120 Best New Beginning Quotes for a New Chapter that Unfolds

New beginnings are filled with excitement and anticipation. They bring with them the potential for positive change and the opportunity to start anew. A fresh beginning can be the start of something special or the beginning of a journey that can lead to something even better. It can be the beginning of a new career, a new relationship, a new hobby, or a new life.

No matter what the new beginning is, it can be an exciting and rewarding experience.

120 Best New Beginning Quotes

New beginnings can also be a time of reflection and personal growth. As you embark on a new path, it can be a great time to look back on your journey thus far and appreciate what you have achieved.

It is also a time to look ahead and consider what lies ahead and how you can best prepare yourself for the new journey.

40 Quotes About New Beginning

1. “This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.” – Taylor Swift

2. “Every moment is a fresh beginning.” – T.S. Eliot

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

4. “All discarded lovers should be given a second chance, but with somebody else.” – Mae West

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

6. “No one can ever take your memories from you – each day is a new beginning, make good memories every day.” – Catherine Pulsifer

7. “Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now.” – Paulo Coelho

8. “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot

9. “I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary. I had simply failed to notice how extraordinary it was. Likewise, I never imagined that home might be something I would miss.” – Ransom Riggs

10. “Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes.” – Richie Norton

11. “The chief beauty about time is that you cannot waste it in advance. The next year, the next day and 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

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

13. “You can’t be that kid standing at the top of the water slide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute.” – Tina Fey

14. “The beginning is always today.” – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

15. “Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.” – Mandy Hale

16. “You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way!” – Dr. Seuss

17. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill

18. “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

19. “Even seasonal situations can bring with them lessons that last a lifetime. If the love doesn’t last, it prepares you for the one that will.” – Mandy Hale

20. “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

21. “You can’t build a reputation for what you are going to do.” – Henry Ford

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

23. “But there’s a beginning in an end, you know? It’s true that you can’t reclaim what you had, but you can lock it up behind you. Start fresh.” – Alexandra Bracken

24. “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

25. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato

26. “What you’re supposed to do when you don’t like a thing is change it. If you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. Don’t complain.” – Maya Angelou

27. “Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; old things have passed away; behold, all things have become new.” – 2 Corinthians 5:17

28. “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

29. “Nourish beginnings, let us nourish beginnings. Not all things are blest, but the seeds of all things are blest. The blessing is in the seed.” – Muriel Rukeyser

30. “You raze the old to raise the new.” – Justina Chen Headley

31. “The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are.” – JP Morgan

32. “I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world.” – Rainer Maria Rilke

33. “You can learn new things at any time in your life if you’re willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.” – Barbara Shur

34. “Be willing to be a beginner every single morning.” – Meister Eckhart

35. “Rather than turning the page, it’s much easier to just throw the book away.” – Anthony Liccione

36. “Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.” – Desmond Tutu

37. “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

38. “Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs

39. “It’s a wise man who understands that every day is a new beginning, because boy, how many mistakes do you make in a day?” – Mel Gibson

40. “Morning will come, it has no choice.” – Marty Rubin

40 Best New Beginning Quotes

41. “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

42. “It’s a funny thing about life, once you begin to take note of the things you are grateful for, you begin to lose sight of the things that you lack.” – Germany Kent

43. “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

44. “Forgiving is not forgetting; it’s actually remembering–remembering and not using your right to hit back. It’s a second chance for a new beginning. And the remembering part is particularly important. Especially if you do not want to repeat what happened.” – Desmond Tutu

45. “I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me.” – A.G

46. “Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be.” – Marsha Petrie Sue

47. “There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.” – Louis L’Amour

48. “Each day is a new beginning, the chance to do with it what should be done and not be seen as simply another day to put in the time.” – Catherine Pulsifer

49. “Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go they merely determine where you start.” – Nido Qubein

50. “All great beginnings start in the dark when the moon greets you to a new day at midnight.” – Shannon L. Alder

51. “Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew.” – Lauren DeStefano

52. “A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.” – Bruce Springsteen

53. “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” – Dolly Parton

54. “Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.” – Ralph Blum

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

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

57. “Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” – Germany Kent

58. “It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela

59. “The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.” – Steve Jobs

60. “Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.” – Herman Hesse

61. “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” – C. S. Lewis

62. “Keep on beginning and failing. Each time you fail, start all over again, and you will grow stronger until you have accomplished a purpose – not the one you began with perhaps, but one you’ll be glad to remember.” – Anne Sullivan

63. “Morning not only forgives, but it also forgets.” – Marty Rubin

64. “Dreams are renewable. No matter what our age or condition, there are still untapped possibilities within us and new beauty waiting to be born.” – Dale Turner

65. “Life is progress, and not a station.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

66. “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

67. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

68. “And suddenly you just know it’s time to start something new and trust the magic of beginnings.” – Meister Eckhart

69. “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

70. “Success is not final. Failure is not fatal. It’s the courage to continue that count.” – Winston Churchill

71. “There are as many worlds as there are kinds of days, and as an opal changes its colors and its fire to match the nature of a day, so do I.” – John Steinbeck

72. “When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.” – Chinese proverb

73. “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

74. “Be still in the presence of the Lord and wait patiently for Him to act!” – Anonymous

75. “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela

76. “We all want to break our orbits, float like a satellite gone wild in space, and run the risk of disintegration. We all want to take our lives in our own hands and hurl them out among the stars.” – David Bottoms

77. “Let’s forget the baggage of the past and make a new beginning.” – Shahbaz Sharif

78. “Every day is a chance to begin again. Don’t focus on the failures of yesterday, start today with positive thoughts and expectations.” – Catherine Pulsifer

79. “You were taught, with regard to your former way of life, to put off your old self, which is being corrupted by its deceitful desires; to be made new in the attitude of your minds; and to put on the new self, created to be like God in true righteousness and holiness.” – Ephesians 4:22–24

80. “The beginning is the most important part of the work.” – Plato

40 Inspiring New Beginning quotes

81. “And there’s always a way to begin with.” – Autumn Doughton

82. “The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all.” – Josiyah Martin

83. “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” – Buddha

84. “The only way around is through.” – Robert Frost

85. “Forget everything you’ve done. Start over.” – Marty Rubin

86. “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

87. “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” – Billie Jean King

88. “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

89. “Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.” – Jonathan Lockwood Huie

90. “Surrender . . .sacrificing my life or suffering in order to change what needs to be changed” – Rick Warren

91. “No matter how hard the past is, you can always begin again.” – Catherine Pulsifer

92. “If you’re reading this, I hope God opens incredible doors for your life this year. Greatness is upon you. You must believe it though.” – Germany Kent

93. “That last page turned is a perfect excuse to write a whole new book.” – Toni Sorenson

94. “Everything begins at the beginning, and quite often the beginning begins when you shift your mind in a new direction.” – Louie Herron

95. “New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.” – Lao Tzu

96. “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

97. “Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.” – Alan Cohen

98. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma

99. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

100. “I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end.” – Louisa May Alcott

101. “Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.” – Prince

102. “One can begin so many things with a new person – even begin to be a better man.” – George Eliot

103. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” – George Bernard Shaw

104. “If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.” – Rumi

105. “Life is about change, sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.” – Kristin Kreuk

106. “Forget the former things; do not dwell on the past. See, I am doing a new thing! Now it springs up; do you not perceive it? I am making a way in the wilderness and streams in the wasteland.” – Isaiah 43:18-19

107. “In the oddity or maybe the miracle of life, the roots of something new frequently lie in the decaying husks of something old.” – Craig D. Lounsbrough

108. “From the end spring new beginnings.” – Pliny the Elder

109. “The night taught me never to fear the dark times, by giving way to the dawn of a new day.” – Michael Bassey Johnson

110. “Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new.” – Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

111. “When you feel like you have been hit, dig deep and hit back. Rock bottom is not your end; it is your beginning.” – Christine Evangelou

112. “The darkest hours bring the most light.” – Dominic Riccitello

113. “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

114. “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

115. “Don’t pass on your passions, to settle in the stale normality. Endure. Strive. Ensure.” – Anthony Liccione

116. “The more I stepped away from darkness, the less it felt like home.” – Mitali Meelan

117. “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

118. “Sometimes we can only find our true direction when we let the wind of change carry us” – Mimi Novic

119. “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

120. “There is always a new beginning…Doors are unlimited, always open, if one closes and that moment the other opens..” – Vandana Agarwal

7 Efficacious Ways to Handle Sudden Change in Life

Change is an inevitable part of life. We all experience change in different ways, but ultimately, it is something that must be embraced and managed in order to move forward and grow.

We will look at how to cope when faced with difficult changes. Here are the 7 most potent techniques to deal with change in your or your loved one’s life.

1. Acknowledge Your Feelings: Allow yourself to feel your emotions. It’s okay to feel scared, overwhelmed, or anxious.

3. Focus on the Positive: Change often brings new opportunities. Think about the potential benefits of the change.

4. Reach Out for Support: Talk to someone you trust about your feelings. You don’t have to face the change alone.

5. Take Small Steps: Break the change down into manageable pieces. Focus on one step at a time.

6. Practice Self-Care: Take time to relax and do something you enjoy. Eat healthy and exercise to help manage stress.

7. Celebrate Your Successes: Celebrate even small successes as you adjust to the change. This will help you stay focused and motivated.