Letting Go Quotes that Will Inspire You to Move On

Filed in Quote by Dynamicenergy on May 18, 2022

– Letting Go Quotes –

Holding on to the past can only hinder your future. These letting go quotes will assist you in letting go of negative emotions. It’s difficult to let go of things that are important to us, but we must learn to let go in order to heal.

Letting Go Quotes

Below are some quotes about moving on and letting go that I hope may inspire and center you in your life. Great things can be accomplished and your life can be thoroughly enjoyed with this newfound calm and lightness.

1. “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,

2. “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,

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

4. “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

5. “If letting go, if letting people and things work themselves out in the way that they needed to without your help was the most important thing, then it was also the hardest.” ― Deb Caletti

6. “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

7. “Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye.” – Beyonce Knowles

8. “If you spend your time hoping someone will suffer the consequences for what they did to your heart, then you’re allowing them to hurt you a second time in your mind.” ― Shannon L. Alder

9. “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

10. “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

11. “I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.” ―Jeffrey McDaniel

12. “Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.” ― Tony Schwartz

13. “Being different is a revolving door in your life where secure people enter and insecure exit.” ― Shannon L. Alder

14. “If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.” – Shannon L. Alder

15. “The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go.” ― Steve Maraboli

16. “Love is never supposed to hurt. Love is supposed to heal, to be your haven from misery, to make living fucking worthwhile.” ― Mia Asher

17. “The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.” ― FaraazKazi

18. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” ― Steve Maraboli

19. “There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.” ― Terry Pratchett

Moving on Quotes

A split you didn’t expect, a friendship you thought would continue forever, a career failure, a furry buddy you weren’t ready to let go of, or loved ones taken too soon can make moving on difficult.

20. “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

21. “Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger” ― Sara Evans

22. “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.

23. “I’m guilty of giving people more chances than they deserve but when I’m done, I’m done.” ― Turcois Ominek

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

25. “I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It’s okay if you have to leave us. It’s okay if you want to stop fighting.” ― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

26. “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

Love What You Do Quotes

Your work will take up a significant portion of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to produce outstanding work. And loving what you do is the only way to produce outstanding work.

27. “One of the best times for figuring out who you are and what you really want out of life? Right after a break-up.” ― Mandy Hale,

28. “If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go.” ― Steve Maraboli

29. “Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.” ― Gerald G. Jampolsky

30. “Letting go. Everyone talks about it like it’s the easiest thing. Unfurl your fingers one by one until your hand is open. But my hand has been clenched into a fist for three years now; it’s frozen shut.” ― Gayle Forman

31. “The truth was, he now belonged only to my past, and it was time I begin to accept it, as much as it hurt to do so.” ― Tammara Webber

32. “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

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

34. “The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.” ― C. JoyBell C.

35. “Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are.” ― TurcoisOminek

36. “No matter how much suffering you went through, you never wanted to let go of those memories.” ― Haruki Murakami

37. “When you leave, weary of me, without a word I shall gently let you go.” ― Kim Sowol

38. “Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will… but then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all. Imagining isn’t perfect. You can’t get all the way inside someone else… But imagining being someone else, or the world being something else, is the only way in. It is the machine that kills the fascists” ― John Green

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

40. “Sometimes, we have to fight for what we love and care about. Other times, we have to find strength to let go of the things we love most” – Anonymous

41. “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

42. “You must be strong enough to know that love will come to you when you are ready. You must be strong enough to know when to say goodbye, and know that letting go is not weak.” – Marisa Donnelly

43. “It is tough to let go of someone you can’t live without. But living with someone who can live without you, is much worse.” – Anon

44. “Sometimes people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.”- Jackson Kiddard

45. “It’s tough to let go and move on from bad relationships, but so is every other good thing in life.” – Anon

46. “Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.” – Mandy Hale

47. “You don’t need strength to let go of something. What you really need is understanding.” – Guy Finley

48. “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

49. “I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.”—Ashley Rickards

50. “One of the happiest moments in life is when you find the courage to let go of what you cannot change.” – Anon

51. “Anything you can’t control is teaching you how to let go.” – Jackson Kiddard

52. “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.” –C. JoyBell C.

53. “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

54. “You have to let go of who you were to become who you will be.” – Candace Bushnell

55. “At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.”- Elizabeth Gilbert

56. “Starting today, I need to forget what’s gone, appreciate what still remains and look forward to what’s coming next” – Anon

57. “We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.”– Leo F. Buscaglia

58. “To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.”– Jack Kornfield

59. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”– Raymond Lindquist

60. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”– Raymond Lindquist

61. You might also like these disappointment quotes to inspire you to bounce back.

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

63. “You’ve got to make a conscious choice every day to shed the old – whatever “the old” means for you.” – Sarah Ban Breathnach

64. “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

65. “Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.” – Seneca

66. “I do a good job of staying positive and just moving on.” – Katie Taylor

67. “I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.” – Waris Dirie

It is What it is Quotes

This listed quote are given to encourage you and gives you more energy less you give up on what is important to your life.

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

69. “Moving on is easy. It’s staying moved on that’s trickier.”― Katerina Stoykova Klemer

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

71. “You don’t have to let that one thing be the thing that defines you.”― Jojo Moyes

72. “There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.”– Jessica Hatchigan

73. “Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”– Bryant McGill

74. “Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energy moving forward together towards an answer.”– Denis Waitley

75. “To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.” – Dave Pelzer

76. “Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.”― Robert Brault

77. “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

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

79. “I welcomed who I was and left behind who I was not.”― David Elliott

80. “Our scars make us who we are. Wear them proudly, and move forward.”― Jane Linfoot

81. “You can’t expect to move forward if your emergency break is on.” ― Angela Cecilia

82. “Don’t go through life; grow through life.”― Eric Butterworth

83. “Don’t hang on to the past and don’t look on to the future, focus on your present and present will build your future, cover your past and make your present worth a while”― Meeran W. Malik

84. “No boundary or barrier surrounds the heart of a person that loves their self and others.”― Shannon L. Alder

85. “Instead of thinking I am losing something when I clear clutter, I dwell on what I might gain.”― Lisa J. Shultz

86. “Why let go of yesterday? Because yesterday has already let go of you.”― Steve Maraboli

87. “Sometimes you hold on to what’s left,

88. “Sometimes you let go to start afresh.”― Sanhita Baruah

89. “Convince yourself everyday that you are worthy of a good life. Let go of stress, breathe. Stay positive, all is well.”― Germany Kent

90. “There is absolutely no beauty in holding onto something that you’re supposed to let go of.”― Sai Pradeep

91. “Sometimes letting go is braver than holding on until you break.”― Rebekah Crane

92. “Life is like a river, if you cannot let go of the past, it will drag you down the stream.”― Amit Ray

93. “‎All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”― Henry Havelock Ellis

94. “Letting go is also a matter of self-worth.”― Efrat Cybulkiewicz

95. “The greatest win is walking away and choosing not to engage in drama and toxic energy at all.”― Lalah Delia

96. “By accepting the process of letting go, we make people and things that we can’t stay with forever a part of our history.”― Dr Prem Jagyasi

Moving on Quotes Relationships

Almost anybody can tell you numerous stories about the sorrow they felt in those moments, whether it was a shattered heart, a breakup with a friend, job loss, or death. This quote will help fix that.

97. “You only struggle because you’re ready to grow but aren’t willing to let go.”― Drew Gerald

98. “Let the things of long ago drift away on the water.”― Alan Brennert

99. “It’s the way you fall you. Gotta let yourself go.”― Melville Shavelson

100. “You can’t hold on to the past and expect to grow as a human being.”― Marty Rubin

101. “Sometimes the only way to get a grip is by learning to let go.”― Curtis Tyrone Jones
102. “A mistake is only a mistake if you dwell on it. Let go and forgive.”― Akiroq Brost
103. “Sometimes love means letting go when you want to hold on tighter.” – Melissa Marr

104. “Letting go is an energetic process that moves us in a different flow of reality beyond the illusion and into more of a free-flowing liberation space.” – Christine McCormick Day

105. “Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.” – Bryant H. McGill

106. “Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness.” – Nhat Hanh

107. “The greatest thing is, at any moment, to be willing to give up who we are in order to become all that we can be.” – Max De Pree

108. “Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu

109. “Accept what is, let go of what was, have faith in what will be.” – Sonia Ricotti

110. “There are two ways to be. One is at war with reality and the other is at peace.” – Byron Katie

111. “Let go and just do your own work.” – Ajahn Chah

112. “Let go of becoming but never let go of taking action. Stop expecting and start living.” – Maxime Lagacé

113. “The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

114. “Life moves on and so should we.” – Spencer Johnson

115. “A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.” – Henry David Thoreau

116. “Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.” – Jack Kornfield

117. “Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.” – Oprah Winfrey

118. “Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass – It’s about learning how to dance in the rain.”– Vivian Greene

119. “The past always looks better than it was because it isn’t here.”– Finley Peter Dunne

120. “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”– Maria Robinson

121. “It’s never too late to be who you might have been.”–George Eliot

122. “Today is the first day of the rest of your life.”– Unknown

People Come and Go Quotes

People come and go but life still goes on, motivate your life with this interesting quote which will put a smile on your face .

123. “People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.” – Thich Nhat Hanh

124. “If you’ve fallen down, today is the day you can get back up and try again.” – Amelie Chance

125. “Life only demands from you the strength you possess.” – Dag Hammarskjold

126. “Some things are just never meant to be, no matter how much we wish they were.” – Unknown

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

128. “Your past does not equal your future.”– Anthony Robbins

129. “Sometimes, you have to let things go. Sometimes, you have to stop caring for a minute.”– Trina Etmanskie

130. “It is by giving the freedom to the other, that is by letting go, we gain our own freedom back.”– Aleksandra Ninkovic

131. “A bridge can still be built, while the bitter waters are flowing beneath.”– Anthony Liccione

132. “Just remember, when you should grab something, grab it; when you should let go, let go.”– Unknown

133. “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

134. “Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.”– Agnostic Zetetic

135. “Letting go is not getting rid of memories. Memories will stay; they always do. Letting go is making sure that the pain associated with the memories goes away.”– Arti Honrao

136. “There are things that we never want to let go of, people we never want to leave behind. But keep in mind that letting go isn’t the end of the world, it’s the beginning of a new life.”– Unknown

137. “When we go back into the past and rake up all the troubles we’ve had, we end up reeling and staggering through life. Stability and peace of mind come by living in the moment.”– Pam W. Vredevelt

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

139. “To wander is to be alive.” – Roman Payne

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

147. “Even if you fall on your face, you’re still moving forward.” — Victor Kiam

148. “Forget what hurt you, but never forget what it taught you.” — Shannon L. Alder

149. “You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.” ― Steve Maraboli

150. “In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.” — Deepak Chopra

151. “Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future.” — Daphne Rose Kingma

You are Worth it Quotes

We’ve prepared this collection of inspirational know your worth quotes to help you appreciate your true value.

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

153. “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.” — Tao Te Ching

154. “If you want to fly in the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go of the past that drags you down.” — Amit Ray

155. “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

156. “I think that the power is the principle. The principle of moving forward, as though you have the confidence to move forward, eventually gives you confidence when you look back and see what you’ve done.” — Robert Downey Jr.

157. “There’s a victory in letting go of your expectations.” — Mike White

158. “Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.” — Guy Finley

159. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.” — Hermann Hesse

160. “What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?” — Brene Brown

161. “The point of human evolution is adapting to circumstance. Not letting go of the old, but adapting it, is necessary.” — Sonali Bendre

162. “You can live your life angry, bitter, mad at somebody or even guilty, not letting go of your own mistakes, but you won’t receive the good things God has in store.” — Joel Osteen

163. “Even as kids reach adolescence, they need more than ever for us to watch over them. Adolescence is not about letting go. It’s about hanging on during a very bumpy ride.” — Ron Taffel

164. “Letting go helps us to live in a more peaceful state of mind and helps restore our balance. It allows others to be responsible for themselves and for us to take our hands off situations that do not belong to us. This frees us from unnecessary stress.” — Melody Beattie

165. “Relationships are eternal. The ‘separation’ is another chapter in the relationship. Often, letting go of the old form of the relationship becomes a lesson in pure love much deeper than any would have learned had the couple stayed together.” — Marianne Williamson

166. “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” – Joseph Campbell

167. “It doesn’t take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.” – J. C. Watts

168. “Let go of yesterday. Let today be a new beginning and be the best that you can, and you’ll get to where God wants you to be.” – Joel Osteen

169. “There’s a trick to the Graceful Exit. It begins with the vision to recognize when a job, a life stage, a relationship is over – and to let go. It means leaving what’s over without denying its value.” – Ellen Goodman

170. “It’s hard to be clear about who you are when you are carrying around a bunch of baggage from the past. I’ve learned to let go and move more quickly into the next place.” – Angelina Jolie

171. “People can be more forgiving than you can imagine. But you have to forgive yourself. Let go of what’s bitter and move on.” – Bill Cosby

Time to Move on Quotes

Hopefully, these quotations about letting go of the past from historical figures who know a thing or two about moving on from life’s challenges can provide you with the eternal advice you require.

172. “Sometimes you have to take a step back to move forward.” – Erika Taylor

173. “Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a point at which you finally decide to let go.” – Wilfred James Dolor

174. “It’s sad but sometimes moving on with the rest of you life starts with goodbye.” – Carrie Underwood

175. “Don’t go back to something God has already rescued you from.” – Mandy Hale

176. “You are not giving up when you let go, you are moving on, there is a big difference.” – Catherine Pulsifer

177. “Offering yourself forgiveness and compassion for what has happened will help you to let go of the past so that you can move more fully into the future.” – Alison Cardy

178. ” … many of us refuse to “let go,” and we spend our lives fighting battles we will not win.” – Paul David Tripp

179. “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” – Alexander Graham Bell

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

181. “Why do people persist in a dissatisfying relationship, unwilling either to work toward solutions or end it and move on? It’s because they know changing will lead to the unknown, and most people believe that the unknown will be much more painful than what they’re already experiencing.” – Anthony Robbins

182. “What feels like the end is often the beginning.” – Anonymous

183. “If the past is not resolved, future relationships will suffer. Let your heart heal, before you open the door to another.” – Leon Brown

184. “Letting go means freedom from unpleasant memories.” – Remez Sasson

185. “Letting go brings a feeling of lightness and freedom, like taking a heavy rock off your shoulders.” – Remez Sasson

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

187. “I have realized taking a stand is tough, but what’s tougher is maintaining it and letting go of all those who doubt your intent.” — Rhea Chakraborty

186. “Letting go of things and not being afraid of being ridiculous or over the top – I think that’s the main thing for me to work on.” — Charlotte Gainsbourg

187. “By letting go of my fears and concerns, I’ve gained so much happiness and freedom. With that freedom I’ve also gained confidence.” — Sabrina Claudio

188. “I feel like, every single decision I make and every single album I make, it’s all about letting go. Letting go of the past and just getting on with it.” — John Grant

189. “Most people believe that results matter. The idea that results matter is one that you have to keep letting go of. And most of the time, I believe it.” — Russell Simmons

190. “Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or ‘mind traffic’ that gets in the way of just whatever is between you and space and consciousness.” — Trudie Styler

191. “As you become aware of what has robbed you of the purity of an innocent mind, a clear heart and a strong body, you will be deeply served by letting go of those familiar limitations.” — Debbie Ford

192. “So we’re in this process of letting go of our own attachments to our physical forms and to the people we love, and… basically everything. Life is like this one big process of letting go.” — Adrianne Lenker

193. “I think anybody who has had a long relationship and has had a really hard time letting go, wants to feel like it’s not all for naught, and it’s meaningful, because it makes you who you are.” — Rashida Jones

194. “A huge problem we face when we’re in need is giving up our intuition and blindly following instruction. Letting go works when we are following our hearts, but not so well when we are following a leader.” — Tara Stiles

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