Transform Your Life: 50 Inspirational Quotes on Transformation

"The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

- Mark Twain

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

- William Butler Yeats

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do."

- Mark Twain

"Dream big and dare to fail."

- Norman Vaughan

"It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop."

- Confucius

"Keep your face always toward the sunshine—and shadows will fall behind you."

- Walt Whitman

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing."

- Walt Disney

"Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today."

- Will Rogers

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

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined."

- Henry David Thoreau

"Opportunities don’t happen; you create them."

- Chris Grosser

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

- Wayne Gretzky

"The best revenge is massive success."

- Frank Sinatra

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

- Arthur C. Clarke

"In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity."

- Albert Einstein

"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."

- Albert Einstein

"The best way to predict the future is to create it."

- Peter Drucker

"It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change."

- Charles Darwin

"Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today."

- Michael Hyatt

"Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution."

- Bill Drayton

"Change before you have to."

- Jack Welch

"Culture does not change because we desire to change it. Culture changes when the organization is transformed – the culture reflects the realities of people working together every day."

- Frances Hesselbein

"Great companies foster a productive tension between continuity and change."

- Jim Collins

"Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength."

- Sigmund Freud

"Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers and business."

- Mark Sanborn

"Slowness to change usually means fear of the new."

- Philip Crosby

"The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving."

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

- Charles Kettering

"People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency."

- Malcolm Gladwell

"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence—it is to act with yesterday’s logic."

- Peter Drucker

"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.

"A corporation is a living organism; it has to continue to shed its skin. Methods have to change. Focus has to change. Values have to change. The sum total of those changes is transformation."

- Andrew Grove

"It's not about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating they have to be about change."

- Miles Davis

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

- Lao Tzu

"To improve is to change, to be perfect is to have changed often."

- Winston Churchill

"Change is inevitable, but transformation is by conscious choice."

- Heather Ash Amara

"Don’t watch the clock; do what it does. Keep going."

- Sam Levenson

"Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation."

- Bernie S. Siegel

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

- Nia Peeples

"We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated."

- Maya Angelou

"You and I possess within ourselves at every moment of our lives, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives."

- Werner Erhard

"We need to realize that our path to transformation is through our mistakes. We’re meant to make mistakes, recognize them, and move on to become unlimited."

- Yehuda Berg

"Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair."

- Rick Warren

"Yes, your transformation will be hard. Yes, you will feel frightened, messed up and knocked down. Yes, you’ll want to stop. Yes, it’s the best work you’ll ever do."

- Robin Sharma

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

- Maya Angelou

"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 is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up."

- James Belasco and Ralph Stayer

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

- Michael Jordan

"Transformation literally means going beyond your form."

- Wayne Dyer

"Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom."

- John Mark Green

"Each tiny effort builds on the next, so that brick by brick, magnificent things can be created."

- Robin Sharma

"My transformation represents more than what is just skin deep; it represents my motivation, drive, and willingness to constantly improve."

- Jinder Mahal

"Nothing gets transformed in your life until your mind is transformed."

- Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

"Transformation is an ongoing process that tends to appear ordinary, when, in fact, something extraordinary is taking place."

- Suzy Ross

"Transformation does not start with someone else changing you; transformation is an inner self reworking of what you are now to what you will be."

- Byron Pulsifer

"To transform yourself, you don’t need to do big things. Just do small things in big way. Transformation will follow you."

- Rahul Sinha

"As the caterpillar undergoes transformation within the cocoon before emerging as a butterfly; likewise, life experiences shape character."

- Lorna Jackie

"Every day the clock resets. Your wins don’t matter. Your failures don’t matter. Don’t stress on what was, fight for what could be."

- Sean Higgins

"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

"I cant change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination."

- Jimmy Dean

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

- Socrates

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

- Nikos Kazantzakis

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

- Anne Frank

"You’ve done it before and you can do it now. See the positive possibilities. Redirect the substantial energy of your frustration and turn it into positive, effective, unstoppable determination."

- Ralph Marston

"Just take any step, whether small or large. And then another and repeat day after day. It may take months, maybe years, but the path to success will become clear."

- Aaron Ross

"You can’t teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them."

- Galileo Galilei

"How soon will you realise that the only thing you don’t have is the direct experience that there’s nothing you need that you don’t have?"

- Ken Keyes, JR

"Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security."

- John Allen Paulos

"If the only thing people learned was not to be afraid of their experience, that alone would change the world."

- Sydney Banks

"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."

- Maya Angelou

"Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakes."

- Carl Jung

"Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are."

- Chinese Proverb

"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."

- Rumi

"A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

- Maya Angelou

"Once we accept our limits, we go beyond them."

- Albert Einstein

"You can have anything you want if you are willing to give up the belief that you can’t have it."

- Dr. Robert Anthony

"The only journey is the one within."

- Rainer Maria Rilke

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

- Jim Rohn

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

- George Eliot

"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"We know what we are, but know not what we may be."

- Shakespeare

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world."

- Mahatma Gandhi

"To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- C.S. Lewis

"Do one thing every day that scares you."

- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart."

- Roy T. Bennett

"The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream."

- C.S. Lewis

"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom."

- Aristotle

"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow is our doubts of today."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

- Anthony Robbins

"Challenges are what make life interesting, and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."

- Joshua J. Marine

"Believe you can, and you’re halfway there."

- Theodore Roosevelt

"The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall."

- Oliver Goldsmith

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."

- Winston Churchill

"It always seems impossible until it’s done."

- Nelson Mandela

"The only real mistake is the one from which we learn nothing."

- Henry Ford

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

- Les Brown

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

- Rick Warren

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- George Eliot

"“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

"“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

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

- Vera Wang

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

- E.E. Cummings

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

- Dolly Parton

"The only constant in life is change."

- Heraclitus

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

- Henry Ford

"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."

"“But I wasn’t getting married. There ought, I thought, to be a ritual for being born twice – patched, retreaded, and approved for the road.”"

"“He had proven something to himself; it wasn’t as strong as it had once been. It was changing, unraveling like the yarn of a dark heavy blanket wrapped around a corpse.”"

"“The transformation of the grounds during the long soggy night that had preceded Cleveland’s arrival.”"

"“The children also put on mail shirts and helmets; a sword and shield were found for Edmund and a bow for Lucy—Peter and Susan were of course already carrying their gifts.”"

"“Transformation doesn’t ask that you stop being you. It demands that you find a way back to the authenticity and strength that’s already inside of you. You only have to bloom.”"

"“Inspiration and information without personal application will never amount to transformation.”"

"“Life is alchemy, and emotions are the fire that turns me to gold.”"

"“Nothing had changed. Everything had changed.”"

"“To love is to be transformed into what we love. To love God is therefore to be transformed into God.”"

"“Every moment the patches of green grew bigger and the patches of snow grew smaller.”"

"“The cruel world slipped away from me, and with it went all the other bad things in my life;”"

"“The transformation of matter into energy in the cell is an ever-flowing process, one of nature’s cycles of renewal, like a wheel endlessly turning . . . one of the wonders of the living world”"

"“But I will rise there with so full a glory That I will dazzle all the eyes of France, Yea, strike the Dauphin blind to look on us.”"

"“But there’s a better way. You show her she is beautiful. You make mirrors of your eyes, prayers of your hands against her body.”"

"“The only cure I know is a good ceremony, that’s what she said.”"

"“He had turned into a dragon while he was asleep.”"

"“The dry skin was still stuck to his body. But the effects of the witchery of the evil thing began to leave his body.”"

"“You’ve been doing something all along. All this time, and now you are at an important place in this story.”"

"“For now, just think of death as a transformation—a bit more radical than puberty, but nothing to get particularly upset about.”"

"“In fact, flying silently around my lamplit cabin at 3 o’clock in the morning as I’m reading (of all things) (shudder) Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde -- Small wonder maybe that I myself turned from serene Jekyll to hysterical Hyde in the short space of six weeks, losing absolute control of the peace mechanisms of my mind for the first time in my life.”"

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

"“The moment of truth had arrived. When she set foot on the island, either she would transform into a cloud of dandelion fluff and drift away, or she wouldn’t.”"

"“The more students work at storing the deposits entrusted to them, the less they develop the critical consciousness which would result from their intervention in the world as transformers of that world.”"

"“The point is, Simon drank one of those blue drinks-I told him not to, but he didn’t listen-and he turned into a rat.”"

"“In America the dream is to make it out of the ghetto. In Soweto, because there was no leaving the ghetto, the dream was to transform the ghetto.”"

"It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you implement that effort into your life. Every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs. Keep going. Remember why you started."

- Anonymous