Top 100 To Start Over Quotes
#1. Often we can achieve an even better result when we stumble yet are willing to start over, when we don't give up after a mistake, when something doesn't come easily but we throw ourselves into trying, when we're not afraid to appear less than perfectly polished.
Sharon Salzberg
#2. I need to start over. I can't just stay stuck in this place. This is a wonderful skill to bring to your life.
Sharon Salzberg
#3. God takes that which is nothing and makes something out of it. When you become a Christian, you cannot patch your Christianity onto your old life. You are to start over. Accept God's call as a promotion. Burn the old bridges and fix it so you cannot go back ; then serve God with all your heart.
Aiden Wilson Tozer
#4. I'm currently between assignments and was looking for a change. I heard there was work in Nashville and it seemed like a good place to start over. So here I am stuck in the freezing cold with a ... serial killer. Has the making for a great horror movie, huh? (Leta)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#5. Klamath was all about fishing and socializing and cooking and eating, and waking up the next day to start over again.
Kim Gordon
#6. The truth of the matter was that I made myself disappear. I never liked being a Judge, so I just decided to start over. Sorry to inconvenience anyone.
Joseph Force Crater
#7. I don't know if I would do this if I had to start over again.
Gray Davis
#8. In a city of illusion, where change is what the city does, it's no wonder Las Vegas is the court of last resort, the last place to start over, to reinvent yourself in the same way that the city does, time after time. For some it works; for some it doesn't, but they keep coming and trying.
Hal Rothman
#9. How do they manage to go on living? ... By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That's the true meaning of faith. It's the deepest kind of heroism.
Naomi Ragen
#10. It's never too late - never too late to start over, never too late to be happy.
Jane Fonda
#11. Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again.
Patrick Stump
#12. You want to start over?" he murmured against her ear. His hot breath sent shivers to her toes.
Savannah Stuart
#13. I was ready to start over as a comet: refuel, reignite, and burn across the sky.
Christina Lauren
#14. When I was in art school, I thought art was something I would learn how to do, and then I would just do it. At a certain point I realized that it wasn't going to work like that. Basically, I would have to start over every day and figure out what art was going to be.
Bruce Nauman
#15. I don't miss my youth. I'm glad I had one, but I wouldn't like to start over.
Umberto Eco
#16. It is better to start over than to continue down a path that you know is wrong for your Soul.
Denise Linn
#17. With age I have voluntarily chosen certain limitations. I don't have the energy to start over again. To learn new skills or fight my own personality or figure out diesel engines.
Peter Hoeg
#18. Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
Carl Sandburg
#19. Everyone's mind wanders, without doubt, and we always have to start over. Everyone resists or dislikes the thought of or is too tired to meditate at times, and we have to be able to begin again.
Sharon Salzberg
#20. Her tear-streaked face is beautiful. I want to wipe away her tears. I want to take the last ten years and erase them. I want to start over.
Heidi McLaughlin
#21. Will you allow me to start over this morning? I fear I arose on the wrong side of the bed.
'It is I who should apologize. I'm afraid that any side of the bed would have been the wrong one at this hour.
Julia Quinn
#22. JULIAN ALBANS'S PRECEPT Sometimes it's good to start over. - Julian Albans
R.J. Palacio
#23. This is life. Things get taken away. You will learn to start over many times
or you will be useless.
Mitch Albom
#24. Failure is just another opportunity to start over.
Yogi Berra
#25. Because sometimes it's easier to start over with a clean slate than to drag the baggage of your past with you wherever you go.
Shaun David Hutchinson
#26. I liked my house. I liked my stuff. I had to start over once. I don't want to have to do it again. But life says, 'Tough bounce,' and what are my options? Take it on the chin and keep marching.
Tami Hoag
#27. I can feel it ... the chance to start over, to live right, to love right, to burn up in a fiery cloud and never again be buried in the mud.
Isaac Marion
#28. This much I knew As soon as you feel comfortable that's when It's time to start over.
Jerry Weintraub
#29. When you have nothing left but God,you have more than enough to start over again.
Mother Teresa
#30. As far as I'm concerned, my life is just beginning. It's never too late to start over, so this is what I've been doing.
LaToya Jackson
#31. You don't seem to understand me,' she said. 'The last thing I want is to start over. You can't wake up something that's dead and buried.
Erick Setiawan
#32. The best thing about endings is knowing that just ahead is the daunting task to start over.
Jodi Picoult
#33. Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#34. It's easy to start over-thinking things and over-analysing things.
Andy Murray
#35. One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.
Madi Diaz
#36. Several times in his life he had felt an intense desire to start over, to somehow turn back the clock of his life to a point where he might, if he were careful, avoid the many mistakes he had made the first time around.
Larry McMurtry
#37. I've been starting in new places year after year after year. It's just like when I went to Greece or the Philippines. I love when people think I'm a new artist. It's a chance to start over.
Thalia
#38. This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get another rejection letter. Every successful writer has gone through that, but they kept writing and didn't quit until they made it happen.
Tim Maleeny
#39. You don't need fancy things to feel good. You can hug a puppy. You can buy a can of paint and surround yourself with color. You can plant a flower and watch it grow. You can decide to trust people - the right people. You can decide to start over and let other people start over too -Sugar Mae Cole
Joan Bauer
#40. Everyone has failed at something in this life. So chalk it all up to experience & move on. Tomorrow gives you a new chance to start over and try to make things right.
Enjoy the new day & your life!
Timothy Pina
#41. Why did he keep going when everyone else got to start over?
Ann Brashares
#42. 'Bell Choir Coast' is about a fictional land where I was able to start over, discover myself, and learn to take life a lot less seriously.
Sydney Wayser
#43. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.
Jessica Lange
#44. Home was always the place she went to when she had to start over.
Lorna Landvik
#45. It's not easy to start over in a new place,' he said. 'Exile is not for everyone. Someone has to stay behind, to receive the letters and greet family members when they come back.
Edwidge Danticat
#46. By the way, I love your precept. I agree, sometimes it's good to start over. A fresh start gives us the chance to reflect on the past, weigh the things we've done, and apply what we've learned from those things to the future. If we don't examine the past, we don't learn from it.
R.J. Palacio
#47. By the time a kid goes to college, if he's taking math or science, at least he knows, or you hope he knows, some basics. But if you're teaching history in college, you have a lot of damage to undo. You basically have to start over because so much of what a kid has already learned is just wrong.
Chris Crutcher
#48. We are not afraid to look under the bed, or to wash the sheets; we know that life is messy. We know that somebody has to clean it up, and that only if it is cleaned up can we hope to start over, and get better.
Marsha Norman
#49. Was it better to think you had lost everything, and to start over? Or easier to know that the people you loved were alive, even if you could never see them again?
Cassandra Clare
#50. 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
#51. 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
#53. I want a new past,new memories, a new first handshake with love. I want to start over in every possible way.
Isaac Marion
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.
Michelle Wie
#58. 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
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#64. It's easier to start over than to work to make something last.
Rachel Hawthorne
#65. If you fail the first time that's just a chance to start over again.
Lenny Wilkens
#66. Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#67. We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten.
Kurt Vonnegut
#68. 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
#69. 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
#70. 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
#71. You are not required to start over, but you are required to keep going.
Gwen Bristow
#72. When you can no longer think of a reason to continue, you must think of a reason to start over
Linda Poindexter
#73. I'm good, I don't need no help. Cause I'm better off by myself then to start over with somebody else.
Drake
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. Nightmares are at all times better than real life; because you always have the chance to start over everything.
M.F. Moonzajer
#79. 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
#80. And when I have that feeling, that feeling like I need a handout, desperate, I want to pull my skin off and turn into dust.I want to throw myself back to the angels and tell them to start over,start over without me cause you put the screws in loose, you put the hinges in wrong.
Andrea Portes
#81. Hope is a renewable option:
If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.
Barbara Kingsolver
#83. Now I've gone for too long
Living like I'm not alive
So I'm going to start over tonight
Beginning with you and I
Hayley Williams
#84. I don't care about any of it. All I want to do is lean forward and kiss him. Steal him away from the bad stuff, convince him to start over because I believe he isn't beyond saving yet.
K.A. Tucker
#85. Anything you write, even if you have to start over, is valuable. I let the story write itself through the characters.
Steve Buscemi
#86. a reason to start over new, the reason is you.
Alain Silver
#87. My personal feeling is that people need to be careful not to start over-analyzing and taking things apart and trying to be critical.
Amy Ray
#88. 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
#89. I stayed because running seemed too strange and too complicated. All I knew was how to fall back, find a patch of solid ground, and then dig my heels in and fight to start over.
Tana French
#90. Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#91. I'd been rejected, but I was still in love, so I decided to start over.
Steve Jobs
#92. 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
#93. 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
#94. It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#95. The current paradigm is so thoroughly established that the only way to change is to start over again.
Donald A. Norman
#96. As if it were far easier to start over completely than to try to put everything back together again.
Jennifer E. Smith
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
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