Transform Your Life: 30 Inspirational Quotes for Change

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

- Oprah Winfrey

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

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

- Maya Angelou

"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

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

- Malcolm X

"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

"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

"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

"Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay."

- Simone de Beauvoir

"You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

- Cesar Chavez

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

- Albert Einstein

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

- George Eliot

"If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one."

- Dolly Parton

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

- Ernest Hemingway

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

- Mandy Hale

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

- James Baldwin

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

- Frederick Douglass

"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

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

- George Bernard Shaw

"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

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

- Philip Pullman

"Change brings opportunity."

- Nido Qubein

"Change is inevitable. Growth is optional."

- John C. Maxwell

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

- Diane von Furstenberg

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

- Marilyn Monroe

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

- Alan Watts

"Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it."

- Ferris Bueller

"To design is much more than simply to assemble, to order, or even to edit: it is to add value and meaning, to illuminate, to simplify, to clarify, to modify, to dignify, to dramatize, to persuade, and perhaps even to amuse. To design is to transform prose into poetry."

"You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy."