Top 86 When It's Time To Move On Quotes
#1. Healing is a process. Sometimes it's quick, and other times it's gruelingly long. You're the only person who knows when it's time to move on and let go.
Jonathan Sadowski
#2. Everybody gets to a stage when it's time to move on. I was bored, and the band wasn't going anywhere, so I left. I did a couple of shows on Broadway and some other things. I was busy. I just wasn't making records.
Peter Noone
#4. I'm not formal and I'm impatient. So I think my team would say that when she starts tapping her pen and the leg starts moving quickly, that it's time to move on. I'm not good at long, drawn-out kinds of sessions.
Anne M. Mulcahy
#5. One of the great jokes of life is that by the time you're old enough to recognize how little you know, all you can do is mop up the aftermath, dump it in a giant personal hazmat container and move on.
Virginia DeBerry
#6. In the coming days, I know there will be some reflecting on my time as mayor. Many of you will search to find what's behind my decision. It's simple. I have always believed that every person, especially public officials, must understand when it is time to move on. For me, that time is now.
Richard M. Daley
#7. Time slowly begins to move. Even as we begin to awaken to mundane daily life ... I don't want us to forget ... the sadness of living on the backs of unseen sacrifices.
Kaori Yuki
#8. There's such big pressure on people who are incredibly famous, on those who have people sitting outside their front door and taking photos every time they move.
Miranda Otto
#9. I've been working on my craft for a long time. People never want to let go of the whole 'Glitter,' ... I'm like, 'It's eight years later, people. Let's move on.
Mariah Carey
#10. But time could not move backward. Just as he had been made, he had to be unmade."
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Veronica Roth
#11. It is the blessing of dumb work done close to the earth-one gritty minute at a time, we move forward.
Michael Perry
#12. I don't move until an actor is happy, but it was very important to me as a so-called "first time director" to keep the machine moving. It was especially important to me to keep it moving and not be some kind of precious writer-director.
William Monahan
#13. All he wanted to do was shove home and stay there until neither one of them could move, but he found himself saying, "Last chance. You sure about this?" If she had any doubts, now was the time to call the whole thing off. "Oh no. You don't get to take the goddamn noble route now.
Katee Robert
#14. We have this time to meet and do something, or just be together, and then we lose it and move to another kind of time, another kind of being, I guess. Those left behind must mourn, remember, and live on as we know.
Mimi Kennedy
#15. Having been in the presidency from the time of Mandela to that of Zuma, I am one of the privileged few who has seen it all, rather than hearing it via the grapevine. The challenge is say 'the things I could not say' in a responsible way that helps the country to move forward rather than backwards.
Frank Chikane
#16. Hey, T-Rex? Remind me next time I want to get smartass with you that it's a really stupid move on my part? (Talon)
Oh, no, you don't, you wuss. You told me the next time you saw Ash you were going to ask him if he'd seen the movie 10,000 BC and if it'd made him homesick. (Wulf)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#17. I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free.
But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing.
Rabindranath Tagore
#18. It's not time or opportunity that is to obtain supremacy; it's determination alone that leads you to move your bone and to have anything done. Laziness leads to none.
Ana Claudia Antunes
#19. I was pretty young when I bought my first place, and at that time didn't really view it as an investment. After living there for a few years I decided to move out of London, so I decided to rent it out for a few years. Then, as the property market continued to rise, I made the decision to sell.
Andy Murray
#20. I think for me it was a natural transition to move full time into acting rather than figure skating.
Julie Benz
#21. Don't let the tide of life shift you away, move intentionally in the right direction
Sunday Adelaja
#22. If a deed is done, it's time to move on.
Vicki Myron
#23. Time passes, people move. Like a river's flow, it never ends. A childish mind will turn to noble ambition. Young love will become deep affection. The clear water's surface reflects growth. Now listen to the Serenade of water to reflect upon yourself.
Sheik
#24. I find that when I'm ready for something to end, I transition quickly. But when something ends before its time, I find it hard to move on.
Emma Caulfield
#25. When you're away for a long time, tastes change, fans move on. You hate to think about it, but it's an ugly fact of life.
Anita Baker
#26. 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.
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
#27. When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need right now. I think a lot of people go out and buy books because they love to read. They read it really fast and then move on to the next book. I don't do that.
Echo Bodine
#28. When I left here I left everything here. It's time to move on
Mark Messier
#29. When you stop being nervous is when you should retire. I'm always a little nervous for anything I do because when complacency sets in, that's when I feel it's time to move on to something else.
Chris Jericho
#30. When guilt rears its ugly head confront it, discuss it and let it go. The past is over. It is time to ask what can we do right, not what did we do wrong. Forgive yourself and move on.
Bernie Siegel
#31. When it comes to love and loss, acceptance is never easy. We can't make someone see all we have to give, make them love us, or make them change. All we can do is move on and stop wasting time.
April Mae Monterrosa
#32. A big part of letting go is recognizing when it is time to stay in a situation and when it is time to move on.
Darren Johnson
#33. You have to decide when it is time to move on.
Wendy Whelan
#34. I would feel ill without theater. It's kind of a cliche, but every time you make a mistake, you really do have to learn from it to move on. When you're doing something live, there's no time to dwell. Hopefully you'll laugh it off, but if not, you can always take a day to hate yourself.
Nina Arianda
#35. If people aren't there for you now, when you really need them, they never will be, and it's time to move on. You'll be amazed by how many new friends you have in the after. They'll be the ones who aren't afraid of sorrow, who know we can't avoid it. The best we can do is face it together.
Alice Hoffman
#36. When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want.
Shannon L. Alder
#37. You once told me that we're here to eat all the good Mexican food we can," I reminded him, "and when we've had our fill, it's time to move on.
Dean Koontz
#38. But now, now he needed to let himself rest when it came time to rest, and to move on when it came time to move on, and to do so in the direction of the moving on.
Joshua Ferris
#39. I don't dislike any of my exes. If I took time to form a relationship, it's gonna hurt when we move on, but are you puttin' White-Out over all that beautiful time together? That was real time in your life. It's connected to where you are today.
Matthew McConaughey
#40. Even when I retired, there was part of me that didn't want to retire. But once you decide it's time to move on then you have to stick with it.
John Elway
#41. When smiles fade, girl, you'll know it's time to move on.
Paige Dearth
#42. One of the surprises of her unoccupied state was the discovery that time, when it is left to itself and no definite demands are made on it, cannot be trusted to move at any recognized pace
Edith Wharton
#43. There was a time when someone would get on a plane and request to move their seat just because the person sitting next to them was of a different ethnicity or religion or nationality. But I don't think my generation wants that. That's how it used to be.
ASAP Rocky
#44. When the extraordinary becomes ordinary it is time to move on.
Derek Darke
#45. Life is a game board. Time is your opponent. If you procrastinate, you will lose the game. You must make a move to be victorious.
Napoleon Hill
#46. Every day, you have to prove yourself and convince - move forward and challenge yourself. And doubt all the time.
Christine Lagarde
#47. The king just sits there, moving one square at a time. The queen can move so freely. I suppose I'd rather lose the game than forfeit her freedom.
Deborah Harkness
#48. Don't behave like a cat who is patiently waiting for the right time to attack its prey! For you, right time is now, suitable moment is now; use 'now' because any moment after 'now' is just a theory, it may never exist! Stop being patient, stop behaving like a fixed statue and move now!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#49. We made plans. I lay in bed for a long time just feeling delicious anticipation. Then excitement hit. I got up. I had to move a mountain or something.
Deb Caletti
#50. Everyone says that getting over somebody 'just takes time' and that one day it will stop hurting and the door will open for you to move on. We are also told that love is eternal; something extraordinary that will stay with you forever... The contradiction is immense.
Natasha Preston
#51. I like jewellery because it's forever. Flowers die, chocolates get eaten and lingerie wears out in the wash. Plus, the girl is reminded of you every time she wears it. It's a wise move.
Amanda Bynes
#52. Uncontrolled or covert napping, however, is still probably very common. One need only move through a building surreptitiously and peek at people to find some subset of sleep at any given time.
David F. Dinges
#53. You should have felt the buzz the moment all five of us got together in the same room for the first time again. We all started laughin' - it was like the five years had never passed. We knew we'd made the right move.
Steven Tyler
#54. "You're my hero," we both say at the same time. I don't hear Kent move, but all of a sudden his voice is closer, and he's found my hands in the dark, and he's cupping them in his.
Lauren Oliver
#55. Brad Pitt is great fun. He jokes around all the time and has a real quality about him. On set the director called me over and said, 'Jase, just watch him. Watch him move.' Instead of walking, Brad literally glides. It's incredible.
Jason Flemyng
#56. The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.
Michel Gondry
#57. I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.
Sandra Bullock
#58. I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.
Halston Sage
#59. Often you see people who move there and then, once they have arrived, the ball moves here after which they also come here, but then the ball goes there again. I say: just stay where you are, then you are in any case at the right place half of the time.
Johan Cruijff
#60. If you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward
Jodi Picoult
#61. Writers spend too much time among dead things. I thought that was profound and actually true, that you're trying to pump life into something that is inanimate. You see what a sort of audacious thing it is to move these sort of imaginary people around in a very stylized and patterned world.
Martin Amis
#62. Why do we go to all this trouble' Parker asked. 'Men don't notice anyway.'
'Because what we wear affects how we feel, how we act, how we move. And that they do notice. Especially the move. Get dressed, smoke the eyes. You'll know you look good so you'll feel good. You'll have a better time.
Nora Roberts
#63. Cast off everything/everyone else has known for you./Move gratefully, from these old skins./And this time, if you toughen,/decide/for whom?
Em Claire
#64. Every time you get a chance to move forward, you just hijack your own future. it's like - you don't actually want to... You're in control of your own life. And yet you act like you're permanently buffeted by events outside your control.
Jojo Moyes
#65. At the time the world was all upside down. The American people were beginning to move around a lot. The old hometown ties had been pretty much broken. The theme of Farmer Takes a Wife appealed to people. Everybody was homesick. And it sold and sold and sold.
John Gould
#66. But as an amateur, the highest level you can box at is the Olympics. I did that at 18 and felt it was time to move on to other challenges as a professional.
Billy Joe Saunders
#67. To time travel, you must move from where you are, or just close your eyes.
Steven Cuoco
#68. Sometimes I use Botox. Compared to most, I use it very sparingly. One time I did too much, though. I feel weird if I can't move my face, and that one time I overdid it, I felt trapped in my own skin.
Courteney Cox
#69. Every move a sloth makes is with purpose, which is more than most of us can say about 90% of the time.
Ann Burton
#70. I believe, given enough time, all of engineering will move to paradigms based on the biological cell.
Brian Bennudriti
#71. We as humans only learn through failure and if you fail along the way, take note of it then move on. This only gets easier as time goes on.
Kathy Stanton
#72. I think we've been through a lot this season and it will be nice to move on. It's one step at a time though. The focus of our hockey club was great. We really stuck to our game plan and didn't get too high or too low and we definitely didn't get over excited.
Martin Brodeur
#73. There's a certain kind of time that's metronomic, that's correct, but doesn't want you want to dance. It doesn't make you want to move, and it doesn't make you want to play.
Fred Hersch
#74. The kind of job doesn't matter. The length of time doesn't matter. If you work hard and do your best, you'll be recognized and move onward.
Benjamin Carson
#75. Never sit under a tree waiting for the apple to fall. Climb the tree, grab that apple!
When it comes, never be inert and take your time, TIME TO MOVE!
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#76. In chess you might find a good move. Then you might find a better move. But take your time. Find the best move.
Josh Waitzkin
#77. If you confidently start to move from where you are to where you want to be, it's only a matter of time before the people around you will accept what you are doing. Or, at the very least, they will realize you will not be deterred, and they'll stop trying to hold you back.
Heidi Tankersley
#78. Matter tells space how to curve, space tells matter how to move.
Albert Einstein
#79. Reuss would spend the remainder of his meteoric life on the move, living out of a backpack on very little money, sleeping in the dirt, cheerfully going hungry for days at a time.
Jon Krakauer
#80. Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die.
Yoko Ono
#81. There are some actors that are so gifted, that move you in such a way that every time you see their names again, you go and pay another ticket because you want to have that experience again.
Demian Bichir
#82. Spring is a time to find out where you are, who you are, and move toward where you are going.
Penelope Trunk
#83. You and I move through time like a flame on a string. The ashes behind are the past, consumed, unreachable. The string ahead is the future. But the only moment we inhabit, the only moment where we can act, is the present, the point where the flame burns, the point where time touches eternity.
Brandon Mull
#84. The time has come to move beyond eco-elitism to eco- populism . Ecopopulism ... To change our laws and culture , the green movement justice , political solutions and social change.
Van Jones
#85. When we are most scared is the time to summon our clearest concentration and move forward, not back.
Peter Heller
#86. God is constantly on the move. I cannot stay where I am and follow God at the same time; responding requires movement.
Margaret Feinberg
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