These change quotes will inspire you. Change replace (something) with something else, especially something of the same kind that is newer or better; substitute one thing for (another).
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging change quotes, change sayings, and change proverbs.
Famous Change Quotes
- “In the end, it is important to remember that we cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” ~ Max De Pree
- “We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.” ~ Albert Einstein
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“Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “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
- “To achieve goals you’ve never achieved before, you need to start doing things you’ve never done before.” ~ Stephen Covey
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“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic.” ~ Peter Drucker
- “If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.” ~ Jack Dixon
- “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.” ~ Denis Waitley
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“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “I can’t go back to yesterday – because I was a different person then.” ~ Lewis Carroll
- “One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching” ~ Gerard Way
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“A tiny change today brings a dramatically different tomorrow.” ~ Richard Bach
- “If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.” ~ Dalai Lama
- “When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” ~ Alexander Graham Bell
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“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
- “Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.” ~ Richard Branson
- “We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us.” ~ Joseph Campbell
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“When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ~ Haruki Murakami
- “You can’t stop the future You can’t rewind the past The only way to learn the secret …is to press play.” ~ Jay Asher
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” ~ Deepak Chopra
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“If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.” ~ Wayne Dyer
- “Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.” ~ James A. Baldwin
- “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.” ~ Victor Hugo
- “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.” ~ Margaret Mead
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“There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction.” ~ Winston Churchill
- “If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars.” ~ Rabindranath Tagore
- “The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” ~ Frederick Douglass
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“Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” ~ Denis Waitley
- “The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change.” ~ Carl Rogers , Self change quotes
- “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” ~ Libba Bray
- “Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.” ~ Carol Burnett , Change quotes in life
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“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” ~ Jim Rohn
- “We cannot become what we need by remaining what we are.” ~ John C. Maxwell
- “Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase.” ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
- “If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” ~ Barack Obama
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“Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.” ~ Nolan Ryan
- “There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it’s going to be a butterfly.” ~ R. Buckminster Fuller
- “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “We cannot change anything unless we accept it.” ~ Carl Jung
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“You don’t drown by falling in the water; you drown by staying there.” ~ Edwin Louis Cole
- “Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.” ~ C. S. Lewis
- “Change before you have to.” ~ Jack Welch
- “We do not succeed in changing things according to our desire, but gradually our desire changes.” ~ Marcel Proust
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“By changing nothing, nothing changes.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat.” ~ Prince Philip
- “For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again.” ~ Eric Roth
- “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” ~ Michael Jordan
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“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
- “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ~ Leo Tolstoy
- “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.” ~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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“Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” ~ Keri Russell
- “Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.” ~ Sydney J. Harris , Change quotes about love
- “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.” ~ John Wooden
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“Those who matter don’t mind, and those who mind don’t matter.” ~ Bernard Baruch
- “We change our behavior when the pain of staying the same becomes greater than the pain of changing. Consequences give us the pain that motivates us to change.” ~ Henry Cloud
- “The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.” ~ Jennifer Hudson
Change the act, process, or result of changing, alteration.
