107 Inspirational Life Quotes About Change to Transform Your Perspective

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Socrates

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

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

- Maria Robinson

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

- N. R. Narayana Murthy

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

- Alan Watts

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

- Jim Rohn

"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

"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

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

- Angela Davis

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

- Maya Angelou

"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Abraham Maslow

"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.

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

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

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Henri Bergson

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"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

"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

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

- George Eliot

"By changing nothing, nothing changes."

- Tony Robbins

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me."

- Carol Burnett

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

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

- Dalai Lama

"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

"It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change."

- Charles Darwin

"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

"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

"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

"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

"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.

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

- Nancy Levin

"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

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

- Deborah Day

"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

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

- Rick Warren

"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 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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Winston Churchill

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Jacque Fresco

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

- Kakuzo Okakura

"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

"There is nothing permanent except change."

- Heraclitus

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

- Elon Musk

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

- Victor Hugo

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

- Charles Kettering

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

- Clint Eastwood

"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

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Sundar Pichai

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

- Shonda Rhimes

"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

"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

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

- Arnold Bennett

"When in doubt, choose change."

- Lily Leung

"All great changes are preceded by chaos."

- Deepak Chopra

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

- Claudia Flores

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

- Carl Jung

"There is nothing so stable as change."

- Bob Dylan

"Change is inevitable. Change is constant."

- Benjamin Disraeli

"Change before you have to."

- Jack Welch

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

- Robert Anthony

"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

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

- Malala Yousafzai

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

- Robin Sharma

"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

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

- Walt Disney

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Ellen Glasgow

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

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- E.E. Cummings

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

- Thomas Fuller

"Miracles happen everyday, change your perception of what a miracle is and you'll see them all around you."

- Jon Bon Jovi

"Change in all things is sweet."

- Aristotle

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

- Albert Einstein

"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

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

- Malcolm X

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

- Benjamin Franklin

"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

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

- Woodrow Wilson

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

- John Dewey

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

- Helen Keller