Whether you’re facing small adjustments or major life changes, these quotes about change will inspire you to move forward with confidence.
Quotes About Change
“Change is the only constant in life.” – Heraclitus
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” – John C. Maxwell
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
“Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein
“When you are finished changing, you are finished.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale
“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan Watts
“Change is not something that we should fear. Rather, it is something that we should welcome. For without change, nothing in this world would ever grow or blossom, and no one in this world would ever move forward to become the person they’re meant to be.” – B.K.S. Iyengar
“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle, and best at the end.” – Robin Sharma
“Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” – Confucius
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
“The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.” – Bill Clinton
“In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or to step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
“Change is the end result of all true learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
“Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller
“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
“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
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor Frankl
“Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – N.R. Narayana Murthy
“People change and forget to tell each other.” – Lillian Hellman
“Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus
“Embrace uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later.” – Bob Goff
“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra
“Change is the process by which the future invades our lives.” – Alvin Toffler
“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.” – Marilyn Monroe
“The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” – Kakuzo Okakura
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“It is never too late to be what you might have been.” – George Eliot
“We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
“Change brings opportunity.” – Nido Qubein
“Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.” – Walt Whitman
“A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.” – Chinese Proverb
“The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.” – Arthur C. Clarke
“When you least expect it, something great will come along. Something better than you ever planned for.” – Anonymous
“You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret… is to press play.” – Jay Asher
“You can’t change what’s going on around you until you start changing what’s going on within you.” – Zig Ziglar
“We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.” – Max DePree
“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” – Keri Russell
“Sometimes we’re tested not to show our weaknesses, but to discover our strengths.” – Anonymous
“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
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler.” – Denis Waitley
“Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.” – Billy Cox
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” – Henri Bergson
“Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.” – Esther Dyson
“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
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.” – Peter Drucker
