Transform Your Life: A Collection of Inspirational Quotes

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

- Steve Jobs

"There is nothing permanent except change."

- Heraclitus

"When in doubt, choose change."

- Lily Leung

"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

"All great changes are preceded by chaos."

- Deepak Chopra

"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

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

- Maya Angelou

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

- Lao Tzu

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

- Claudia Flores

"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.

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

- Charles Darwin

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Mother Teresa

"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

"True life is lived when tiny changes occur."

- Leo Tolstoy

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"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

"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

"God’s gift to us is more talent and ability than we’ll ever hope to use in our lifetime. Our gift to God is to develop as much of that talent and ability as we can in this lifetime."

- Steve Bow

"Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently."

- Henry Ford

"Hardships often prepare ordinary people for an extraordinary destiny."

- C.S. Lewis

""Throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.""

- Mark Twain

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Les Brown

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

- George Eliot

""It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.""

- William Bridges

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Socrates

""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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

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

- Dalai Lama

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

- Helen Keller

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

- Neale Donald Walsch

"There is no passion to be found playing small—in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living."

- Nelson Mandela

"If you live long enough, you’ll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you’ll be a better person."

- Bill Clinton

"The great courageous act that we must all do is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams."

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- A.A. Milne

"The new dawn blooms as we free it. For there is always light if only we’re brave enough to see it, if only we’re brave enough to be it."

- Amanda Gorman

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

- Thomas Jefferson

"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- John Barrow

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"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

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

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

- Robert F. Kennedy

"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

"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

- 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

"Getting ahead in a difficult profession requires avid faith in yourself. That is why some people with mediocre talent, but with great inner drive, go much further than people with vastly superior talent."

- Sophia Loren

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

- Shonda Rhimes

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

- Kakuzo Okakura

""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

"It is amazing how much can be accomplished if no one cares who gets the credit."

- John Wooden

""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 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

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

- Andy Warhol

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

- Dolly Parton

""Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.""

- Dan Miller

""Transitions in life can offer opportunities for discovery.""

- Robbie Shell

""Sometimes, God brings times of transition to create transformation.""

- Lynn Cowell

""Light precedes every transition. Whether at the end of a tunnel, through a crack in the door or the flash of an idea, it is always there, heralding a new beginning.""

- Theresa Tsalaky

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

- Henri Bergson

""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 is not a threat, it’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal, transformative success is.""

- Seth Godin

""If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.""

- Tony Robbins

""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

"There’s no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love. There is only a scarcity of resolve to make it happen."

- Wayne Dyer

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

- Denis Waitley

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

- Rick Warren

"Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself."

- George Bernard Shaw

"We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from life."

- William Osler

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

- Lewis Carroll

"One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth doing is what we do for others."

- Lewis Carroll

"Every exit is an entry somewhere else."

- Tom Stoppard

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

- Pierre Corneille

"Whatever we are, whatever we make of ourselves, is all we will ever have—and that, in its profound simplicity, is the meaning of life."

- Philip Appleman

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

- Bob Goff

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Living might mean taking chances, but they’re worth taking."

- Lee Ann Womack

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."

- Mae West

"Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will."

- Karim Seddiki

"Be where you are; otherwise you will miss your life."

- Buddha

"The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them."

- Paulo Coelho

"If you don’t manage your life, your life will manage you."

- St. C

""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

"I only hope that we don’t lose sight of one thing – that it was all started by a mouse."

- Walt Disney

"Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

- Maya Angelou

"If you can’t do great things, do small things in a great way."

- Napoleon Hill

"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."

"The happiest people don’t have the best of everything; they just make the best of everything."

"Commitment means staying loyal to what you said you were going to do long after the mood you said it in has left you."

"Sometimes, it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine."

""When shifts and transitions in life shake you to the core, see that as a sign of greatness that’s about to occur.""

"Your life is your message for the world."

"The way you treat people is your shield; the way we react to it is ours."

""Your life is a story of transition. You are always leaving one chapter behind while moving on to the next.""

"When Wealth is Lost, Nothing is Lost; When Health is Lost, Something is Lost; When Character is Lost, Everything is Lost."

"People may not remember exactly what you did, or what you said; BUT, they will always remember how you made them feel."

"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."

"If you don’t try, you’ll never know what you’re capable of."

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

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

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