Quotes About Change and Growth in Your Life
These quotes about change address growth issues in your life. Life changes, and people change, which are issues that every generation faces.
To gain some perspective, please review the collection of insights below so that you can embrace change with fewer worries.
Best Change Quotes
1.) Your life does not get better by chance; it gets better by change.
Jim Rohn
2.) You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
3.) It’s funny how you can know somebody for so long, and they change right in front of you.
Karina Barton
4.) It’s amazing. Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.
Lindsey Vonn
5.) Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead
6.) Light precedes every transition. Whether at the end of a tunnel, through a crack in the door or the flash of an idea, it is always there, heralding a new beginning.
Teresa Tsalaky
People Change Quotes
7.) I don’t know that love changes. People change. Circumstances change.
Nicholas Sparks
8.) People change and forget to tell each other.
Lillian Hellman
9.) Sometimes, it’s not the people who change; it’s the mask that falls off.
Unknown
10.) Some people change when they think they’re a star or something.
Paris Hilton
11.) Time is something that interests me a whole lot – past and present, and how the past appears as people change.
Alice Munro
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Transformation Quotations
12.) People underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing.
John Porter
13.) People change over the years, and that changes situations for good and for bad.
Bobby Knight
14.) You collect people to take with you. Some people change, other people don’t… it’s wonderful because I’ve met some incredible friends.
Imogen Poots
15.) Some people change their ways when they see the light; others when they feel the heat.
Caroline Schoeder
Change in Life Sayings
16.) Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather
17.) A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you’re in and take advantage of it.
Nikki Giovanni
18.) Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.
Maria Robinson
19.) 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
20.) One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
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Transitioning Quotes
21.) 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
22.) I’m a big believer that life changes as much as you want it to.
Martin Freeman
23.) When you are transitioning to a new season of life, the people and situations that no longer fit you will fall away.
Mandy Hale
24.) God, life changes faster than you think.
Amy Tan
25.) Life is a transition from one form to another. The life of this world is the material for a new form.
Leo Tolstoy
Inspirational and Positive Quotes
26.) Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
27.) When shifts and transitions in life shake you to the core, see that as a sign of greatness that’s about to occur.
Unknown
28.) In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become an expert at changing our minds.
Jacque Fresco
29.) The more we can lower or even eliminate the activation energy for our desired actions, the more we enhance our ability to jump-start positive change.
Shawn Achor
30.) I truly believe the intention of creating positive change is so important to the collective consciousness.
Jimmy Chin
31.) Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Rob Siltanen
32.) Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges.
Jim George
33.) The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being.
Lech Walesa
34.) Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.
Bikram Choudhury
Changing Yourself Quotes
35.) When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Victor Frankl
36.) When you are through changing, you are through.
Bruce Barton
37.) Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
38.) The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
39.) You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.
Neil Gaiman
40.) Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future; act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir
41.) I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
Life-Changing Quotes
42.) When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.
Paulo Coelho
43.) Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
44.) My life is constantly under construction. There’s always something to improve.
Unknown
45.) Those who seek a better life must first become a better person.
Jim Rohn
46.) If you continuously compete with others, you become bitter, but if you continuously compete with yourself you become better.
Unknown
47.) Improvement begins with I – that’s no coincidence.
Andy Atticus
48.) Change equals self-improvement. Push yourself to places you haven’t been before.
Pat Summitt
49.) Work on yourself more than you do on your job.
Jim Rohn
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Famous Quotes About Change
50.) There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self.
Ernest Hemingway
51.) The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
52.) If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.
Tony Robbins
53.) The good and bad things are what form us as people. Change makes us grow.
Kate Winslet
54.) To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
55.) Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.
Terence McKenna
56.) 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
57.) Change is the law of life, and those who look only to the past and present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
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58.) How can you know what you’re capable of if you don’t embrace the unknown?
Esmeralda Santiago
59.) Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
60.) It doesn’t matter where you are; you are nowhere compared to where you can go.
Bob Proctor
61.) The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.
Socrates
62.) In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow
63.) 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.
Barack Obama
Positive Quotes About Change
64.) Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
65.) The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
66.) Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Sydney J. Harris
67.) No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change and become a better version of yourself.
Madonna
68.) Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.
Billy Cox
69.) It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem.
Coretta Scott King
70.) Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
Short Quotes About Change
71.) True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
Leo Tolstoy
72.) Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.
Dalai Lama
73.) The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
74.) The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings. Kakuzo Okakura
75.) All great changes are preceded by chaos.
Deepak Chopra
By Michael O’Halloran
Michael O’Halloran founded Greeting Card Poet in 2014 and has worked as its publisher and editor ever since. He has co-authored four books on kids’ trivia and four on coaching. Previously, Michael was the president of Magnetic Poetry. He has invented and brought to market over 75 new gift and toy products, most of which involve wordplay. Mike is married and a father of four daughters.
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