Change.
Sometimes we want it so bad to make life happier again. At other times it hits us on a regular Tuesday afternoon and leaves us reeling.
We can’t avoid it. But we can learn to use it in a smart way and to even embrace it.
That’s what today’s blog post is all about. In it I want to share 110 of the most inspirational, positive and deep quotes about change.
I hope you’ll find something here to give you a jolt of motivation and a bit of courage to follow through on taking a step forward that YOU really want to take.
And some comfort and reassurance that things will work out even if the future looks somewhat uncertain right now.
Inspirational Quotes About Embracing Change
“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow.”
– Lao Tzu
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
– Wayne W. Dyer
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“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.”
– Anaïs Nin
“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.”
– 14th Dalai Lama
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“Change is the only constant in life.”
– Heraclitus
“Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.”
– Stephen Hawking
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
– George Bernard Shaw
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
– Norman Vincent Peale
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.”
– Kakuzo Okakura
“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.”
– Denis Waitley
“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens.”
– Frank Herbert
“The ones who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
– Steve Jobs
“When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”
– Chinese Proverb
“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
“How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
– Anne Frank
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
– Nelson Mandela
“Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character.”
– Amanda Gorman
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
– Albert Einstein
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the water to create many ripples.”
– Mother Teresa
Quotes About Change for the Hard Times in Life
“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”
– C.S. Lewis
“Life is about change. Sometimes it’s painful, sometimes it’s beautiful, but most of the time it’s both.”
– Kristin Kreuk
“Everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms – to choose one’s attitude.”
– Viktor E. Frankl
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”
– Mandy Hale
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.”
– James Baldwin
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
– Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
– William Arthur Ward
“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
“We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.”
– Randy Pausch
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”
– Marilyn Monroe
“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
“A bend in the road is not the end of the road, unless you fail to make the turn.”
– Helen Keller
“I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.”
– Jimmy Dean
“Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next.”
– Gilda Radner
“Grief does not change you. It reveals you.”
– John Green
“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.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
– Viktor Frankl
“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
– Maya Angelou
“All great changes in life start with what may seem chaotic. When that happens, remember to breathe and then start figuring the situation out one small step at a time.”
– Joy Davies
“Remember that life’s big changes rarely give advance warning.”
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change.”
– Paulo Coelho
Short Quotes About Change
“Nothing happens unless something is moved.”
– Albert Einstein
“Discontent is the first necessity of progress.”
– Thomas Edison
“Change before you have to.”
– Jack Welch
“Every moment is a fresh beginning.”
– T.S. Eliot
“Things do not change; we change.”
– Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing endures but change.”
– Heraclitus
“Change takes courage.”
– Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
– John Maxwell
“Good things take time.”
– John Wooden
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
– Thomas Fuller
“A change is as good as a rest.”
– Stephen King
“The key to change is to let go of fear.”
– Rosanne Cash
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“There is nothing so stable as change.”
– Bob Dylan
“Change is not an event, it’s a process.”
– Cheryl James
“Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
– Ginni Rometty
“Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.”
– Raymond Lindquist
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”
– Carol Burnett
“By changing nothing, nothing changes.”
– Tony Robbins
“Words are where most change begins.”
– Brandon Sanderson
“Change in all things is sweet.”
– Aristotle
Quotes About a Promising New Beginning
“Every new beginning comes from some other beginning’s end.”
– Seneca
“The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live.”
– Flora Whittemore
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
– George Eliot
“The secret to a rich life is to have more beginnings than endings.”
– Dave Weinbaum
“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished; that will be the beginning.”
– Louis L’Amour
“You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call ‘failure’ is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
– Mary Pickford
“Celebrate endings – for they precede new beginnings.”
– Jonathan Lockwood Huie
“Nothing in the universe can stop you from letting go and starting over.”
– Guy Finley
“Forgiveness says you are given another chance to make a new beginning.”
– Desmond Tutu
“If one dream should fall and break into a thousand pieces, never be afraid to pick one of those pieces up and begin again.”
– Flavia Weedn
“Nothing is predestined. The obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings.”
– Ralph Blum
“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
– Alexander Graham Bell
“Although no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
– Carl Bard
“Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day with no mistakes in it yet?”
– L.M. Montgomery
“The beginning is the most important part of the work.”
– Plato
“Do not wait until the conditions are perfect to begin. Beginning makes the conditions perfect.”
– Alan Cohen
“This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.”
– Taylor Swift
“From the end spring new beginnings.”
– Pliny the Elder
“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
“And now let us welcome the new year, full of things that never were.”
– Rainer Maria Rilke
“New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings.”
– Lao Tzu
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
– C.S. Lewis
Motivational Quotes About Growth and Change
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”
– Jim Rohn
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”
– Gail Sheehy
“Even the greatest was once a beginner. Don’t be afraid to take that first step.”
– Muhammad Ali
“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”
– Lao Tzu
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
– Henry Ford
“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
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.”
– Abraham Maslow
“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”
– Harrison Ford
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
– Winston Churchill
“Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.”
– Tony Robbins
“You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
– Roy T. Bennett
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
– Oprah Winfrey
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
– Rumi
“Start where you are. Use what you have. Do what you can.”
– Arthur Ashe
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act. The rest is merely tenacity.”
– Amelia Earhart
“Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.”
– Robin Sharma
“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.”
– Richard Bach
“Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.”
– Alain de Botton
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.”
– John D. Rockefeller
“The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.”
– Walt Disney
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
– Andy Warhol
“If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.”
– Dolly Parton
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