60 Inspirational Quotes about Change in Life

Change can be intimidating, but it’s important to remember that with change comes growth. If you’re looking for words of encouragement and inspiration, these quotes about change in life will inspire you to break out of your shell and start a new chapter.

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Quotes About Change in Life

1. “The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” – Albert Einstein

2. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

3. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” – Wayne Dyer

4. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Anatole France

5. “Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale

6. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy

7. “You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” – Jim Rohn

8. “Be the change you want to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

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

10. “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” – Benjamin Disraeli

11. “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

12th of 60 Quotes about Change in Life

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

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13. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch

14. “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” – Jim Rohn

15. “Change, like healing, takes time.” – Veronica Roth

16. “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

17. “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.” – Roy T. Bennett

18. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale

19. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky

20. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi

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

22. “Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.” – Roy T. Bennett

23. “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” – Leo Tolstoy

24th of 60 Quotes about Change in Life

“Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett

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25. “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

26. “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

27. “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

28. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller

29. “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

30. “What’s dangerous is not to evolve.” – Jeff Bezos

31. “There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus

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

33. “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela

34. “When we are no longer able to change a situation – we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl

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

36th of 60 Quotes about Change in Life

“If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.” – Maya Angelou

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37. “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

38. “Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.” – John C. Maxwell

39. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.” – John D. Rockefeller

40. “Change in all things is sweet.” – Aristotle

41. “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” – James Baldwin

42. “If you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better.” – Philip Vang

43. “In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become expert at changing our minds.” – Jacque Fresco

44. “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman

45. “The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.” – Steve Jobs

46. “To change ourselves effectively, we first had to change our perceptions.” – Stephen R. Covey

47. “All is flux, nothing stays still.” – Plato

48th of 60 Quotes about Change in Life

“Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.” – Robin Sharma

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49. “Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self-destruct.” – Sam Stevens

50. “A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.” – Spanish proverb

51. “There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

52. “You will find that it is necessary to let things go; simply for the reason that they are heavy.” – C. JoyBell

53. “Growth and comfort do not coexist.” – Ginni Rometty

54. “If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.” – Roy T. Bennett

55. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist

56. “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” – Carol Burnett

57. “Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by discomforts.” – Arnold Bennett

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

59. “Things do not change; we change.” – Henry David Thoreau

60th of 60 Quotes about Change in Life

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” – Winston Churchill

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