Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. Confucius
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. Anne Frank
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change. Stephen Hawking
One day or day one. You decide. Unknown
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Today was good. Today was fun. Tomorrow is another one. Dr. Seuss
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. Gail Sheehy
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. James Baldwin
Let him that would move the world first move himself. Socrates
Love change, fear staying the same. Maxime Lagacé
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. Wayne Dyer
Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone. Billy Cox
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surrounding. Kakuzo Okakura (The Book Of Tea)
People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them. Ralph Waldo Emerson
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. Abraham Maslow
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The Best Quotes About Change
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves. Viktor Frankl
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Nothing happens unless something is moved. Albert Einstein
All great changes are preceded by chaos. Deepak Chopra
If I am an advocate for anything, it is to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Anthony Bourdain
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. Chinese proverb
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death. Anais Nin
Lack of emotion causes lack of progress and lack of motivation. Tony Robbins Click to tweet
Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. Leo Tolstoy Click to tweet
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new. Socrates (Dan Millman, Way of the Peaceful Warrior)
The larger the change, the more people will resist it. Thus, make it seem so tiny and trivial that people don’t even realize it. Maxime Lagacé
That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular and the most inexplicable that we may encounter. Rainer Maria Rilke
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. William Arthur Ward
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Alfred North Whitehead
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. Ralph Waldo Emerson Click to tweet
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right. Tony Robbins
After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. Alfred Edward Perlman
What can we take on trust in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness, pride — nothing is secure, nothing keeps. Euripides
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. Henri Bergson
If you want to make enemies, try to change something. Woodrow Wilson
Sometimes the winds of change are a hurricane. Derek Sivers
I didn’t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it. Estée Lauder
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Part 2. Quotes About Change That Are…
The Most Famous Quotes About Change (Thoreau, Twain, Gandhi, etc.)
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Maya Angelou
Things do not change; we change. Henry David Thoreau Click to tweet
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples. Mother Teresa
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values. Dalai Lama
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. Winston Churchill
The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. Abraham Lincoln (Annual message to Congress, December 1, 1862)
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got. Henry Ford
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. Confucius
The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do. Steve Jobs
You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in. Heraclitus
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not. Dr. Seuss
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door. Coco Chanel
I am always doing that which I can not do, in order that I may learn how to do it. Pablo Picasso Click to tweet
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. Mark Twain
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
Part 1. I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind. Thomas Jefferson
Part 2. As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times. Thomas Jefferson
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it. Niccolo Machiavelli
Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total of all those acts will be written the history of this generation. Robert F. Kennedy
Change will not come if we wait for some other person or if we wait for some time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. Barack Obama
The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging. Warren Buffett
A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new. Albert Einstein Click to tweet
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin
If you accept the expectations of others, especially negative ones, then you never will change the outcome. Michael Jordan
All of us, every single year, we’re a different person. I don’t think we’re the same person all our lives. Steven Spielberg
You don’t learn to walk by following rules. You learn by doing and by falling over. Richard Branson (Virgin)
Believe you can and you’re halfway there. Theodore Roosevelt
If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door. Milton Berle
Your past does not equal your future. Tony Robbins
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Our only security is our ability to change. John Lilly
All is flux; nothing stays still. Heraclitus Click to tweet
All things change; nothing perishes. Ovid
It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows. Epictetus
Think progress, not perfection. Ryan Holiday
The universe is transformation; our life is what our thoughts make it. Marcus Aurelius
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don’t recognize them. Ann Landers
All good things must come to an end. Geoffrey Chaucer
Change is inevitable. Change is constant. Benjamin Disraeli
Enter new waters. Robert Greene
Life is a progress, and not a station. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. George Will
The world is changed by your example, not by your opinion. Tim Ferriss
People change. Memories don’t. Unknown
The only way out is through. Unknown
Old ways won’t open new doors. Unknown
One small positive thought can change your whole day. Unknown
Pain makes people change. Unknown
Change is the end result of all true learning. Leo Buscaglia Click to tweet
People change and forget to tell each other. Lillian Hellman
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. Christina Baldwin
The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals. Madame de Staël
Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. Anthony J. D’Angelo
Change always comes bearing gifts. Price Pritchett
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal. Arthur Schopenhauer
Everything comes to pass, nothing comes to stay. Matthew Flickstein
Don’t wait for the right opportunity, create it. George Bernard Shaw
If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Frederick Douglass
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Inspirational Quotes About Change
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn Click to tweet
We can change our lives. We can do, have, and be exactly what we wish. Tony Robbins
We made the world we’re living in and we have to make it over. James Baldwin
If you want peace, be above your desires. If you want meaning, change something important to you. Maxime Lagacé
If you never did you should. These things are fun, and fun is good. Dr. Seuss
You’re off to great places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So get on your way! Dr. Seuss
You’ll be on your way up! You’ll be seeing great sights! You’ll join the high fliers who soar to high heights. Dr. Seuss
Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference. Mignon McLaughlin
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations. Anais Nin
The most important thing to remember is this: To be ready at any moment to give up what you are for what you might become. W.E.B. Du Bois
What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him. Victor Frankl
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create. Oprah Winfrey
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do, so throw off the bowlines, sail away from safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, dream, discover. Mark Twain
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
I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. Lucille Ball
We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing. Maria Mitchell
See also: 7 Little Habits That Can Change Your Life, and How to Form Them (zenhabits.net)
Part 1. For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. Eric Roth
Part 2. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. Eric Roth
Part 3. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. Eric Roth
Part 4. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. Eric Roth
Part 5. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again. Eric Roth (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)
The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning. Ivy Baker Priest Click to tweet
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual – for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost. M. Scott Peck
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. Pauline R. Kezer
Every positive change in your life begins with a clear, unequivocal decisions that you are going to either do something or stop doing something. Unknown
Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later. Bob Goff
Your journey has molded you for the greater good, and it was exactly what it needed to be. Don’t think that you’ve lost time. There is no short-cutting to life. It took each and every situation you have encountered to bring you to the now. And now is right on time. Asha Tyson
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve. Oliver Wendell Holmes
They can take away your life but they can’t take away your will to live. They can crush your dreams but they can’t crush your ability to dream. They can break your heart but they can’t break your desire to love. The world can’t change you. Only you can. Mark Manson
Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction can be the biggest step of your life. Naeem Callaway
Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end. Unknown
What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly. Richard Bach
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Funny And Surprising Quotes About Change
You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea. Pearl S. Buck
Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine. Robert C. Gallagher Click to tweet
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
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
Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations. Faith Baldwin
It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory. W. Edwards Deming Click to tweet
Deep Quotes About Change
The more you adapt, the more interesting you are. Martha Stewart Click to tweet
We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it. John Steinbeck
You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. Denis Waitley
You always have the choice between comfort and discomfort, mediocrity and growth, fitting in and standing out. Maxime Lagacé
To change is to think greater than how we feel. To change is to act greater than the familiar feelings of the memorized self. Joe Dispenza (See also: Joe Dispenza – Fastest Way to REWIRE Your Mind, 18-minute YouTube video)
To change is to think greater than your environment. Joe Dispenza
Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. Thomas A Kempis
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species – man – acquired significant power to alter the nature of his world. Rachel Carson
People don’t change. Only their costumes do. Gene Moore
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you. John Green (The Fault in Our Stars)
The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next. Helen Keller
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself. Norman Vincent Peale
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Harrison Ford
Part 1. For nothing is fixed, forever and forever and forever, it is not fixed; the earth is always shifting, the light is always changing, the sea does not cease to grind down rock. James Baldwin
Part 2. Generations do not cease to be born, and we are responsible to them because we are the only witnesses they have. The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. James Baldwin
We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves. Lynn Hall
Change means movement. Movement means friction. Only in the frictionless vacuum of a nonexistent abstract world can movement or change occur without that abrasive friction of conflict. Saul Alinsky
Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer. Shunryu Suzuki
Your mind is your predicament. It wants to be free of change. Free of pain, free of the obligations of life and death. But change is law and no amount of pretending will alter that reality. Socrates
See also: How to Change Your Life – Mark Manson (markmanson.net)
No two men ever judged alike of the same thing, and it is impossible to find two opinions exactly similar, not only in different men but in the same men at different times. Michel Montaigne
On the precipice of any great change, we can see with terrifying clarity the familiar firm footing we stand to lose, but we fill the abyss of the unfamiliar before us with dread at the potential loss rather than jubilation over the potential gain of gladnesses and gratifications we fail to envision because we haven’t yet experienced them. Maria Popova
In nature every moment is new; the past is always swallowed and forgotten… Nothing is secure but life, transition, the energizing spirit. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The need for certainty is the greatest disease the mind faces. Robert Greene Click to tweet
Change may be alarming, but it is also refreshing – even exhilarating. Robert Greene
The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. Henry Miller
The past is the present, and the present the future, to the non-progressive mind. James Lendall Basford
Every beginning is a consequence — every beginning ends some thing. Paul Valery
Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor. Alexis Carrell
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are. Bertold Brecht
If you want to truly understand something, try to change it. Kurt Lewin
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Wise Quotes About Change (Words Of Wisdom)
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists. Japanese proverb Click to tweet
A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. Confucius
You cannot change what you are, only what you do. Philip Pullman
Everybody wants to change others. Nobody wants to be changed. Naval Ravikant
If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong. Charles Kettering
Amateurs see change coming and become scared. Geniuses seek change and arrive at flow the closer they get to truth. Maxime Lagacé
Growth requires both obsession and objectivity. The obsession to do things we don’t know are going to work. The objectivity to change things when they don’t. Jack Butcher
Personal transformation is not a group affair. It’s a single player game. Groups are where everything significant becomes confounded and gets lost amid promiscuous non seriousness. Only the individual can sustain the purity, focus and prolonged intensity needed for radical change. The Ancient Sage
Understanding is the foundation of lasting change. Change that comes from discipline is not organic. It is repression. It doesn’t get rid of the underlying issue. Change that comes from understanding is effortless. When you understand the harm of a habit it drops spontaneously. The Ancient Sage
Thinking is by far the most underrated activity. People consider it “unproductive” to sit on a bench and think. So they spend their lives doing things they never thought through. An hour of clear thinking, can yield a conclusion that changes your life. Johnny Uzan
You have to know who you are to grow your potential. But you have to grow in order to know who you are. John C. Maxwell
Progress is deciding what to stop doing. Jack Butcher
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
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. Andy Warhol
All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride. Sophocles
Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour. Arthur Schopenhauer
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then, I contradict myself; I am large – I contain multitudes. Walt Whitman
If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less. General Eric Shinseki
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change. Thomas Hardy
Do not waste time on things you cannot change or influence. Robert Greene
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away. Frida Kahlo
Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant. Stephen Sigmund
Everything will be alright does not mean everything will stay the same. Unknown Click to tweet
The 3 C’s in life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the Choice, to take the Chance, if you want anything in life to Change. Unknown
Don’t be afraid to change. You may lose something good, but you may gain something even better. Unknown
Every ultimate fact is only the first of a new series… The new statement is always hated by the old, and, to those dwelling in the old, comes like an abyss of skepticism. Ralph Waldo Emerson
You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be. Marianne Williamson
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. Joan Wallach Scott
The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake
Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you are going to be thinking tomorrow. Glen Beaman
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
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want. Mignon McLaughlin
The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down. Jawaharlal Nehru
People around you, constantly under the pull of their emotions, change their ideas by the day or by the hour, depending on their mood. You must never assume that what people say or do in a particular moment is a statement of their permanent desires. Robert Greene
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward. Ellen Glasgow
Why fit in when you were born to stand out? Dr. Seuss
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Part 3. Poems About Change
Poem #1
Listen to the Exhortation of the Dawn!
Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of your Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendor of Beauty;
For Yesterday is but a Dream,
And To-morrow is only a Vision;
But To-day well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore to this Day!
Such is the Salutation of the Dawn! Kalidasa
Poem #2
Whosoever wishes to know about the world must learn about it in its particular details.
Knowledge is not intelligence.
In searching for the truth be ready for the unexpected.
Change alone is unchanging.
The same road goes both up and down.
The beginning of a circle is also its end.
Not I, but the world says it: all is one.
And yet everything comes in season. Heraclitus
Part 4. Conclusion
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. Click to tweet
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Table Of Contents
Part 1
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Best Change Quotes
Part 2
Changes Quotes That ARE
Famous
Short
Inspirational
Funny
Deep
Wise
Part 3
Poems About Change
Part 4
Conclusion
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Thanks for sharing this good collection of quotes. The most inspiring quote for me is “To succeed in this world, you have to change all the time” Sam Walton
Hi Faisal,
thanks for your comment!
Yes, this quote from Sam Walton couldn’t be truer today.
Regards,
Maxime
heart touching words
thank you for sharing
Never let your conclusion be, in remorse, “I could have done something more”, but rather, in confidence, “I could have done nothing more.” Jason Ames
That’s beautiful Jason.
Thanks for sharing your quote with us.
Regards,
Maxime
your quotes are fresh dew upon my thoughts as i plan my meditations daily for the people i lead. thank you! stay on top!!! reach for the stars!! winners are always at the top!! losers choose the bottom! – manson b johnson
Thanks for your kind words.
Keep inspiring people.
Regards,
Maxime