130 Quotes about Change to Help You Grow in Life

Change is integral part of life. Change allows us to move forward in life and experience new and exciting things. Life can become stagnant, if we do not change with the need of hour. Here we have curated uplifting Quotes about Change to help you to get that little push before you try to take big changes in life.

Quotes about Change

1. “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change” ~ Albert Einstein

2. “The only thing constant in this world is change.” ~ Invajy

3. “Change before you have to.” ~ Jack Welch

4. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw

5. “The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.” ~ Bill Clinton

6. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” ~ Stephen Chbosky
7. “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” ~ Maya Angelou
8. “Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” ~ Mandy Hale
9. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
10. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” ~ Nelson Mandela

Change Quotes

11. “Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.” ~ Nikos Kazantzakis
12. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ~ Mother Teresa
13. “Change, like healing, takes time.” ~ Veronica Roth
14. “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
15. “Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” ~ Sydney J. Harris
16. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein
17. “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
18. “Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at.” ~ Jason Lemkin
19. “To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.” ~ William James
20. “Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future” ~ John F. Kennedy

Quotes about Change in life

21. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ~ Rumi
22. “If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. And, If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
23. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better” ~ Plutarch
24. “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” ~ Mary Shelley
25. “If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said ‘Don’t change anything.’” ~ Henry Ford
26. “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
27. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” ~ John C. Maxwell
28. “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
29. “In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.” ~ Jimi Hendrix
30. “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

Inspirational Quotes about Change

31. “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
32. “I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.” ~ Jimmy Dean
33. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne W. Dyer
34. “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
35. “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
36. “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” ~ Libba Bray
37. “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
38. “Things don’t have to change the world to be important” ~ Steve Jobs
39. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ~ James Baldwin
40. “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

Best Quotes about Change

41. “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
42. “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
43. “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
44. “Fashion changes, but style endures.” ~ Coco Chanel
45. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ~ Buckminster Fuller
46. “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” ~ Philip Pullman
47. “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
48. “Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.” ~ Stephen King
49. “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
50. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” ~ Karl Marx

Short Quotes about Change

51. “All things are difficult before they are easy.” ~ Thomas Fuller
52. “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” ~ C.S. Lewis
53. “Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
54. “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
55. “Change in all things is sweet.” ~ Aristotle
56. “Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
57. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” ~ Leo Buscaglia
58. “Nothing endures but change.” ~ Heraclitus
59. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” ~ Ginni Rometty
60. “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” ~ Confucius

Quotes about Change

61. “Miracles happen every day, change your perception of what a miracle is and you’ll see them all around you.” ~ Jon Bon Jovi
62. “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
63. “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others~ it only changes yours.” ~ Shannon Alder
64. “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.
65. “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” ~ Malala Yousafzai
66. “In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.” ~ Jacque Fresco
67. “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
68. “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
69. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” ~ John D. Rockefeller
70. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” ~ Brene Brown

Life Changing Quotes

71. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” ~ Winston S. Churchill
72. “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
73. “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
74. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” ~ Steve Jobs
75. “A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.” ~ Proverb
76. “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
77. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn.” ~ Helen Keller
78. “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
79. “Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.” ~ Lisa Lutz
80. “Moving doesn’t change who you are. It only changes the view outside your window.” ~ Rachel Hollis

Quotes on Change

81. “Changing is what people do when they have no options left.” ~ Holly Black
82. “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” ~ Stephen R. Covey
83. “Nothing is lost . . . Everything is transformed.” ~ Michael Ende
84. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ~ Mahatma Gandhi
85. “The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.” ~ Barbara Kingsolver
86. “If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.” ~ Katherine Hepburn
87. “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
88. “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
89. “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
90. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale

Change is Good Quotes

91. “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
92. “Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.” ~ Alain de Botton
93. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” ~ Woodrow Wilson
94. “The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.” ~ Ellen Glasgow
95. “People are very open-minded about new things, as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.” ~ Charles F. Kettering
96. “The great growling engine of change – technology.” ~ Alvin Toffler
97. “Folks, I don’t trust children. They’re here to replace us.” ~ Stephen Colbert
98. “No matter what people will tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” ~ Robin Williams
99. “People change for two reasons; either they learned a lot or they’ve been hurt too much.” ~ Anonymous
100. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” ~ Socrates

Time for Change Quotes

101. “Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.” ~ Bob Dylan
102. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” ~ Simone de Beauvoir
103. “Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.” ~ Robin Sharma
104. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” ~ Virginia Woolf
105. “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” ~ John Dryden
106. “Words are where most change begins.” ~ Brandon Sanderson
107. “People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t” ~ Stephen Fry
108. “What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.” ~ Madeleine Albright
109. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” ~ Anatole France
110. “People can cry much easier than they can change.” ~ James Baldwin

Quotes about Change

111. “Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” ~ Seth Godin
112. “People don’t change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character.” ~ Chad Kultgen
113. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” ~ William Arthur Ward
114. “Every hundred feet the world changes.” ~ Roberto Bolaño
115. “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
116. “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
117. “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” ~ Abraham Maslow
118. “It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.” ~ Samuel Beckett
119. “If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
120. “All is flux, nothing stays still.” ~ Plato

Best Change Quotes

121. “People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.” ~ Peter Senge
122. “Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self-destruct.” ~ Sam Stevens
123. “Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.” ~ Arundhati Roy
124. “We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.” ~ Dr. David Hawkins
125. “The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.” ~ Aaron Lauritsen
126. “Bending beats breaking.” ~ Betty Greene
127. “The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.” ~ Terry Hayes
128. “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor” ~ Alexis Carrel
129. “Tides do what tides do-they turn.” ~ Derek Landy
130. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” ~ Oprah Winfrey

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