Quotes on Moving On

How do geese know when to fly to the sun? Who tells them the seasons? How do we, humans know when it is time to move on? As with the migrant birds, so surely with us, there is a voice within if only we would listen to it, that tells us certainly when to go forth into the unknown.

Never put a question mark where God has put a period. When something is over and done, let it go and move on to the next chapter of your life.

We are not a failure just because we fail at something. Nobody is a failure unless they quit trying!

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

I'm convinced that we Black women possess a special indestructible strength that allows us to not only get down, but to get up, to get through, and to get over.

Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?

If you fall behind, run faster. Never give up, never surrender, and rise up against the odds.

Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.

I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved and where all your yesteryears are buried deep, leave it any way except a slow way, leave it the fastest way you can. Never turn back and never believe that an hour you remember is a better hour because it is dead. Passed years seem safe ones, vanquished ones, while the future lives in a cloud, formidable from a distance.

It is foolish to tear one's hair in grief, as though sorrow would be made less by baldness.

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.

Hanging onto resentment is letting someone you despise live rent-free in your head.

Motivation gets you going and habit gets you there.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.

Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values.

Never give up. When your heart becomes tired, just walk with your legs - but move on.