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

Change and growth are essential parts of life that shape who we are and who we become. This curated collection of over 100 inspirational quotes from renowned thinkers, leaders, and visionaries offers profound insights and motivation to embrace transformation. Whether you're facing a challenging transition or seeking encouragement to pursue personal development, these quotes remind us that change is not only inevitable but also a powerful catalyst for growth. From Maya Angelou's wisdom on doing better when we know better, to Mahatma Gandhi's call to be the change we wish to see, each quote serves as a beacon of hope and strength. Dive into this rich compilation to find the words that resonate with your journey. Let these timeless reflections inspire you to step out of your comfort zone, overcome fear, and pursue the path of continuous learning and self-improvement. Remember, growth is a choice we make every day, and with the right mindset, change becomes an opportunity to create a better version of ourselves.

Wisdom from the Masters

"The only constant in life is change."

- Heraclitus

Overcoming Obstacles

"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

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

- Socrates

Change

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

- Winston Churchill

Change

"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

Change

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

Change

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

- Socrates

Change

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Change

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

- Jim Rohn

Change

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

- Steve Jobs

Ambition

"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

Change

"The only thing that is constant is change."

- Heraclitus

Change

"Nothing is permanent except change."

- Heraclitus

Change

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Change

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

- Abraham Maslow

Choice

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Change

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

- Carol Burnett

Change

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

- Amanda Gorman

Change

"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.

Motivation

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

Change

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

- Leo Tolstoy

Change

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

- Roy T. Bennett

Personal Growth

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

- Rumi

Personal Growth

"Nothing endures but change."

- Heraclitus

Change

"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

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

- Norman Vincent Peale

Mindfulness

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

- Maya Angelou

Change

"By changing nothing, nothing changes."

- Tony Robbins

Change

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

- Gail Sheehy

Change

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

- Thomas Jefferson

Taking Risks

"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

Personal Growth

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

- Oprah Winfrey

Personal Growth

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

Change

"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

Transformation

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

- Leo Buscaglia

Inspiration

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

- Albert Einstein

Change

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

- Andy Warhol

Change

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

- Aldous Huxley

Change

"Growth and comfort do not coexist."

- Ginni Rometty

Growth

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

- Charles Darwin

Change

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

- James Baldwin

Change

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

- Mother Teresa

Change

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

- John Assaraf

Taking Risks

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

- Wayne W. Dyer

Change

"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

Change

"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

Change

"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

Change

"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.

Growth

"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

"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

Change

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

- Walt Disney

Change

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

- Maya Angelou

Resilience

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

- Dalai Lama

Change

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

- Nelson Mandela

Education

"Change is inevitable; change is constant."

- Benjamin Disraeli

Change

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

- Rumi

Change

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

- Angela Y. Davis

Change

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

- Kate Winslet

Change

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

- Lao Tzu

Change

"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

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

- Robin Sharma

Change

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

- Malala Yousafzai

Education

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

- Jacque Fresco

Change

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

- Alan Watts

Resilience

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

- Buddhist quote

Mindfulness

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

- Buddha

Liberation

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

- Arnold Bennett

Change

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

- Margaret Mead

Change

"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

Change

"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

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

- Frederick Douglass

Adversity

"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

Change

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

- Nikos Kazantzakis

Change

"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

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

- Neale Donald Walsch

Courage

"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

Personal Growth

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

- Les Brown

Responsibility

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

- e.e. cummings

Self-confidence

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

- George Eliot

Transformation

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

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change

"Words are where most change begins."

- Brandon Sanderson

Change

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

- Leo Tolstoy

Change

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

- Libba Bray

Change

"Change, like healing, takes time."

- Veronica Roth

Change

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

- Alain de Botton

Personal Growth

"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

Change

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

- Stephen Chbosky

Change

"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

Change

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

- Marissa Meyer

Change

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

- Philip Pullman

Self-improvement

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

- Mitch Albom

Change

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

- Nicholas Sparks

Change

"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

Change

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

- Lisa Lutz

Change

"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

Self-esteem

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

- Martin Luther

Motivation

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

- Steve Maraboli

Healing

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

- Tina Fey

Self-confidence

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

- Stephen R. Covey

Change

"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

Change

"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

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

- Buckminster Fuller

Change

"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

Change

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

- Michael Ende

Change

"All things are difficult before they are easy."

- Thomas Fuller

Perseverance

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

- Kakuzo Okakura

Change

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

- Stephen Chbosky

Change

"New beginnings are often disguised as painful endings."

- Lao Tzu

New Beginnings

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

- Buddha

Change

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

- Lao Tzu

Transformation

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

Overcoming Obstacles

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

- John Barrow

Self-improvement

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Facing Fears

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Facing Fears

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

Adversity

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

- Ernest Hemingway

Personal Growth

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

- Nedra Glover Tawwab

Change

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

- Chinese Proverb

Personal Growth

"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

New Beginnings

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

- Marilyn Monroe

Change

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

- Deborah Day

Change

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

- Rob Siltanen

Change

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

- Jane Goodall

Compassion

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

- Nelson Mandela

Education

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

- Brene Brown

Creativity

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

- Katharine Hepburn

Change

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

- Benjamin Franklin

Change

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

- Confucius

Change

"All is flux; nothing stays still."

- Heraclitus

Change

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

- T.S. Eliot

Leadership

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

- William Faulkner

Courage

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

- Lewis Carroll

Reflection

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

Courage

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

Aspirations

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

- A.A. Milne

Belief in Self

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

Resilience

"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

Taking Risks

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

- Maya Angelou

Personal Growth

"Nothing ever happens unless something is moved."

- Albert Einstein

Change

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

- Sundar Pichai

Success

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

- Pierre Corneille

Taking Risks

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

Change

"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

Courage

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

- Albert Einstein

Success

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

- Bob Goff

Hope

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

- Wayne Gretzky

Taking Risks

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

- Rick Warren

Personal Growth

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

- Helen Keller

Courage

"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

Aspirations

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

- Holly Black

Change

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

- Dolly Parton

Optimism

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

Happiness

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

- Confucius

Resilience

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

- Vera Wang

Success

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

- Chinese Proverb

Responsibility

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

- Stephen Covey

Taking Risks

"A change is as good as a rest."

- Old English Proverb

Change

Bite-sized Inspirational Quotes

"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."

Leadership

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

Adaptation

"Every accomplishment starts with the decision to try."

Motivation

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

Taking Risks

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

Personal Growth

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

Learning

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

Taking Risks

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

Taking Risks