Quotes on Fresh Start

And now we welcome the new year, full of things that have never been

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.

There can be no peace of mind in love, since the advantage one has secured is never anything but a fresh starting-point for future desires.

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

Certein bodies... become luminous when heated. Their luminosity disappears after some time, but the capacity of becoming luminous afresh through heat is restored to them by the action of a spark, and also by the action of radium.

In every encounter we either give life or we drain it; there is no neutral exchange.

The foundation of a financial fresh start actually has nothing to do with money or specific financial dos and don'ts.

Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.

Forgiveness is giving up all hope of having had a better past.

The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start.

Mercy can purge the soul of sin, making room for a fresh start. Truth is vital in order that we have an unvarying standard by which to determine what we are to be and to do and what we are to rid ourselves of. All the cardinal virtues, therefore, carry their own intrinsic as well as outward reward. A merciful man does do good to his own soul.

The grace of forgiveness, because God Himself has paid the price, is a Christian distinctive and stands splendidly against our hate-filled, unforgiving world. God's forgiveness gives us a fresh start.

I am 67, but I'm not too old to make a fresh start.

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

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

True education is a kind of never ending story — a matter of continual beginnings, of habitual fresh starts, of persistent newness.

I don’t live in either my past or my future. I’m interested only in the present. If you can concentrate always on the present, you’ll be a happy man. Life will be a party for you, a grand festival, because life is the moment we’re living now.

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. (Jo March)