Change Quotes
Accomplishing anything great in life requires us to make significant changes that push us beyond our comfort zones. Change can be difficult and very scary, but it is a decision we must make if we want to improve our lives and achieve great things.
We have compiled a list of change quotes to remind you that embracing change might be exactly what you need to move to the next phase of your life.
70 Inspirational Quotes About Change
“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.” – Barak Obama
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” – Mother Theresa
“You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It’s by taking chances that you’ll learn how to be brave.” – Charles Darwin
“Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.” – Joyce Meyer
“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne W. Dyer
“Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.” – Ali Vincent
“If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou
“We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.” – Dr. David Hawkins
“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
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” – Leo Tolstoy
“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
“God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” – Denis Waitley
“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
“If you want things in your life to change, you have to change things in your life” – Kevin Trudeau
“Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.” – Rev. Billy Graham
“Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change.” – Catherine Pulsifer
“The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps.” – Steve Maraboli
“If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.” – Martin Luther
“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
“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” – Winston Churchill
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky
“Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.” – William Arthur Ward
“All things must change to something new, to something strange.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Victor Frankl
“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” – Jim Rohn
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
“Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin
“The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.” – Alfred North Whitehead
“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” – Arnold Bennett
“Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” – Seth Godin
“Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.” – Dalai Lama
“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller
“We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.” – John Wooden
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.” – Arthur Shopenhauer
“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett
“There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.” – Josh Billings
“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale
“Fashion changes, but style endures.” – Coco Chanel
“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
“To change one’s life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.” – William James
“Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.” – Steve Backley
“If you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better.” – Philip Vang
“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
“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
“Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.” – Robert Brault
“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
“The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.” – Karl Marx
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
“Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” – John Wooden
“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
“You must welcome change as the rule, but not as your ruler.” – Denis Waitley
“Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.” – Frank Herbert
“Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” – Debby Boone
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.” – Andy Warhol
“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.” – Hariet Tubman
“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman
“No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Change yourself and your work will seem different.” – Norman Vincent Peale
“You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.” – Orrin Woodward
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.” – Aldous Huxley
“Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around.” – Roy T. Bennett
“Change your thinking, change your life” – Ernest Holmes