101 Quotes About Change (to Help You Live Your Best Life)

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Today I’d like to share the best and most powerful quotes about change.

Because change is inevitable. Sometimes it surprises and tackles us on a regular Tuesday afternoon.

At other times we may simply realize that a change is needed to live a happier, less stressful or more successful life.

So in this post you’ll find 101 of the most helpful and thought-provoking quotes about dealing with change and about making a change happen in your own life.

Inspirational Quotes about Change in Life

โ€œBe the change that you wish to see in the world.โ€
Mahatma Gandhi

โ€œYou never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.โ€
Roy T. Bennett

โ€œIf you donโ€™t like something change it; if you canโ€™t change it, change the way you think about it.โ€
Mary Engelbreit

โ€œOnly I can change my life. No one can do it for me.โ€
Carol Burnett

โ€œLife 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.โ€
Lao Tzu

โ€œIf you can’t change it, change your attitude.โ€
Maya Angelou

โ€œWords are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.โ€
Joyce Meyer

โ€œI didnโ€™t get there by wishing for it or hoping for it, but by working for it.โ€
Estรฉe Lauder

โ€œWhen patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.โ€
Tuli Kupferberg

โ€œVulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.โ€
Brene Brown

โ€œA ship in a harbor is safe, but thatโ€™s not why ships are builtโ€
John A. Shedd

โ€œWhen the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.โ€
Chinese proverb

โ€œBe miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your choice.โ€
Wayne Dyer

โ€œThe changes we dread most may contain our salvation.โ€
Barbara Kingsolver

โ€œEven if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around. Life is too short to waste your time on people who donโ€™t respect, appreciate, and value you. Spend your life with people who make you smile, laugh, and feel loved.โ€
Roy T. Bennett

โ€œAdversity is like a strong wind. It tears away from us all but the things that cannot be torn, so that we see ourselves as we really are.โ€
Arthur Golden

โ€œYou must welcome change as the rule, but not as your ruler.โ€
Denis Waitley

โ€œTrue life is lived when tiny changes occur.โ€
Leo Tolstoy

โ€œWhen in doubt, choose change.โ€
Lily Leung

โ€œIncredible 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.โ€
Steve Maraboli

โ€œYou may have to fight a battle more than once to win it.โ€
Margaret Thatcher

โ€œDon’t wait until everything is just right. It will never be perfect. There will always be challenges, obstacles and less than perfect conditions. So what. Get started now. With each step you take, you will grow stronger and stronger, more and more skilled, more and more self-confident and more and more successful.โ€
Mark Victor Hansen

โ€œBy changing nothing, nothing changes.โ€
Tony Robbins

โ€œChange the way you look at things and the things you look at change.โ€
Wayne W. Dyer

โ€œA wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.โ€
Spanish Proverb

โ€œIn times of great stress or adversity, itโ€™s always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.โ€
Lee Iacocca

โ€œConsider how hard it is to change yourself and youโ€™ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.โ€
Jacob M. Braude

โ€œTo exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.โ€
Henri Bergson

โ€œLife isnโ€™t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.โ€
George Bernard Shaw

โ€œThe greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.โ€
Oprah Winfrey

โ€œThe people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.โ€
Steve Jobs

โ€œAll the adversity Iโ€™ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened meโ€ฆ You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.โ€
Walt Disney

โ€œObstacles donโ€™t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, donโ€™t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.โ€
Michael Jordan

โ€œAny change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by discomforts.โ€
Arnold Bennett

โ€œNot everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.โ€
James Baldwin

โ€œTwenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.โ€
Mark Twain

โ€œYesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.โ€
Rumi

โ€œIf you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.โ€
Martin Luther

โ€œThose who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.โ€
George Bernard Shaw

โ€œGod 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.โ€
Reinhold Niebuhr

โ€œWhen we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny.โ€
Paulo Coelho

โ€Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.โ€
Leo Tolstoy

โ€œOne child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world.โ€
Malala Yousafzai

โ€œThough I might travel afar, I will meet only what I carry with me, for every man is a mirror. We see only ourselves reflected in those around us.
Their attitudes and actions are only a reflection of our own.
The whole world and its condition has its counter parts within us all.
Turn the gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.โ€
Kristen Zambucka

โ€œItโ€™s never too late to be who you might have been.โ€
George Eliot

Quotes about Change and Growth

โ€œIn any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.โ€
Abraham Maslow

โ€œWhen we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.โ€
Victor Frankl

โ€œSome people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.โ€
Ann Landers

โ€œGrowth and comfort do not coexist.โ€
Ginni Rometty

โ€œAnyone who isnโ€™t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isnโ€™t learning enough.โ€
Alain de Botton

โ€œYour assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light wonโ€™t come in.โ€
Isaac Asimov

โ€œThe first step toward success is taken when you refuse to be a captive of the environment in which you first find yourself.โ€
Mark Caine

โ€œIf we donโ€™t change, we donโ€™t grow. If we donโ€™t grow, we arenโ€™t really living.โ€
Gail Sheehy

โ€œChange, like healing, takes time.โ€
Veronica Roth

โ€œPeople do not change, they are merely revealed.โ€
Anne Enright

โ€œIf I am an advocate for anything, it is to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river.โ€
Anthony Bourdain

โ€œWhen people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.โ€
Andy Warhol

โ€œI wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.โ€
Aldous Huxley

โ€œChange the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.โ€
Denis Waitley

โ€œYou will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.โ€
C. JoyBell C.

โ€œEducation is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.โ€
Nelson Mandela

โ€œI have accepted fear as part of life โ€” specifically the fear of changeโ€ฆ I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.โ€
Erica Jong

โ€œWe are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers โ€“ but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change.โ€
Katharine Hepburn

โ€œChange is inevitable. Growth is optional.โ€
John Maxwell

โ€œFollow effective actions with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.โ€
Peter Drucker

โ€œWhen you come out of the storm, you wonโ€™t be the same person who walked in. Thatโ€™s what this stormโ€™s all about.โ€
Haruki Murakami

โ€œAnger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of othersโ€“ it only changes yours.โ€
Shannon Alder

โ€œWhen the Japanese mend broken objects, they aggrandize the damage by filling the cracks with gold. They believe that when something’s suffered damage and has a history it becomes more beautiful.โ€
Barbara Bloom

โ€œSome changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.โ€
Eckhart Tolle

โ€œProcrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the โ€˜someday Iโ€™llโ€™ philosophy.โ€
Denis Waitley

โ€œNo 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.โ€
Madonna

โ€œLife will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.โ€
Billy Cox

โ€œWhenever youโ€™re in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude.โ€
William James

โ€œThe only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.โ€
Alan Watts

โ€œChange is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you donโ€™t belong.โ€
Mandy Hale

โ€œKeep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.โ€
Mark Twain

โ€œSome of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.โ€
Hermann Hesse

โ€œThe best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.โ€
Albert Ellis

โ€œWhen things go wrong as they sometimes will,
When the road youโ€™re trudging seems all uphill,
When the funds are low and the debts are high,
And you want to smile but you have to sigh,
When care is pressing you down a bit
Rest if you must, but donโ€™t you quit.
Success is failure turned inside out,
The silver tint on the clouds of doubt,
And you can never tell how close you are,
It may be near when it seems afar.
So, stick to the fight when youโ€™re hardest hit
Itโ€™s when things go wrong that you mustnโ€™t quit.โ€
Edgar A. Guest

โ€œGood things take time.โ€
John Wooden

โ€œThe only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.โ€
Ralph Waldo Emerson

โ€œIf you donโ€™t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?โ€
W. Sommerset Maugham

โ€œA year from now you may wish you had started today.โ€
Karen Lamb

Motivating Quotes about Change in Business

โ€œThe successful man is the one who finds out what is the matter with his business before his competitors do.โ€
Roy L. Smith

โ€œThe pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.โ€
William Arthur Ward

โ€œIf you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better.โ€
Philip Vang

โ€œResistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.โ€
Ali Vincent

โ€œThings work out best for those who make the best of how things work out.โ€
John Wooden

โ€œThey always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.โ€
Andy Warhol

โ€œOnly the wisest and stupidest of men never change.โ€
Confucius

โ€œFailure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.โ€
Roy T. Bennett

โ€œOpen your arms to change, but donโ€™t let go of your values.โ€
Dalai Lama

โ€œChange is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.โ€
John F. Kennedy

โ€œNever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.โ€
Margaret Mead

โ€œDripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.โ€
Ovid

โ€œAll men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong, and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.โ€
Sophocles

โ€œIf opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.โ€
Milton Berle

โ€œYou cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.โ€
Jim Rohn

โ€œMaturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.โ€
Roy T. Bennett

โ€œFailure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.โ€
John Wooden

โ€œIt is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.โ€
Charles Darwin

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