Start Over Quotes

#1. When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over

Linda Poindexter

#2. Many modern artists, philosophers, and theologians reject the knowledge of the past. Thus they must continually start over again from ground zero, their vision restricted to their own narrow perspectives, making themselves artificially primitive.

Gene Edward Veith Jr.

#3. If we screw it up, start over. Try something else.

Lee Iacocca

#4. Then they would roll these handfuls of cloud in their fingers until they turned into what looked like large white marbles. Then they would toss the marbles to one side and quickly grab more bits of cloud and start over again.

Roald Dahl

#5. The whole construct of my universe was a cunning, entangled network of lies. I had to start over again. I knew that. And I had to begin by ceasing to loathe myself for my difference from the rest.

Pat Conroy

#6. Existing is going through the motions of life with no zeal and feeling you have no control; living means embracing all that this large world has to offer and not being afraid to take chances. The beauty of living is knowing you can always start over and there's always a chance for something better.

J'son M. Lee

#7. We have a sign on our cafeteria bulletin board that says: Try Test Adjust Try Again Fail Modify Scrap Start Over

Jack V. Matson

#8. These rotary dials were like meditation, they forced you to slow down and concentrate. If you polled the next number too soon, you had to start over from the top.

Rainbow Rowell

#9. I don't believe in hitting a bad shot and then insisting it's no big deal. No, you just messed up, so react. I'm not saying you need to throw your club. I mean, take 10 seconds to get angry at yourself, but then start over.

Camilo Villegas

#10. Sometimes it's good to start over

R.J. Palacio

#11. A happy ending. Huh. I thought that was why we were here. Now. Five hundred years into Earth's future. So we could start over, and live happily-ever-after. It wasn't turning out that way, was it?

A.B. Shepherd

#12. America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

Anthony Walton

#13. I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.

Isaac Marion

#14. Sometimes life was hard, she thought, walking across the grass to be with her friends. Just when you least expected it, you had to start over. There was pain in that, but also satisfaction. With or without her wanting it to, life moved on. And she would, too.

Susan Mallery

#15. A new year was a chance to start over. Maybe even, just maybe, there would be a peace on earth for one entire day.

Dorothea Benton Frank

#16. With me, the present is forever, and forever is always shifting, flowing, melting. This second is life. And when it is gone it is dead. But you can't start over with each new second. You have to judge by what is dead. It's like quicksand ... hopeless from the start.

Sylvia Plath

#17. Whatever we do, it is definitely time that we reboot the health care reform attempt. It's time to completely start over.

Jaime Herrera Beutler

#18. I watched 'E.T.' when I was a kid every day. Well, not all of it every day; I'd pause it and start over again. But I've watched 'E.T.' about 400 times in my life.

Francois Arnaud

#19. Last year, the surgery was a tough decision, but I had to make a decision based on my career. It was a decision to get healthy, and start over with a new team at 100 percent.

Brian Jordan

#20. We tried to make a beautiful world here, the voices mumble. There were those who saw the end of civilization as an opportunity to start over, to undo the errors of history
to relive mankind's awkward adolescence with all the wisdom of our modern age. But everything was happening so fast.

Isaac Marion

#21. Finally, it became perfectly obvious. A finish line marks a stopping point. Once we stop, we must start over, and starting over is harder than continuing.

Gretchen Rubin

#22. If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.

Michelle Wie

#23. Start over again. Concentrate." [to a young Ernest Hemingway]

Gertrude Stein

#24. It's never too late to start over. If you weren't happy with yesterday, try something different today. Don't stay stuck. Do better.

Alex Elle

#25. But what a path it has been! I have had to pass through so much foolishness, so much vice, so much error, so much nausea and disillusionment and wretchedness, merely in order to become a child again and be able to start over. But all of this was just and proper.

Hermann Hesse

#26. Fred Vogelstein summed up iPhone's impact that day in his book Dogfight with a quote by Google engineer Chris DeSalvo: "We're going to have to start over.

Jacquie McNish

#27. I just wanted so badly to start over, be someone new, and then he came into my life. I didn't expect him, never even wanted anything like him before, but here he is. Now I kind of need him.

Amy Lunderman

#28. A civilization's memory resides in the continuity of its institutions. The revolution that interrupts a civilization's memory, by destroying those institutions, does not relieve society of a bothersome caparison that is paralyzing it, but merely forces it to start over.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

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

F Scott Fitzgerald

#30. Why do you have to do all this after attaining a jhana? Jhana is like a juggling act. You keep things suspended in the air or balanced. Then you drop them. Then you start over.

Henepola Gunaratana

#31. It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.

Rachel Hawthorne

#32. But you can't start over
Only a boy can start over
You and me
Why, we're all that's been

John Steinbeck

#33. If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.

Lenny Wilkens

#34. Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#35. You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

Bruce Sterling

#36. We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.

Kurt Vonnegut

#37. Our old pilgrims believed stories in which the West was a promise, a place where decent people could escape the wreckage of failed lives and start over. Come along, the dream whispers, and you can have another chance. We still listen to promises in the wind. This time, we think, we'll get it right.

William Kittredge

#38. Don't be sad because it's over. Be happy because you can start over.

Ria Tumimomor

#39. It's easy to make mistakes that only come out much later, after you've already implemented a lot of code. You'll realize Oh I should have used a different type of data structure. Start over from scratch.

Guido Van Rossum

#40. 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.

Elif Batuman

#41. The kisses felt like first kisses. Kisses that said I could start over if I wanted to. With him.

Jay Asher

#42. At any moment, a person can start over. And that's not half a life, but simply a real one. (from Vanishing Acts)

Jodi Picoult

#43. Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen? I ask. I think of all the times I wanted to stop the world from spinning, all the times I wanted to go back and start over again. All the things I've wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough?

Carrie Ryan

#44. I love the big fresh starts, the clean slates like birthdays and new years, but I also really like the idea that we can get up every morning and start over.

Kristin Armstrong

#45. Can say that?" I do want to start over with the right man, the New Nick. Things are looking bad for him, dire. Only I can save Nick from me. But I am trapped. "If you ever left here and I didn't

Gillian Flynn

#46. A young bride can put on makeup at 6 in the morning and look fabulous at midnight. I have about a 15-minute window where I actually look good, and then I have to wash my face and start over.

Cathy Guisewite

#47. Unfortunately, the thing about running, the thing about trying to start over - eventually that hope is dashed by your past coming up to greet you like the fires of hell

Rachel Van Dyken

#48. Delete it. Start over.

Christopher Nicole

#49. The dreaded cry of "reboot," which is to say we have no clue and hopefully the issue will sort itself if we start over, if we clear the cache.

Hugh Howey

#50. Timing's mighty important. In cooking, in life, in love. If the timing goes wrong, you've got to start over. Do it right.

Anya Seton

#51. I sometimes wish I could "reboot",' said Sal. 'Empty my head and start over.

Alex Scarrow

#52. You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.

Gwen Bristow

#53. Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and plunge on. Writing is a means of discovery, always.

Garrison Keillor

#54. We cannot start over, but we can begin now, and make a new beginning

Zig Ziglar

#55. It's funny when you put music up against picture, and all your preconceptions go away, and you start over. You just realize that that doesn't work at all.

Victor Levin

#56. It's time to tear up the canvas and start over. It's time for the overhaul of humanity.

Neale Donald Walsch

#57. I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.

Steve Jobs

#58. We know that Medicare's going broke in seven years, but we need to start over. That's what the American people want us to do.

John McCain

#59. Sometimes the hardest part isn't letting go but rather learning to start over.

Nicole Sobon

#60. Why not start over because every promise made is not kept, why not start over so the American people can debate [the health care law] again?!

Sean Hannity

#61. Every fight is do or die for me. I've come too far to start over. I'm on a destiny trip right now. I'm racing towards that heavyweight world championship.

Antonio Tarver

#62. If there was a way out of this mess, he'd find it. If there wasn't, I would run with him until we got far enough away to start over.

Celia Aaron

#63. I erase the word and start over. I'm working on the "Everything we still don't" list. I'm tempted to write: everything important and also: whether Simon Snow is actually gay. And: whether I'll live forever.

Rainbow Rowell

#64. I actually plan to mess up my life and start over every seven years. That way, I'll never get in a rut. I read somewhere that most of your cells only live about seven years anyway, so in theory you literally are a new person; I figure that's the best time to start over.

Jody Gehrman

#65. Merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.

Charles R. Morris

#66. In It's Only Temporary, Evan Handler confronts the ambiguities of life backward, forward, and in between. With hilarious honesty he reflects on the realization that we can start over again. It's Only Temporary is a heartfelt book for all of us who are getting younger and older at the same time.

Amy Tan

#67. Sometimes I just want to burn down all the rules and start over.

Libba Bray

#68. This was the danger, the seduction of time travel, she realized - it was the opportunity, the freedom of a thousand possibilities of where to live and how to start over. It was the beauty open to you in your life if you only stopped for a moment to look.

Alexandra Bracken

#69. I've been wanting to start over, dreaming of it. And now, finally, I know where I want to be when I begin this new part of my life.

Kristin Hannah

#70. 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.

Cormac McCarthy

#71. The hottest look for a night out is a deep side part. If that part is not at least three inches in length, then start over. The wider the part, the more open your eyes appear. It is an alluring and seductive look that will keep your date's attention the entire night.

Tabatha Coffey

#72. California is where you get to start over.

Tracy Chevalier

#73. As if it were far easier to start over completely than to try to put everything back together again.

Jennifer E. Smith

#74. The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.

Donald A. Norman

#75. It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#76. No matter how much Clair tried to ignore his features, he was gorgeous. She couldn't deny that she liked what she saw and it scared her. The last thing she needed while she was trying to start over, was a distraction.

Loni Flowers

#77. At any age you can start over. You have to drop the idea of where you should be in your career. And you have to do without a lot of love. Not everyone's going to love you.

Mary Harron

#78. I love the art of acting, and I love film, because you always have anther chance if you want it. You know, if we - if this isn't going well, you can't say - well, you could say - let's stop. Let's start over again, Gene, because you were too nervous.

Gene Wilder

#79. Your world is reborn each day... And you are allowed to start over, at least in spirit, choosing your way with a beginners mind. Open wide the doors and windows, or close them and sit by the fire. But wherever you are, make room for the new, the uncertain, the mystery.. and love...

Jack Kornfield

#80. This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get a new one: that sometimes you need to let go of everything you're clinging to and start over, whether because you've outgrown it or because it's not working anymore, or because it was wrong for you in the first place.

Kelly Cutrone

#81. The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.

Louis L'Amour

#82. From an evolutionary standpoint you can't just wipe everything out and start over, and I don't think you can do it in the school system either.

Bill Nye

#83. I studied voice and piano as a child, although, at least with voice, you start over at puberty, because your voice completely changes.

Victoria Legrand

#84. If I ever feel like I'm doing something I've done before, I scrap it and start over again.

Paul Newman

#85. But in my rebellious way I think that people have to be able to start over, just as I believed that a little girl has to be able to stay an innocent child her whole life long if she wants to,

Orhan Pamuk

#86. I've read fast - too impatient not to. But I'll go back and start over again - reading more slowly this time, so I can take everything in.

Mary Ann Shaffer

#87. I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else.

Drake

#88. Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.

Orson Scott Card

#89. It's never too late to start over!

Lynne Gentry

#90. 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.

August Wilson

#91. A wonderful but kind of a terrible truth about acting is that you actually get to a point where you become content with an impossible task: it is really impossible to properly prepare. You kind of have to start over every time.

Val Kilmer

#92. Do not let anything from your past inhibit you in this Present Moment. Start over. Start Fresh. Each day. Each hour, if it serves you. Heck, each minute. Just get going. Just do it. Just say it. With love. All else will take care of itself.

Neale Donald Walsch

#93. Every day is a chance to start over. Any day can be bad, surely, but any day can be good, can be great, and that promise, that potential, is a beautiful thing indeed.

R.A. Salvatore

#94. For a scientist, this is a good way to live and die, maybe the ideal way for any of us - excitedly finding we were wrong and excitedly waiting for tomorrow to come so we can start over.

Norman Maclean

#95. So this was what it felt like to lose yourself. Again. To let go of your future and let it rise up and up until finally you couldn't see it anymore, and you knew that you had to start over.

Dan Chaon

#96. God uses our conscience. He knows we can only start over when we are not condemning ourselves anymore.

Sue Augustine

#97. Sometimes, you have to raze things to the ground before you can start over. Sear away the past, to pave the way for a bright future.

Julie Johnson

#98. Nightmares are at all times better than real life; because you always have the chance to start over everything.

M.F. Moonzajer

#99. When you love someone, you are sure. You don't need time to decide. You don't say stop and start over and over, like you're playing some kind of sport. You know the immensity of what you have and you protect it.

Nina LaCour

#100. God is so good to give us new days and New Years since He knows we need so many times to start over.

Lacey Sturm