Article image

13 Encouraging Quotes About Starting Over

We have so many ways of marking new beginnings: a new year on the calendar, a wedding, the birth of a child. Life is full of monumental fresh starts, but the truth is that new beginnings can happen any time, anywhere.

At any moment in the day we can choose to take a deep breath and set an intention to do things differently, to make good choices, to appreciate the people in our lives. You can do it right now. Breathe in. Breathe out.

And if you find, as you travel down your path, that you’d like another fresh start, go ahead and make one. Make as many as you’d like. Fresh starts are a renewable resource. Granted, pressing reset isn’t always easy, which is why we’ve collected these 13 encouraging quotes about starting over.

Every day is a new opportunity to begin again. Every day is your birthday.
Dalai Lama

Share Quote

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

Share Quote

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

Share Quote

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

Share Quote

The beginning is always today.
Mary Shelley

Share Quote

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

Share Quote

I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible.
Oprah Winfrey

Share Quote

Rock bottom is the end of what wasn’t true enough. Begin again and build something Truer.
Glennon Doyle

Share Quote

There is always an opportunity to start again and again, if the old ways were not working last year, look for better ways of doing it in the new year and start again afresh.
Bamigboye Olurotimi

Share Quote

I love that we get a new day … A new opportunity to move our lives in a positive direction … Let's be unencumbered by yesterday's nonsense … a fresh start … Take a deep breath, smile, and start again.
Steve Maraboli

Share Quote

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

Share Quote

Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one.
Brad Paisley

Share Quote

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.
C.S. Lewis

Share Quote

Featured image credit: Nadiia Ploshchenko/ Unsplash

Author image
About the Author
April Dávila
April Dávila is a lover of words. Her debut novel "142 Ostriches" was released in 2020.
Play more header background
Play more icon
Daily Question
Fill in the blank: "A ___ is, as it were, a second self." - Cicero

More Inspiration

happiness theme icon

The gratification comes in the doing, not in the results.

separator icon
James Dean
motivation theme icon

Open to whatever you experience without fighting. Let it be present just as it is. Let go of the battle.

separator icon
Jack Kornfield
hope theme icon

I can't give you a recipe for success, but I can give you a recipe for failure: try to please everybody.

separator icon
Frank Langella
love theme icon

Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.

separator icon
William Shakespeare
wisdom theme icon

I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it.

separator icon
Jane Austen
happiness theme icon

When you enter those places of trust, or power, dream a little before you think.

separator icon
Toni Morrison
motivation theme icon

The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it.

separator icon
Chief Joseph
hope theme icon

Do not whine... Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.

separator icon
Joan Didion
love theme icon

If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it’s worth considering.

separator icon
Peter Diamandis
wisdom theme icon

You mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.

separator icon
F. Scott Fitzgerald
happiness theme icon

Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.

separator icon
George Herbert