These inspirational quotes about change can be applied to your personal, professional, and spiritual life.
Embracing change
“Change is the only constant in life”. This quote by Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, is true in more ways than one. Our world is constantly changing, and so are we. Even when it seems like things stay the same for a long time, change is always happening beneath the surface. We may not always be aware of it, but change is always happening.
In our personal lives, change can be exciting or scary, but it is always a part of life. There are many different kinds of changes that we go through, from the small changes that happen every day to the big changes that happen over the course of our lifetime. No matter what kind of change we’re experiencing, it can be helpful to remember that change is a natural part of life.
Here are some more quotes about change to help you through whatever changes you may be experiencing in your life:
Inspiring Quotes About Change
Change, like healing, takes time.
– Veronica Roth
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Tides do what tides do they turn.
– Derek Landy
If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.
– John A. Simone, Sr.
Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.
– Robin Sharma
Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
– John Kenneth Galbraith
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.
– William James
One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.
– Malala Yousafzai
Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?
– Diane Duane
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
– Samuel Beckett
We first make our habits, then our habits make us.
– John Dryden
I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.
– Steve Maraboli
You cannot change what you are, only what you do.
– Philip Pullman
When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.
– Haruki Murakami
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
People are very open minded about new things, as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.
– Charles F. Kettering
Best Change Quotes
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
The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.
– Aaron Lauritsen
Change is the end result of all true learning.
– Leo Buscaglia
The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.
– Susanna Kearsley
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.
– Mary Shelley
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
– Woodrow Wilson
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.
– Andy Warhol
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self destruct.
– Sam Stevens
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor
– Alexis Carrel
No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.
– Stephen King, The Stand
Don’t knock the weather; nine tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.
– Kin Hubbard
Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.
– Lisa Lutz
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.
– Jacob M. Braude
True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
– Leo Tolstoy
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Quotes that will change your life
Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.
– Arundhati Roy
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
– George Bernard Shaw
What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.
– Madeleine Albright
It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t… It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.
– James Gordon
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.
– Seth Godin
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.
– J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.
– Judith Minty
Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.
– Roy T. Bennett
I have accepted fear as part of life specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….
– Erica Jong
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.
– Ellen Glasgow
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
– Barack Obama
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
– Socrates
You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that.
– Warsan Shire
People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t
– Stephen Fry
Quotes on Change
To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.
– Stephen R. Covey
I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.
– Sylvia Plath
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
– Rumi
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
– Leo Tolstoy
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
– Wayne W. Dyer
You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
– Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
Bending beats breaking.
– Betty Greene
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
Words are where most change begins.
– Brandon Sanderson
We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.
– Walter Mosley
Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.
– Stephen King, The Green Mile
Nothing is lost . . . Everything is transformed.
– Michael Ende
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
– Norman Vincent Peale
No matter what people will tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
– Robin Williams
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
– Brene Brown
Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others it only changes yours.
– Shannon Alder
Change and Grow Quotes
People don’t change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character.
– Chad Kultgen
Nothing endures but change.
– Heraclitus
If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when?
– Hillel
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.
– Buckminster Fuller
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.
– Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.
– William S. Burroughs
The great growling engine of change technology.
– Alvin Toffler
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
– Stephen Chbosky
All is flux, nothing stays still.
– Plato
People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.
– Peter Senge
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
– Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
– Lao Tzu
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.
– Madonna
Folks, I don’t trust children. They’re here to replace us.
– Stephen Colbert
Quotes and Thoughts on Change
Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.
– Alain de Botton
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
– Eckhart Tolle
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I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better
– Plutarch
Fashion changes, but style endures.
– Coco Chanel
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
– Barbara Kingsolver
Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
– Simone de Beauvoir
he philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.
– Karl Marx
Every hundred feet the world changes.
– Roberto Bolaño
Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.
– Roy T. Bennett
People change for two reasons; either they learned a lot or they’ve been hurt too much.
– Unknown
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn.
What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
– Abraham Maslow
Changing is what people do when they have no options left.
– Holly Black
People can cry much easier than they can change.
– James Baldwin
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
– Katherine Hepburn
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.
– Dr. David Hawkins
The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.
– Terry Hayes
Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.
– Bob Dylan
Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.
– Shannon L. Alder
Quotes To Embrace Changes In Your Life
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Betsy Farrell
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.” – Walt Disney
Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
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