There’s a saying that nothing is consistent except. In every aspect of our lives, we have all found this to be true. There will always be changes, both expected and planned. How we respond to changes that come our way speaks volumes about who we are and what we value. It is possible to get some guidance and support during difficult times. So I have created a list of quotes about change. You can find more inspiration for your journey of self-awareness & personal development in our collection of Growth Quotes.
Quotes about Change
- “Change, like healing, takes time.” ― Veronica Roth
- “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky
- “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy
“Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
– GEORGE BERNARD SHAW
- “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ― Mother Teresa
- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein
- “To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.” ― William James
- “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” ― Rumi
- “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better” – Plutarch
- “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”― Mary Shelley
- “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ― Wayne W. Dyer
- “Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” ― Eckhart Tolle
“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “Fashion changes, but style endures.” ― Coco Chanel
- “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” ― Buckminster Fuller
- “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” ― Philip Pullman
- “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” – Karl Marx
- “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
- “All that you touch You Change.All that you Change Changes you.The only lasting truth is Change.God is Change.” ― Octavia E. Butler
- “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.” ― Shannon Alder
- “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
- “One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.” ― Malala Yousafzai
- “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” ― Brene Brown
- “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” ― Winston S. Churchill
- “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
- “Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” ― Leo Tolstoy
- “Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- . “Change is the end result of all true learning.” ― Leo Buscaglia
- “Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.” ― Lisa Lutz
- “Changing is what people do when they have no options left.” ― Holly Black
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- “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” ― Stephen R. Covey
- “Nothing is lost . . . Everything is transformed.” ― Michael Ende
- “The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.” ― Barbara Kingsolver
- “If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.” ― Katherine Hepburn
- “It’s not that some people have willpower and some don’t… It’s that some people are ready to change and others are not.” ― James Gordon
- “Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.” — Kin Hubbard
- “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” ― Norman Vincent Peale
- “Nothing endures but change.” ― Heraclitus
- “The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.” ― Susanna Kearsley
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” – Woodrow Wilson
- “People are very open-minded about new things, as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.” – Charles F. Kettering
- “The great growling engine of change – technology.” – Alvin Toffle
- “Folks, I don’t trust children. They’re here to replace us.” – Stephen Colbert
- “No matter what people will tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams
- “People change for two reasons; either they learned a lot or they’ve been hurt too much.” – Unknown
- “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates
- “Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.” ― Bob Dylan
- “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
- “Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.” ― Robin Sharma
- “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” ― John Dryden
- “Words are where most change begins.” ― Brandon Sanderson
- “People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t” ― Stephen Fry
- “What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.” -Madeleine Albright
- “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” ― Anatole France
- “People can cry much easier than they can change.” ― James Baldwin
- “Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” ― Seth Godin
- “People don’t change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character.” ― Chad Kultgen
- “Every hundred feet the world changes.” ― Roberto Bolaño
- “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 is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” ― Abraham Maslow
- “All is flux, nothing stays still.” ― Plato
- “People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.” ― Peter Senge
- “Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self-destruct.” ― Sam Stevens
- “Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.” ― Arundhati Roy
- “We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.” ― Dr. David Hawkins
- “The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.” ― Terry Hayes
- “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor” ― Alexis Carrel
- “Tides do what tides do–they turn.” ― Derek Landy
- “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey
- “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” — Confucius
