Change Quotes

"Sometimes the slightest things change the directions of our lives, the merest breath of a circumstance, a random moment that connects like a meteorite striking the earth. Lives have swiveled and changed direction on the strength of a chance remark."

- Bryce Courtenay

"Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn't quite as spectacular."

- Lisa Lutz

"How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change."

- Steve Maraboli

"To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions."

- Stephen R. Covey

"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

"I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back...."

- Erica Jong

"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

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."

- Barack Obama

"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

"Nothing is lost. . .Everything is transformed."

- Michael Ende

"Nothing endures but change."

- Heraclitus

"If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior."

- Katharine Hepburn

"By changing nothing, nothing changes."

- Tony Robbins

"If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading."

- Lao Tzu

"Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts."

- Arnold Bennett

"In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become experts at changing our minds."

- Jacque Fresco

"Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values."

- Dalai Lama

"The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings."

- Kakuzo Okakura

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world."

- Margaret Mead

"Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next."

- Gilda Radner

"Yesterday I was so clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself."

- Rumi

"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 is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle, and best at the end."

- Robin Sharma

"The good and bad things are what form us as people…change makes us grow."

- Kate Winslet

"Nothing ever happens unless something is moved."

- Albert Einstein

"After you’ve done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over."

- Alfred Edward Perlman

"Stay afraid, but do it anyway. What’s important is the action. You don’t have to wait to be confident. Just do it, and the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."

- C.S. Lewis

"Nothing is permanent except change."

- Heraclitus

"The only thing that is constant is change."

- Heraclitus