203 Inspirational Change Quotes to Transform Your Mindset

"We can't become what we need to be by remaining what we are."

- Oprah Winfrey

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance."

- Alan Watts

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."

- Maya Angelou

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

- Socrates

"By changing nothing, nothing changes."

- Tony Robbins

"Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don't belong."

- N. R. Narayana Murthy

"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."

- Jim Rohn

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

- Rumi

"I am no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I am changing the things I cannot accept."

- Angela Davis

"Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you have power over instead of craving control over what you don't."

- Steve Maraboli

"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

"Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change."

- Wayne W. Dyer

"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

"To change one's life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions."

- William James

"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

"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

"I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

- Georg C. Lichtenberg

"We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea."

- C. JoyBell C.

"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

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change."

- Wayne Dyer

"When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves."

- Viktor E. Frankl

"Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster."

- Elon Musk

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."

- Maria Robinson

"You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Change is hard at first, messy in the middle and gorgeous at the end."

- Robin Sharma

"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

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

- Abraham Maslow

"Permit yourself to change your mind when something is no longer working for you."

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending."

- Carl Bard

"Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together."

- Marilyn Monroe

"People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Rob Siltanen

"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

"We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it."

- Rick Warren

"Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want."

- Kristin Armstrong

"Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene."

- Arthur Christopher Benson

"Change before you have to."

- Jack Welch

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress."

- Charles Kettering

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another."

- Anatole France

"Since we can not change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality."

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"To change what you get, you must change who you are."

- Vernon Howard

"If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"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

"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken."

- Frank Herbert

"Things do not change; we change."

- Henry David Thoreau

"I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life – I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen."

- Daniel Radcliffe

"The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do."

- Steve Jobs

"It doesn't matter how strong your opinion are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem."

- Coretta Scott King

"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

"When in doubt, choose change."

- Lily Leung

"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

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

"There is nothing permanent except change."

- Heraclitus

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."

- Winston Churchill

"The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance."

- Nathaniel Branden

"You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of."

- Jim Rohn

"If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living."

- Gail Sheehy

"He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery."

- Harold Wilson

"Change is a great and horrible thing, and people love it or hate it at the same time. Without change, however, you just don't move."

- Marc Jacobs

"Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation."

- Nia Peeples

"Life begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Neale Donald Walsch

"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 … You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but 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 …"

- Steve Jobs

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."

- Henri Bergson

"Honor the space between no longer and not yet."

- Nancy Levin

"Nobody likes to change. There will always be resistance to change, and there always will be change. And the quicker you get to that, the easier it is. It's not such a difficult thing. If you entrench yourself and go, 'By God, I will not change, I will not have this.' Then, you're a dead man. We're great at adaptability. It's our strongest suit."

- Nick Nolte

"And the most successful people are those who accept, and adapt to constant change. This adaptability requires a degree of flexibility and humility most people can't manage."

- Paul Lutus

"There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."

- George Bernard Shaw

"Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change."

- Stephen Hawking

"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."

- Leo Tolstoy

"When 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."

- Paulo Coelho

"We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails."

- Dolly Parton

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another."

- Anatole France

"Recognizing that you are not where you want to be is a starting point to begin changing your life."

- Deborah Day

"Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands."

- Clint Eastwood

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."

- Victor Hugo

"Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go."

- Hermann Hesse

"Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are."

- Bryant H. McGill

"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

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."

- Bertolt Brecht

"In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety."

- Abraham Maslow

"We must be impatient for change. Let us remember that our voice is a precious gift and we must use it."

- Claudia Flores

"All great changes are preceded by chaos."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Lao Tzu

"I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples."

- Mother Teresa

"We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

- Carl Jung

"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

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"What's dangerous is not to evolve."

- Jeff Bezos

"Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new."

- Brian Tracy

"We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn't always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny."

- Zoraida Córdova

"If you're brave enough to say goodbye, life will reward you with a new hello."

- Paulo Coelho

"I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question."

- Harun Yahya

"The only impossible journey is the one you never begin."

- Anthony Robbins

"The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water moulds itself to the pitcher."

- Chinese Proverb

"Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent."

- Nolan Ryan

"When we allow ourselves to adapt to different situations, life is easier."

- Catherine Pulsifer

"Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative."

- H. G. Wells

"You must be shapeless, formless, like water. When you pour water in a cup, it becomes the cup. When you pour water in a bottle, it becomes the bottle. When you pour water in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Water can drip and it can crash. Become like water my friend."

- Bruce Lee

"Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed."

- Jean M. Auel

"Change almost never fails because it's too early. It almost always fails because it's too late."

- Seth Godin

"When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge."

- Tuli Kupferberg

"You can't just keep doing what works one time, everything around you is changing. To succeed, stay out in front of change."

- Sam Walton

"Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain."

- Vivian Greene

"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 eventually the confidence will follow."

- Carrie Fisher

"Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still."

- Chinese Proverb

"Change is made of choices, and choices are made of character."

- Amanda Gorman

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world."

- Nelson Mandela

"Twenty 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."

- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"You can waste your lives drawing lines. Or you can live your life crossing them."

- Shonda Rhimes

"If you don't make the time to work on creating the life you want, you're eventually going to be forced to spend a lot of time dealing with a life you don't want."

- Kevin Ngo

"It is never too late to be who you might have been."

- George Eliot

"You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind."

- Timothy Leary

"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."

- Francis Bacon

"Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have."

- Margaret Mead

"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."

- Robert Anthony

"If you can't fly, then run. If you can't run, then walk. If you can't walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward."

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

"How wonderful is it that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world."

- Anne Frank

"Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future."

- Walt Disney

"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

- Mary Shelley

"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

"There is nothing so stable as change."

- Bob Dylan

"If it scares you, it might be a good thing to try."

- Seth Godin

"The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning."

- Ivy Baker Priest

"Some beautiful paths can't be discovered without getting lost."

- Erol Ozan

"Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again."

- Bikram Choudhury

"The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one."

- Elbert Hubbard

"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

- Anais Nin

"Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears."

- Les Brown

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all."

- Helen Keller

"The future is always all around us, waiting, in moments of transitions, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain."

- J. Michael Straczynski

"We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis."

- LeeAnn Taylor

"Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"Action and adaptability create opportunity."

- Garrison Wynn

"Adaptability is the simple secret of survival."

- Jessica Hagedorn

"If you're not stubborn, you'll give up on experiments too soon. And if you're not flexible, you'll pound your head against the wall and you won't see a different solution to a problem you're trying to solve."

- Jeff Bezos

"Stay committed to your decisions, but stay flexible in your approach. It's the end you're after."

- Anthony Robbins

"You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The strongest will is the will that knows how to bend."

- Alice Duer Miller

"Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history."

- Joan Wallach Scott

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

- Frederick Douglass

"One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."

- Malala Yousafzai

"When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you… never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn."

- Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Accept responsibility for your life. Know that it is you who will get you where you want to go, no one else."

- Les Brown

"The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

- Dolly Parton

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."

- Ellen Glasgow

"Miracles happen every day. Change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"Ignorance is always afraid of change."

- Jawaharlal Nehru

"You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."

- Johnny Cash

"The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being."

- Lee Iacocca

"The thing about limitations is that they are only true as long as you believe in them. So, instead of believing in your limitations, start believing in yourself."

- Jay Shetty

"It's not about how slow you go, just as long as you don't stop."

- Jay Shetty

"The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"We first make our habits, then our habits make us."

- John Dryden

"Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings."

- Arthur Rubinstein

"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."

- Ernest Hemingway

"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."

- Jane Goodall

"Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today."

- Malcolm X

"I would like to think that all of my successes in life are really just the fruit of my failures."

- Yvie Oddly

"Failure is not the opposite of success; it is a stepping stone towards it."

- Sundar Pichai

"Success isn't about the end result, it's about what you learn along the way."

- Vera Wang

"You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness."

- Diane von Furstenberg

"Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experiences that reveals the human spirit."

- E.E. Cummings

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."

- Woodrow Wilson

"Change in all things is sweet."

- Aristotle

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

- Stephen Hawking

"It is not down in any map, true places never are."

- Herman Melville

"Wherever you go, go with all your heart!"

- Confucius

"As soon as anyone starts telling you to be "realistic," cross that person off your invitation list."

- John Eliot

"Some people want it to happen, some wish it would happen, others make it happen."

- Michael Jordan

"But in practice master plans fail –because they create totalitarian order, not organic order. They are too rigid; they cannot easily adapt to the natural and unpredictable changes that inevitably arise in the life of a community."

- Christopher Alexander

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Tradition is nothing but ancestral peer pressure."

- Indya Moore

"The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows."

- Sydney J. Harris

"The swiftest way to triple your success is to double your investment in personal development."

- Robin Sharma

"Always work hard and have fun in what you do because I think that's when you're more successful. You have to choose to do it."

- Simone Biles

"When someone tells me 'no,' it doesn't mean I can't do it, it simply means I can't do it with them."

- Karen E. Quinones Miller

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

"Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground."

- Judith Thurman

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

- Abraham Lincoln

"When we're growing up, there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be."

- Elliot Page

"Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value."

- Albert Einstein

"I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it."

- Thomas Jefferson

"Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced."

- Søren Kierkegaard

"A well-educated mind will always have more questions than answers."

- Helen Keller

"Education is not preparation for life; education is life itself."

- John Dewey

"Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't."

- Bill Nye

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago."

- Warren Buffett

"Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children."

- Walt Disney

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

"If you don't like where you are, move. You are not a tree."

"Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable and remove yourself from the unacceptable."

"You can't start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading your last one."

"She knew this transition was not about becoming someone better but about finally allowing herself to become who she'd always been."

"Transitioning is a radical act of self-love."

"You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them."

"When something goes wrong in your life, just yell 'Plot Twist' and move on."