July 22 2023

Best 101 Quotes about Change that Embrace Transformation

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Although it’s a feature of living organisms, change is often hard and we tend to try to avoid it. Then again, changing is a part of progress, which has been an everlasting goal for mankind. This contradiction makes change a really interesting topic that so many intellectuals, philosophers, artists, poets and other famous people have commented on.

This collection of the greatest famous quotes about change claims to convey the impact of all those important words. You can share with friends that need to move on, with the ones going through tough times or with those that are proud to have made it.

Inspirational quotes about change

Positive quotes about change
Quotes about change and growth
Famous quotes about change

Quotes about change for the better
Motivational quotes about change
Quotes about change in business
Quotes about changing yourself

Quotes about accepting change
Quotes about change and love
Short quotes about change
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Inspirational quotes about change

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone De Beauvoir
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. Sean Higgins
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go. Bob Proctor

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
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. Libba Bray
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou

Positive quotes about change

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude. Oprah Winfrey
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Dr. Seuss
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. Harriet Tubman

Our only security is our ability to change. John Lilly
Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future. John F. Kennedy
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol
Many little people, in little places, doing little things, can change the world. Eduardo Galeano

Quotes about change and growth

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. John Maxwell
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. Gail Sheehy
Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong. N. R. Narayana Murthy
Change can be scary, but you know what’s scarier? Allowing fear to stop you from growing, evolving, and progressing. Mandy Hale
You can’t fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change. Julie Newmar

All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there’s no growth. Mimi Kennedy
Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Change and growth is so painful. But it’s so necessary for us to evolve. Sarah McLachlan
The garden is growth and change and that means loss as well as constant new treasures to make up for a few disasters. May Sarton
The biggest impediment to growth is in our minds and not in the world outside, and only constant in the world is change. N. R. Narayana Murthy

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. Georg C. Lichtenberg

Famous quotes about change

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. Anonymous
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw

Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time. Ruth Bader Ginsburg
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. Charles Darwin
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times. Niccolo Machiavelli
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. Lao Tzu

A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn. Helen Keller
When you’re finished changing, you’re finished. Benjamin Franklin
How puzzling all these changes are! I’m never sure what I’m going to be, from one minute to another. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Quotes about change for the better

One cause of misery is the inability to change. Edward Counsel
Nothing happens until the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change. Arthur Burt

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill
If you wish to be happy, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change. Christopher Paolini

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being. Jennifer Hudson
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. Arnold Bennett

Motivational quotes about change

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Lao Tzu
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself. C. JoyBell C.
You can change who you are and what you are by changing what goes into your mind. Zig Ziglar

Quotes about change in business

Slowness to change usually means fear of the new. Philip Crosby
Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers, and business. Mark Sanborn

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. Barack Obama
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon
Don’t let rejection create self-doubt. The founder of Starbucks was turned down by 217 of the 242 investors he initially spoke with. Elizabeth Galbut
Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up. James Belasco and Ralph Stayer
The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic. Peter Drucker

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Niccolo Machiavelli
Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed – the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day. Frances Hesselbein
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson

Quotes about changing yourself

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

If you wait, all that happens is you get older. Larry McMurtry
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxley
Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person. Leo Tolstoy
People don’t resist change. They resist being changed! Peter Senge
The need for change bulldozed a road down the centre of my mind. Maya Angelou
Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. M.F. Ryan

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. Chinese Proverb
Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. Bikram Choudhury
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
Suffering is part and parcel of the human condition, but suffering can either embitter or ennoble us. It can ennoble us and become a spirituality of transformation when we find meaning in it. Desmond Tutu

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up. Andy Law
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; because what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves and we must die in one life before we can enter another. Anatole France

Quotes about accepting change

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy
What I like most about change is that it’s a synonym for hope. If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it. Linda Ellerbee
Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late. Seth Godin

It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t… It’s that some people are ready to change and other are not. James Gordan
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. Alan W. Watts

Quotes about change and love

If you really love something, you never try to keep it the way it is forever. You have to let it be free to change. Cassandra Clare
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
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. Lemony Snicket

The best love is the one that makes you a better person, without changing you into someone other than yourself. Anonymous
Love is an attempt to change a piece of a dream world into reality. Theodor Reik
I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change. Nicholas Sparks
Do not swear by the moon, for she changes constantly. then your love would also change. William Shakespeare
Love hasn’t changed, and it never will, no matter what kind of a society we become. Vicky Kaushal

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change. Ramsay Clark
It’s not the changes that will break your heart; it’s that tug of familiarity. Jennifer E. Smith
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
Love is not complicated; people are, and that is changing the perception of love. Vicky Kaushal
Just because you don’t see someone doesn’t mean the love has changed. Gerry Cooney

Love changes our brain, the way we move and talk. Love lives in our spirit and graces us with its presence each day, until death. Jamie Weise
People die . . . so love them every day. Beauty fades . . . so look before it’s gone. Love changes . . . but not the love you give. And if you love, you’ll never be alone. L.J. Smith
One day spent with someone you love can change everything. Mitch Albom