New beginnings can be daunting and exciting – a chance to start something new. As the possibilities for this new beginning unfold, it can bring with it both optimism and anxiety.

When you find yourself at the end of one season and are faced with the uncertainty that comes with the beginning of something new, it helps to draw strength from the wisdom that has come before us.

This source of strength can come in the form of inspiring words about new beginnings from leaders and thinkers throughout history.

Their words encourage us to take courage and faith as we embark on this next chapter of life’s journey.

Here are 100 quotes about new beginnings to help launch you into living your best life in the new season ahead!

100 Quotes, Sayings & Instagram Captions About New Beginnings

  1. Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step. -Muhammad Ali
  2. Every sunset is an opportunity to reset. Every sunrise begins with new eyes. -Richie Norton
  3. Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing. -Mandy Hale
  4. The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper and re-imagines the world. -Malcolm Gladwell
  5. Every moment is a fresh beginning. –T.S. Eliot
  6. Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end. -Seneca
  7. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. – Guy Finley
  8. 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
  9. If you wish to be happy right from the beginning of your day, then it is about time to leave behind your past. –Lorin Hopper
  10. “Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet? -L.M. Montgomery
  11. Every day is a new beginning. Treat it that way. Stay away from what might have been, and look at what can be. –Marsha Petrie Sue
  12. You can’t build a reputation for what you are going to do. -Henry Ford
  13. Let’s forget the baggage of the past and make a new beginning. –Shahbaz Sharif
  14. No one can ever take your memories from you – each day is a new beginning, make good memories every day. –Catherine Pulsifer
  15. And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were. –Rainer Maria Rilke
  16. 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
  17. Every day is a fresh beginning, Every morn is the world made new. –Sarah Chauncey Woolsey
  18. “Every moment is a fresh beginning. -T.S. Eliot
  19. We look at the coming of a new beginning like we look at the coming of babies we never considered aborting. Hopeful. -Darnell Lamont Walker
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. 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
  23. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. The beginning makes the conditions perfect. -Alan Cohen
  24. I am learning to love the sound of my feet walking away from things not meant for me. -A.G.
  25. One can begin so many things with a new person – even begin to be a better man. -George Eliot
  26. 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
  27. It doesn’t matter what your present circumstances look like, today is a brand new day, and God wants to do a new thing in your life and in your relationship with Him every day. -Joel Osteen
  28. 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 Sher
  29. Today is a new day. Even if you were wrong yesterday, you can get it right today. -Dwight Howard
  30. There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth… not going all the way, and not starting. –Buddha
  31. Be willing to be a beginner every single morning. -Meister Eckhart
  32. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are. -J.P. Morgan
  33. Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful. –Prince
  34. This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change. -Taylor Swift
  35. 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
  36. The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have. -Anna Quindlen
  37. Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings. –Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  38. New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings. –Lao Tzu
  39. Today is a new day, the first day of the rest of your life. –Abbie Hoffman
  40. Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing. -Mandy Hale
  41. Don’t be afraid of new beginnings. Don’t shy away from new people, new energy, and new surroundings. Embrace new chances at happiness. –Unknown
  42. “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
  43. The beginning is always today. -Mary Shelley
  44. 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
  45. Everything begins at the beginning, and quite often the beginning begins when you shift your mind in a new direction. -Louie Herron
  46. Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. –Henry Ford
  47. Oh, my friend, it’s not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what you have left. -Hubert Humphrey
  48. Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction. -Germany Kent
  49. 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
  50. The beginning is always today. –Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
  51. Though we may not have reached the heights we anticipated yesterday, today is a brand new day to begin a new climb. -Chinonye J. Chidolue
  52. 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
  53. It’s good to start over. It will be scary but you will see what you’re really made of; it’s the best opportunity to achieve what you never thought you could. -Jennifer Coletta
  54. Holding on is believing that there’s only a past; letting go is knowing that there’s a future. –Daphne Rose Kingma
  55. You don’t have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great. -Zig Ziglar
  56. The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. -Joseph Campbell
  57. You will enrich your life immeasurably if you approach it with a sense of wonder and discovery, and always challenge yourself to try new things. -Nate Berkus
  58. Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over. -Guy Finley
  59. Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better with change. -Jim Rohn
  60. There are no happy endings. Endings are the saddest part, so just give me a happy middle and a very happy start. -Shel Silverstein
  61. If you do not see light at the end of the tunnel, consider it an opportunity to create an opening yourself, wherever you want. -Ashok Kallarakkal
  62. The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide you’re not going to stay where you are. -JP Morgan
  63. We have it in our power to begin the world over again. -Thomas Paine
  64. Every moment is a new beginning. -Elie Wiesel
  65. The Sun is a daily reminder that we too can rise again from the darkness, that we too can shine our own light. -S. Ajna
  66. I discovered that a fresh start is a process. A fresh start is a journey – a journey that requires a plan. –Vivian Jokotade
  67. The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. -Ivy Baker Priest
  68. For last year’s words belong to last year’s language, and next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning. -T.S. Elio
  69. If God closes a door and a window, consider the fact that it might be time to build a whole new house. -Mandy Hale
  70. Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning. –Desmond Tutu
  71. And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were. -Rainer Maria Rilke
  72. Begin, be bold and venture to be wise. -Horace
  73. Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. –Ralph Blum
  74. Take the first step in faith. You don’t have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step. –Martin Luther King Jr.
  75. As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning. –Criss Jami
  76. Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. The beginning makes the conditions perfect. -Alan Cohen
  77. There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning. –Louis L’Amour
  78. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go. –Herman Hesse
  79. The darkest night is often the bridge for the brightest tomorrow. -Jonathan Lockwood Huie
  80. 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
  81. Tomorrow is the first blank page of a 365-page book. Write a good one. –Brad Paisley
  82. No one can ever take your memories from you – each day is a new beginning, make good memories every day. –Catherine Pulsifer
  83. There are far better things ahead than what we leave behind. –C. S. Lewis
  84. Never allow waiting to become a habit. Live your dreams and take risks. Life is happening now. -Paulo Coelho
  85. Just when the caterpillar thought the world was over, she became a butterfly. –Barbara Haines Howett
  86. 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
  87. 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
  88. Your present circumstances don’t determine where you can go. They merely determine where you start. -Unknown
  89. To greet a lovely morning, we must leave the night behind. –Tarang Sinha
  90. The magic in new beginnings is truly the most powerful of them all. –Josiyah Martin
  91. The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings. –Dave Weinbaum
  92. Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can. -Arthur Ashe
  93. I treat every album as a new beginning, so I’m asking myself, ‘What is pop music now? What are people consuming?’ and I take these things into effect. -Luis Fonsi
  94. The beginning is the most important part of the work. –Plato
  95. There is no point in dwelling on the past because each day is a new beginning. -Chunky Pandey
  96. A new day: Be open enough to see opportunities. Be wise enough to be grateful. Be courageous enough to be happy. -Steve Maraboli
  97. 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
  98. Beginnings could happen more than once or in different ways. –Rachel Joyce
  99. Let’s forget the baggage of the past and make a new beginning. -Shehbaz Sharif
  100. 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
  101. New beginnings can be daunting but they carry the hope of a new tomorrow. -Epifania Maphosa
  102. New beginnings are an opportunity to apply the lessons learnt in the seasons before. -Epifania Maphosa

New beginnings can be a terrifying yet exhilarating concept. We may be filled with fear, doubt, and uncertainty about what the future holds, but with courage and strength, we can move beyond that.

These 101 quotes about new beginnings are inspirational reminders of our power to make a fresh start, releasing us from the burdens of our past.

The quote collection offers some much-needed hope and excitement for tomorrow, wrapping us in the reassurance that we have what it takes to embark on something new.

With its gentle reminder of hope and possibility, this affirmation brings us back to ourselves so that we can take that leap forward with confidence. There is beauty in the thought of starting anew – let’s embrace it every day!

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