Starting Over quotes
186 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over."
"Too often, our minds are so burdened because of the mistakes we have made that we do not take the time to forgive ourselves and others and start over again."
"The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come."
"I don't have very many regrets, not because I lived a perfect life but because life is a bunch of rolling hills, not mountains, or speed bumps instead of stop signs, and so you come to a situation and it's neither good or bad, it just is, and what it means to you is what's your take on it. But the second part of the equation is what are you going to do about it. A lot of times I'm completely wrong, but all you do is back up and start over."
"Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs."
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"I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over."
"We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning"
"I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else."
"Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows."
"Everyone who got where he is has had to begin where he was."
"Anyone desperate enough for suicide... should be desperate enough to go to creative extremes to solve problems: elope at midnight, stow away on the boat to New Zealand and start over, do what they always wanted to do but were afraid to try."
"When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again."
"If you were starting over today, what would you do differently? Whatever your answer, start doing it now."
"But not forgiving yourself often becomes the root of severe self-loathing extreme self hatred and intense inhibitions. It will be next to impossible to truly start over when you feel unforgivable."
"It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over."
"It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it."
"We attain freedom as we let go of whatever does not reflect our magnificence. A bird cannot fly high or far with a stone tied to its back. But release the impediment, and we are free to soar to unprecedented heights."
"Just know that it’s fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over. That’s the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money… and then get angry at their boss."
"If I could start over today, I would choose literature again. If the answers exist in the world or in the universe, I still think that's where we're going to find them."
"I'm really much more like Phil Potter from [the 1979 film] Starting Over. People do think I'm the Bandit [from Smokey and the Bandit ], and I'm a lot more serious than that."
"I ain't never found no place for me to fit. Seem like all I do is start over. It ain't nothing to find no starting place in the world. You just start from where you find yourself."
"God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore."
"The search for pleasure is circular, repetitive, atemporal. The variety seeking of the spectator, the thrill hunter, the sexually promiscuous, always ends in the same place. It has an end. It comes to the end and has to start over. It is not a journey and return, but a closed cycle, a locked room, a cell."
"You know what I'm doing starting 1st November? Jesus Christ Superstar."
"Don't mourn over your bad decisions. Just start overcoming them with good ones."
