Top 153 Best Letting Go Quotes & Sayings 2023

Letting Go Quotes

“Even on my weakest days I get a little bit stronger.”

– Sara Evans

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.”

– Steve Maraboli

“It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all, in which case you have failed by default.”

– J. K. Rowling

“It is mental slavery to cling to things that have stopped serving it’s purpose in your life.”

– Chinonye J. Chidolue

“In the process of letting go, you will lose many things from the past, but you will find

yourself.” – Deepak Chopra

“It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.”

– Theodore Roosevelt

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”

– Tony Schwartz

“Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering…”

– Hal Tipper

“Life is just a slide. Back and forth between loving and leaving, remembering and forgetting, holding on and letting go.”

– Nicole Lyons

“Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”

– Bryant McGill

“Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day!”

– Steve Maraboli

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.”

– Ann Lander

“The day I understood everything, was the day I stopped trying to figure everything out. The day I knew peace was the day I let everything go.”

– C. JoyBell C.

“The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.”

– Seneca

“The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.”

– Alyson Noel

“There are times in life when people must know when not to let go. Balloons are designed to teach small children this.”

– Terry Pratchett

“What happens when you let go when your strength leaves you and you sink into darkness, when there’s nothing that you or anyone else can do, no matter how desperate you are, no matter how you try? Perhaps it’s then, when you have neither pride nor power, that you are saved, brought to an unimaginably great reward.”

– Mark Halperin

 Letting Go Quotes And Sayings

You must learn to let go. Release the stress. You were never in control anyway.

Steve Maraboli

Letting go of your painful past is how you open yourself to a wonderful future.

Bryant H. McGill

You can meet someone who’s just right, but he might not be meant for you. You break up, you lose things, you never feel the same again. But maybe you should stop questioning why. Maybe you should just accept it and move on.

Winna Efendi

If you want to fly on the sky, you need to leave the earth. If you want to move forward, you need to let go the past that drags you down.

Amit Ray

Letting go doesn’t have to mean walking away. It means the things that hurt you don’t hurt you anymore.

Sue Fitzmaurice

Some relationships are like glass. It’s better to leave it broken, than to hurt yourself more by picking it up and trying to put it back together.

Herman Hesse

Just because someone has been in your life for many years, doesn’t mean there shouldn’t be a point at which you finally decide to let go.

Wilfred James Dolor

Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to.

Mandy Hale

Letting go doesn’t mean that you don’t care about someone anymore. It’s just realizing that the only person you really have control over is yourself.

Deborah Reber

Letting go is the willingness to change your beliefs in order to bring more peace and joy into your life instead of holding onto beliefs that bring pain and suffering.

Hal Tipper

The only thing a person can ever really do is keep moving forward. Take that big leap forward without hesitation, without once looking back. Simply forget the past and forge toward the future.

Alyson Noel

Forgiveness is the choice to see people as they are now. When we’re mad at people, we’re angry because of something they said or did before this moment. By letting go of the past, we make room for miracles to replace our grievances.

Marianne Williamson

Letting go may sound so simple, but rarely is it a one-time thing. Just keep letting go, until one day it’s gone for good.

Eleanor Brownn

Don’t dwell on things from yesterday. Learn from them and keep moving forward in life.

Anurag Prakash Ray

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

Deepak Chopra

If you want to make room for something new, you must let go of something old that no longer serves you.

Roy T. Bennett

Letting go is hard; holding on much harder and moving on seems to be the hardest at times.

Sepi Tajima

Letting go means to come to the realization that some people are a part of your history, but not a part of your destiny.

Steve Maraboli

Letting go is not about giving up, being lazy, or sacrificing yourself… Letting go doesn’t have to mean losing; it can be about coming into a new, open, clean space from which you can create.

Rebekah Elizabeth

Giving up isn’t always the bad thing it’s made out to be. Sometimes when you stop putting your energy into something, you free yourself to focus more deeply on something else.

Maria Ana Bulquerin

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.

Lao Tzu

If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.

Michael Bassey Johnson

Learning to ignore certain people is one of the great paths to inner peace. Life gets easier when you delete those who make it difficult.

Mitch Cuento

Forget about the past. It does not exist, except in your memory. Drop it. And stop worrying about how you’re going to get through tomorrow. Life is going on right here, right now – pay attention to that and all will be well.

Neale Donald Walsch

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

Kate Winslet

To let go is to release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our spirit.

Jack Kornfield

No matter how bad you want a person, if your hearts are in two different places, you’ll have to pass and move on.

Alexandra Elle

 Inspirational Letting Go Quotes

Never love something so much that you can’t let go of it.

—Ginni Rometty

I realize there’s something incredibly honest about trees in winter, how they’re experts at letting things go.

—Jeffrey McDaniel

I think that you never fall out of love with somebody, you just let go and move on.

—Ashley Rickards

Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.

—Guy Finley

There’s an important difference between giving up and letting go.

–Jessica Hatchigan

The most difficult aspect of moving on is accepting that the other person already did.

—Faraaz Kazi

Pain will leave you, when you let go.

—Jeremy Aldana

I think every girl has that a guy she has trouble letting go of.

—Rashida Jones

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.

–Lao Tzu

Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

—Oprah Winfrey

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.

—Steve Maraboli

Letting Go Of A Relationship Quotes

You can only lose what you cling to. – Buddha

Making a big life change can be scary but living with regret is always scarier. – Unknown

Letting go does not mean you stop caring. It means you stop trying to force others to. – Mandy Hale

Some think that holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it’s letting go. – Herman Hesse

Forget what hurt you but never forget what it taught you. – Unknown

Last night I lost the world, and gained the universe. – Joybell

I demolish my bridges behind me.. then there is no choice but to move forward. – Fridtjof Nansen

Sometimes it takes a heartbreak to shake us awake and help us see we are worth so much more than we’re settling for. – Mandy Hale

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. – Steve Maraboli

The greatest step towards a life of simplicity is to learn to let go. – Steve Maraboli

Change can be good but its always tough to let go of the past. – Emily Giffin

Thank God I found the GOOD in goodbye. – Beyonce Knowles

Your time is way too valuable to be wasting on people that can’t accept who you are. – Turcois Ominek

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don’t, they never were. – Khalil Gibran

Every day is a new day, and you’ll never be able to find happiness if you don’t move on. – Carrie Underwood

Don’t dwell on what went wrong. Instead focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer. – Denis Waitley

Moving on, is a simple thing, what it leaves behind is hard. – Dave Mustaine

 Sad Let Go Quotes

“I love you enough to let you go.”

“Sometimes letting you go means loving you more”

…maybe he can take care of you better than me,,

…I feel empty when you’re gone…

…my pulse stop when you said goodbye…

When it all seems dark

and you feel like giving up

think of the memories you had

and try to let go.

“You have never been in love until you loved someone enough to let them go”

Let go of the things that can no longer be fixed.

If you try to force them back, things will only get worse…

Holding on is loving, but sometimes,

Letting go is loving more……

“be true to yourself. forget what s/he wants you to be”

I thought losing you would hurt but no; i think am so much better without you. I can now fly and touch the sky without you pulling me down.

Sometimes in order to not fall apart you have to let go of what keeps you together.

If you love something enough,

let it go,

if it was meant to be

it will come back to you,

if not then it was never truly yours.

the saddest thing about loving is when you hold on to love too much, and he does nothing but letting you go….

 Letting Go Quotes For Her And Him

It is tough to let go of someone you can’t live without. But living with someone who can live without you, is much worse.

Never underestimate the power of unrequited love. It will break your heart, destroy your soul and will make you doubt the power of love.

Let go of love that is one-sided before it makes you let go of your self-respect.

Holding on to a toxic relationship doesn’t make you strong. It weakens you from the soul and strips you of your dignity. Let go, move on.

Letting go does not mean erasing memories. It simply means that you’re now ready to make better ones.

Beyond the suffering, lies redemption. Beyond the hurt, lies solace. Beyond the pain, lies happiness. Beyond the heartbreak, lies freedom.

It’s great to be committed to fixing a broken relationship. But’s it stupid to hold on to one, when the love is unrequited.

It’s tough to let go and move on from bad relationships, but so is every other good thing in life.

It’s never easy to let go of memories. But always remember that there are more beautiful ones yet to be made.

Break the memories before they break you. Breath it out and let it go.

Difficult journeys lead to beautiful destinations, and letting go is no different.

In relationships, give your heart but never your soul. You’ll be able to pick up the broken pieces of your heart when it’s time to move on but you’ll always leave behind a part of your soul.

Walk away from a bad relationship before it makes you walk away from yourself.

Never breakup without a reason and once you do, never look back.