Quotes on New Beginnings: In Work, Relationships, & Life

By Kelsey Schultz, Ph.D. Candidate
​Reviewed by Tchiki Davis, M.A., Ph.D.
New beginnings can be as wonderful as they are disquieting. Keep reading for inspiring quotes about finding beauty in new beginnings despite the discomfort of change.
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Starting anew brings a special kind of anxious anticipation (when it’s not bringing outright fear). Even when our circumstances are not what we want them to be, change can be scary. This is because our present circumstances, even when undesirable, are at least predictable, and predictability is something that humans and other mammals are far more comfortable with than stepping into the unknown (Grillion et al., 2006; Seidenbecher et al., 2016). 
However, as we’ve all likely experienced, new beginnings are often some of the most beautiful moments of our lives.

​Having inspiring quotes on new beginnings at the ready can help remind us of the beauty of change when we are feeling frightened or overwhelmed. Keep reading for a collection of quotes on new beginnings to comfort and inspire you.​
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Positive Quotes on New Beginnings

  • “Maybe the yes comes before the readiness. Maybe you say yes and then you become equipped to handle whatever is about to happen.” – Glennon Doyle
  • “No, this is not the beginning of a new chapter in my life; this is the beginning of a new book! That first book is already closed, ended, and tossed into the seas; this new book is newly opened, has just begun!”– C. Joybell
  • “Darkness must pass     A new day will come      And when the sun shines     It will shine out the clearer.” – JRR Tolkien
  • "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
  • “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” – Guy Finley
  • “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • “You are never too old to start over. Every day is a chance to make changes to create the life we want.” – Karon Waddell
  • “Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.” – Carl Bard
  • “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

Motivational Quotes for New Beginnings

  • “Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.” – Muhammad Ali
  • “We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.” – Joseph Campbell
  • “The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day, the next hour are lying ready for you, as perfect, as unspoiled, as if you had never wasted or misapplied a single moment in all your life. You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.” – Arnold Bennett
  • “It’s never too late to become who you want to be. I hope you live a life that you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start over.” – F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • “Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.” – Paulo Coelho
  • “Each bud that opens embraces becoming as if it has never happened before. Do you?” – Shellen Lubin
  • “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” – Alan Cohen
  • “Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can’t change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

Quotes for a New Beginning of a Relationship

  • “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin
  • "Never feel guilty for starting again." – Rupi Kaur
  • “And suddenly you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” – Meister Eckhart
  • “The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure.” – Joseph Campbell
  • “One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.” – George Eliot
  • “New beginnings no matter how scary are worth it for all the beauty and adventure they bring” – Alice Tyszka
  • “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” – Desmond Tutu
  • “My soul is at peace knowing that I am supported, loved, and awakening to a new beginning in my life.” – Robin S. Baker
  • “Now I've gone for too long     Living like I'm not alive     So I'm going to start over tonight     Beginning with you and I” – Hayley Williams
  • “It takes courage to forgive love and allow yourself to embrace it again, its like discovering wings you thought you've lost” – Micheline Jean Louis

New Beginnings Quotes for Work​

  • “You must learn to stop thinking in terms of beginnings and endings, successes and failures, and begin to treat everything in your life as a learning experience instead of a proving one.” – Guy Finley
  • “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart
  • “Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” – Ralph Blum
  • “Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not to be seen as simply another day to put in time.” – Catherine Pulsifer
  • "You are never too old to start over. Every day is a chance to make changes to create the life we want." – Karon Waddell 
  • “When you do something new, there is always some uncertainty. Push through it. Maintain your vision of what lies beyond your fear.” – Todd Stocker
  • “Every day is a new beginning. I can take advantage of the opportunity and try again.” – Mykisha Mac
  • “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato

Quotes on New Beginnings in Business

  • “When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” – Chinese Proverb
  • “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
  • “Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah Winfrey
  • “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
  • “Letting there be room for not knowing is the most important thing of all. When there's a big disappointment, we don't know if that's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a great adventure. Life is like that. We don't know anything. We call something bad; we call it good. But really we just don't know.” – Pema Chödrön
  • “Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.” – Anthony Liccione
  • “Begin today. Declare out loud to the universe that you are willing to let go of struggle and eager to learn through joy.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • “Don't let the mist of circumstances block your imagination and stop you from making new beginnings.” – Balroop Singh

Short Quotes on New Beginnings

  • “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.” – Richie Norton
  • “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?” – L.M. Montgomery
  • “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
  • “I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.” – A.G.
  • “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” – Rumi
  • “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” – Germany Kent
  • “You raze the old to raise the new.” – Justina Chen
  • “Morning will come, it has no choice.” – Marty Rubin
  • “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset.” – Richie Norton“
  • Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.” – Arthur Ashe

Cute Quotes About New Beginnings

  • “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss
  • “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton
  • "I make so many beginnings there never will be an end." – Louisa May Alcott
  • "The direction you choose to face determines whether you’re standing at the end or the beginning of a road." – Richelle E. Goodrich
  • “That last page turned is a perfect excuse to write a whole new book.” – Toni Sorenson
  • “Where should I start? I texted my old Jiko this question, and she wrote back this: 現在地で始まるべき. You should start where you are.” – Ruth Ozeki
  • “A pessimist is someone who has forgotten the joy of beginning.” – Marty Rubin

Quotes for Beginning a New Year

  • “A fresh start. A new chapter in life waiting to be written. New questions to be asked, embraced, and loved. Answers to be discovered and then lived in this transformative year of delight and self-discovery.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” – Germany Kent
  • “And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.” – Rainer Maria Rilke
  • “I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey – a journey that requires a plan.” – Vivian Jokotade
  • “The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.” – Malcolm Gladwell
  • “For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.” – T.S. Eliot
  • “It is not a garment I cast off this day, but a skin that I tear with my own hands. Nor is it a thought I leave behind me, but a heart made sweet with hunger and with thirst. Yet I cannot tarry longer. The sea that calls all things unto her calls me, and I must embark. For to stay, though the hours burn in the night, is to freeze and crystallize and be bound in a mould.” – Kahlil Gibran

Famous Quotes About New Beginnings

  • “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
  • “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
  • “The only way around is through.” – Robert Frost
  • “Every moment is a new beginning.” – Elie Wiesel
  • “The beginning is always today.”– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  • “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
  • “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse
  • “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca
  • “Life is a progress, and not a station.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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