100+ Inspirational Quotes on Change and Growth to Motivate Your Journey

"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

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

- Socrates

"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

"The only constant in life is change."

- Heraclitus

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

- Winston Churchill

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"We must become the change we wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Socrates

"The only thing that is constant is change."

- Heraclitus

"You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone."

- Roy T. Bennett

"Nothing is permanent except change."

- Heraclitus

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- Steve Jobs

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

- Carol Burnett

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Abraham Maslow

"It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform."

- Roy T. Bennett

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."

- Andy Warhol

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

"Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced."

- James Baldwin

"A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there."

- John Assaraf

"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.

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

- Gail Sheehy

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

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- Leo Tolstoy

"If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done."

- Thomas Jefferson

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

- Rumi

"Nothing endures but change."

- Heraclitus

"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

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

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

- Maya Angelou

"By changing nothing, nothing changes."

- Tony Robbins

"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

"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

"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us."

- Joseph Campbell

"We should strive to welcome change and challenges, because they are what help us grow. Without them we grow weak like the Eloi in comfort and security. We need to constantly be challenging ourselves in order to strengthen our character and increase our intelligence."

- H.G. Wells

"Change is the end result of all true learning."

- Leo Buscaglia

"I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself."

- Aldous Huxley

"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself."

- C. JoyBell C.

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"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

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Mother Teresa

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

- Wayne W. Dyer

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

- Walt Disney

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

- Rumi

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

- Nelson Mandela

"You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."

- Maya Angelou

"Change is inevitable; change is constant."

- Benjamin Disraeli

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

- Angela Y. Davis

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

- Kate Winslet

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Malala Yousafzai

"Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment."

- Buddhist quote

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

- Jacque Fresco

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

- Robin Sharma

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

- Alan Watts

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

- Frederick Douglass

"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

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

- Margaret Mead

"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

"If you want to fly, give up everything that weighs you down."

- Buddha

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

- Arnold Bennett

"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

"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

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

- Nikos Kazantzakis

"The biggest risk is not taking any risk. In a world that is changing quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks."

- Mark Zuckerberg

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

- Jane Goodall

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

- Nelson Mandela

"Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change."

- Brene Brown

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

- Katharine Hepburn

"Nothing ever happens unless something is moved."

- Albert Einstein

"When you're finished changing, you're finished."

- Benjamin Franklin

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."

- Confucius

"All is flux; nothing stays still."

- Heraclitus

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."

- T.S. Eliot

"You cannot swim for new horizons until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore."

- William Faulkner

"In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take."

- Lewis Carroll

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."

- A.A. Milne

"Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."

- Robert F. Kennedy

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

- Rob Siltanen

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"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

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

- Thomas Fuller

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

- Kakuzo Okakura

"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody."

- Stephen Chbosky

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

- Lao Tzu

"Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful."

- Buddha

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

- Lao Tzu

"The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"If you never try, you’ll never know what you’re capable of."

- John Barrow

"What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Neale Donald Walsch

"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

"How can we expect people to change if we don't give them the chance to?"

- Marissa Meyer

"You cannot change what you are, only what you do."

- Philip Pullman

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

- Maya Angelou

"Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window."

- Nicholas Sparks

"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

"Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change."

- Shannon L. Alder

"If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write."

- Martin Luther

"The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday."

- Steve Maraboli

"Don't waste your energy trying to change opinions ... Do your thing, and don't care if they like it."

- Tina Fey

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

- Stephen R. Covey

"One day spent with someone you love can change everything."

- Mitch Albom

"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

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

- Chinese Proverb

"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

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

- Deborah Day

"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."

- Mark Twain

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

- Les Brown

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

- e.e. cummings

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

- George Eliot

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"Words are where most change begins."

- Brandon Sanderson

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

- Leo Tolstoy

"And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time."

- Libba Bray

"Change, like healing, takes time."

- Veronica Roth

"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough."

- Alain de Botton

"We cannot change our past... we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude."

- Charles R. Swindoll

"Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody."

- Stephen Chbosky

"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

"You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

- Buckminster Fuller

"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

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

- Vera Wang

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

- Rick Warren

"Changing is what people do when they have no options left."

- Holly Black

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

- Dolly Parton

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Helen Keller

"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

"Embrace the uncertainty. Some of the most beautiful chapters in our lives won’t have a title until much later."

- Bob Goff

"To win without risk is to triumph without glory."

- Pierre Corneille

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

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

- Sundar Pichai

"Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Confucius

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

- Albert Einstein

"You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take."

- Wayne Gretzky

"The greatest risk is the risk of riskless living."

- Stephen Covey

"You must be the master of your own destiny or be tossed like a ship on the waves of fate."

- Chinese Proverb

"A change is as good as a rest."

- Old English Proverb

"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."

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

"A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it."

"Take risks, they’re the only way to learn."

"Step out of the comfort zone and into the growth zone."

"Don’t be afraid to try something new. It might be the best thing you ever do."

"Don’t be afraid to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the magic happens."

"The only way to learn is to keep trying new things and making mistakes."