116 Quotes about Change That Will Motivate You to Your Next Move

It doesn't matter how strong your opinions are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem. ― Coretta Scott King

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. ― Albert Einstein

When you're finished changing, you're finished. ― Benjamin Franklin

Change, like healing, takes time. ― Veronica Roth

They must change often, who would be constant in happiness. ― Confucius

Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced. ― James Baldwin

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

If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change. ― Wayne Dyer

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

If I’d asked my customers what they wanted, they’d have said ‘Don't change anything.’ ― Henry Ford

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

In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first. ― Jimi Hendrix

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

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has. ― Margaret Mead

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

Change is inevitable. Change is constant. ― Benjamin Disraeli

If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading. ― Lao Tzu

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. ― Winston Churchill

If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? ― Hillel

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. ― Bill Clinton

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. ― Maya Angelou

All great changes are preceded by choas. ― Deepak Chopra

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

You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ― Mahatma Gandhi

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. ― Stephen Chbosky

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. ― Jim Rohn

If you don't like change, you will like irrelevance even less. ― General Eric Shinseki

Things don’t have to change the world to be important. ― Steve Jobs

If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. ― Gail Sheehy

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

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

Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights. ― Pauline R. Kezer

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

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

Small changes eventually add up to huge results.

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. ― Barack Obama

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.

Change is inevitable. Growth is optional. ― John C. Maxwell

We cannot become what we want by remaining what we are. ― Max Depree

Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at. ― Jason Lemkin

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

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

I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ― Jimmy Dean

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

When in doubt, choose change. ― Lily Leung

Your desire to change must be greater than your desire to stay the same.

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 never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. ― Buckminster Fuller

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

Don’t make a change too complicated, just begin.

Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant. ― Anthony D’Angelo

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. ― George Bernard Shaw

Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone. ― Billy Cox

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman. ― Maya Angelou

Don’t expect to see a change if you don’t make one.

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

If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.

It’s okay to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave. ― Mandy Hale

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

The changes we dread most may contain our salvation. ― Barbara Kingsolver

The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind. ― Friedrich Nietzsche

You can’t change what’s going on around you until you start changing what’s going on within you.

Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ― Leo Tolstoy

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. ― Frederick Douglass

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly. ― Henri Bergson

We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn't always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny. ― Zoraida Córdova

Change means that what was before wasn't perfect. People want things to be better. ― Esther Dyson

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

Don’t let rejection create self-doubt. The founder of Starbucks was turned down by 217 of the 242 investors he initially spoke with. ― Elizabeth Galbut

Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster. ― Elon Musk

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

Resistance at all cost is the most senseless act there is. ― Friedrich Durrenmatt

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.

The moment of change is the only poem. ― Adrienne Rich

Time may change me, but I can’t trace time. ― David Bowie

Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history. ― Joan Wallach Scott

There is nothing permanent except change. ― Heraclitus

To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions. ― William James

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

Of course there is no formula for success except, perhaps, an unconditional acceptance of life and what it brings. ― Arthur Rubinstein

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change. ― George Bernard Shaw

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

I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better. ― Plutarch

One child, one teacher, one book, and one pen can change the world. ― Malala Yousafzai

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. ― Mary Shelley

When it feels scary to jump, that’s exactly WHEN you jump. Otherwise you end up staying in the same place your whole life. And that I can’t do. ― Oscar Isaacs

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. ― Carol Burnett

Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t. ― Steve Maraboli

There is certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position, and be bruised in a new place. ― Washington Irving

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. ― Harold Wilson

Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. ― John D. Rockefeller

Change before you have to. ― Jack Welch

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

People can cry much easier than they can change. ― James Baldwin

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. ― Walter Mosley

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable. ― Helen Keller

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. ― Fyodor Dostoyevsky

The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward. ― Steve Maraboli

Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. ― John Kenneth Galbraith

Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. ― Nikos Kazantzakis

You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it. ― Neil GaimanYou’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it. ― Neil Gaiman

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed. ― Kate Douglas Wiggin

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

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time. ― Libba Bray

Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. ― Hermann Hesse

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

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

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. ― Leo Tolstoy

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

Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone. ― J. D. Salinger

Change begins at the end of your comfort zone. ― Roy T. Bennett

The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance. ― Nathaniel Branden

Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. ― Roy T. Bennett

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. ― Simone de Beauvoir

Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. ― Stephen King

You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler. ― Denis Waitley

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