Change Quotes

"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent. It is the one most adaptable to change."

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

"Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new."

"Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal."

"All great changes are preceded by chaos."

"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."

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time."

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance."

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

"Things do not change; we change."

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong."

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

"The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind."

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

"No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it's not the same river and he's not the same man."

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg."

"Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win."

"Change is not merely necessary to life — it is life."

"People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing."

"One day or day one. You decide."

"Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end."

"Life is about change. Sometimes it's painful. Sometimes it's beautiful. But most of the time it's both."

"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."

"The only constant in life is change."

"Every day the clock resets. Your wins don't matter. Your failures don't matter. Don't stress on what was, fight for what could be."

"We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."

"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass but about learning how to dance in the rain."

"Small steps every day lead to big changes over time."

"The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails."

"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly."

"Just when the caterpillar thought the world was ending, it became a butterfly."

"What you resist persists. What you accept transforms."

"Change before you have to."

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."

"Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go."

"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

"Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end."

"You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending."

"Let go of who you think you're supposed to be and embrace who you are."

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

"Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs."

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

"Progress requires unlearning. Becoming the best version of yourself requires you to continuously edit your beliefs, and to upgrade and expand your identity."

"Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won't have a title until much later."

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

"I wanted to change the world. But I found the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

"If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down."

"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."

"The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."

"Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered."

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world — begin with yourself."

"Open your arms to change but don't let go of your values."

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

"A wise man adapts himself to circumstances as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it."

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."