Letting Go Quotes

A leader is like a shepherd...staying behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Nelson Mandela

The past is for learning from and letting go. You can't revisit it. It vanishes.

Adele Parks

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Zen Proverb

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

John Seely Brown

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

Jessica Hatchigan

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

Karen Casey

Education must have two foundations --morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other, you make calculating egoists.

Sébastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort

We need in love to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily--we do not need to learn it.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Zen Proverb

Truly loving another means letting go of all expectations. It means full acceptance, even celebration of another's personhood.

Karen Casey

Think about any attachments that are depleting your emotional reserves. Consider letting them go.

Oprah Winfrey

The harder you fight to hold on to specific assumptions, the more likely there's gold in letting go of them.

John Seely Brown

Loving someone is setting them free, letting them go.

Kate Winslet

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness. Forgiveness is letting go of the past, and is therefore the means for correcting our misperceptions.

Gerald Jampolsky

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties

Gail Sheehy

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

Lao Tzu

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Havelock Ellis

When I go into my garden with a spade, and dig a bed, I feel such an exhilaration and health that I discover that I have been defrauding myself all this time in letting others do for me what I should have done with my own hands.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Healing may not be so much about getting better, as about letting go of everything that isn't you - all of the expectations, all of the beliefs - and becoming who you are.

Rachel Naomi Remen

You have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

James Matthew Barrie

Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties

Gail Sheehy

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

Mary Beth Danielson

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

Herman Hesse

Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road back to happiness.

Tina Dayton

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.

Mary Beth Danielson

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Thich Nhat Hanh

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

Gerald Jampolsky

Some think it's holding on that makes one strong; sometimes it's letting go.

Sylvia Robinson

Forgiveness and letting go are steps on our road back to happiness.

Tina Dayton

Letting go doesn't mean giving up... it means moving on. It is one of the hardest things a person can do. Starting at birth, we grasp on to anything we can get our hands on, and hold on as if we will cease to exist when we let go. We feel that letting go is giving up, quitting, and that as we all know is cowardly. But as we grow older we are forced to change our way of thinking. We are forced to realize that letting go means accepting things that cannot be. It means maturing and moving on, no matter how hard you have to fight yourself to do so."

Unknown

As a leader... I have always endeavored to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion. Oftentimes, my own opinion will simply represent a con-sensus of what I heard in the discussion. I always remember the axiom: a leader is like a shepherd. He stays behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

Nelson Mandela

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Havelock Ellis

Abundance is a process of letting go; that which is empty can receive.

Bryant McGill

Hold on, baby you're losing it The water's high, you're jumping into it And letting go...and no one knows That you cry, but you don't tell anyone That you might not be the golden one And you're tied together with a smile But you're coming undone

Taylor Swift