t be afraid if things seem difficult in the beginning. That’s only the initial impression. The important thing is not to retreat; you have to master yourself.” — Olga Korbut
119. “Quite often, young lady, it seems we’re not getting anywhere, when in fact we are.” — C.H. Smith
120. “The healthiest response to life is joy.” — Deepak Chopra
121. “Just keep moving forward and don’t give a damn about what anybody thinks. Do what you have to do, for you.” — Johnny Depp
122. “My mama always said, life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you’re gonna get.” — Forrest Gump
123. “In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” — Deepak Chopra
124. “You can’t start a new chapter in your life if you keep re-reading the last one.” — Suzy Kassem
125. “Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” — Helen Keller
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