Sometimes you feel stuck and disappointed. Then something has to change. Be brave to take these changes head-on if you wish to grow. Change is necessary for continuous progress. May these life changing quotes make you realize the importance of change in the things you want to achieve and for the betterment of yourself.
1. “You will never change your life until you change something you do daily.” – John C. Maxwell
2. “You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” – Brian Tracy
3. “When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.” – Charles Schwab
4. “The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation.” – Pearl S. Buck
5. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
6. “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Kahlil Gibran
7. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
8. “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” – C. S. Lewis
9. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
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10. “If you want something new, you have to stop doing something old.” – Peter F. Drucker
11. “Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” – Debby Boone
12. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this, and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer
13. “Continual experimentation is the new normal.” – Karissa Thacker
14. “Change is the essence of life.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
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15. “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” – Tony Robbins
16. “The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.” – Whitney Young
17. “Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.” – Nicholas Sparks
18. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
19. “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
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20. “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.” – Stephen King
21. “In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.” – Brian Tracy
22. “Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.” – Leonardo da Vinci
23. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” – Brené Brown
24. “Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” – William Pollard
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25. “What single ability do we all have? The ability to change.” – Leonard Andrews
26. “If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck with either who you are or where you are. You can grow; you can change. You can be more than you are.” – Zig Ziglar
27. “Nothing is as painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” – Mary Shelley
28. “The most damaging phrase in the language is: It's always been done that way.” – Admiral Grace Hopper
29. “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” – John Foster Dulles
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30. “Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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31. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
32. “If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.” – Maya Angelou
33. “We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” – Max Depree
34. “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” – Benjamin Disraeli
35. “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” – Emily Dickinson
36. “Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?” – Diane Duane
37. “There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus
38. “Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.” – Henry S. Commager
39. “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.” – William S. Burroughs
40. “Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have and should have.” – Louis Boone
41. “There's a better way to do it. Find it.” – Thomas Edison
42. “If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.” – Anthony Robbins
43. “He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” – Harold Wilson
44. “You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
45. “Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.” – Mike Ditka
46. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln
47. “It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.” – Bob Proctor
48. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.” – Edmund Burke
49. “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
50. “If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.” – Katharine Hepburn
51. “Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” – Arnold Bennett
52. “I used to say, I sure hope things will change. Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.” – Jim Rohn
53. “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” – Chinese proverb
54. “Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.” – Alexis Carrel
55. “If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.” – Gail Sheehy
56. “All appears to change when we change.” – Henri Frédéric Amiel
57. “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
58. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
59. “In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett
60. “The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.” – Newton D. Baker
61. “Discovery of a solution consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.” – Albert Szent Gyorgyi
62. “Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” – Thomas J. Watson
63. “To create more positive results in your life, replace If only with Next time.” – Anonymous
64. “Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.” – Bikram Choudhury
65. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
66. “People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
67. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
68. “To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.” – William James
69. “We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.” – Harrison Ford
70. “Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.” – Brian Tracy
71. “It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.” – Henry Ward Beecher
72. “Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.” – Leo Buscaglia
73. “The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.” – Vauvenargues
74. “An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch
75. “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden
76. “The people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.” – Gilbert Chesterton
77. “The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.” – Brooks Atkinson
78. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” – Wayne W. Dyer
79. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl
80. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller
81. “There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.” – John Paul Warren
82. “Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale
83. “The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.” – Ann Richards
84. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
85. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
86. “Times will change for the better when you change.” – Maxwell Maltz
87. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli
88. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
89. “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
90. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
91. “Fortune sides with him who dares.” – Virgil
92. “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” – Johann Wolfgang
93. “When in doubt, choose change.” – Lily Leung
94. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
95. “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
96. “You must welcome change as the rule, but not as your ruler.” – Denis Waitley
97. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” – Peter Marshall
98. “Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.” – Max McKeown
99. “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” – Kakuzo Okakura
100. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky
101. “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
102. “Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.” – Nicholas Sparks
103. “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
104. “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.” – Anatole France
105. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett
106. “The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.” – Bill Clinton
107. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
108. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” – Shannon L. Alder
109. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
110. “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
111. “If you don’t like change, you will like irrelevance even less.” – General Eric Shinseki
112. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” – Cassandra Clare
113. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan W. Watts
114. “Don’t confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you.” – Steve Maraboli
115. “Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.” – Esther Dyson
116. “Change, like healing, takes time.” – Veronica Roth
117. “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
118. “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” – Libba Bray
119. “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
120. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
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2. “You can only grow if you're willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” – Brian Tracy
3. “When a man has put a limit on what he will do, he has put a limit on what he can do.” – Charles Schwab
4. “The young do not know enough to be prudent and therefore they attempt the impossible and achieve it, generation after generation.” – Pearl S. Buck
5. “Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.” – Rumi
6. “Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.” – Kahlil Gibran
7. “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw
8. “It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad.” – C. S. Lewis
9. “We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it.” – Rick Warren
11. “Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.” – Debby Boone
12. “I always did something I was a little not ready to do. I think that's how you grow. When there's that moment of Wow, I'm not really sure I can do this, and you push through those moments, that's when you have a breakthrough.” – Marissa Mayer
13. “Continual experimentation is the new normal.” – Karissa Thacker
14. “Change is the essence of life.” – Reinhold Niebuhr
16. “The truth is that there is nothing noble in being superior to somebody else. The only real nobility is in being superior to your former self.” – Whitney Young
17. “Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window.” – Nicholas Sparks
18. “When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.” – Lao Tzu
19. “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
21. “In times of turbulence and rapid change, you must constantly be re-evaluating yourself relative to the new realities.” – Brian Tracy
22. “Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.” – Leonardo da Vinci
23. “Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.” – Brené Brown
24. “Learning and innovation go hand in hand. The arrogance of success is to think that what you did yesterday will be sufficient for tomorrow.” – William Pollard
26. “If you don't like who you are and where you are, don't worry about it because you're not stuck with either who you are or where you are. You can grow; you can change. You can be more than you are.” – Zig Ziglar
27. “Nothing is as painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” – Mary Shelley
28. “The most damaging phrase in the language is: It's always been done that way.” – Admiral Grace Hopper
29. “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it is the same problem you had last year.” – John Foster Dulles
More Change Quotes
31. “Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” – Albert Einstein
32. “If you don't like something change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude. Don't complain.” – Maya Angelou
33. “We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.” – Max Depree
34. “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.” – Benjamin Disraeli
35. “The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.” – Emily Dickinson
36. “Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works?” – Diane Duane
37. “There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus
38. “Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.” – Henry S. Commager
39. “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.” – William S. Burroughs
40. “Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have and should have.” – Louis Boone
41. “There's a better way to do it. Find it.” – Thomas Edison
42. “If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.” – Anthony Robbins
43. “He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.” – Harold Wilson
44. “You will either step forward into growth or you will step back into safety.” – Abraham Maslow
45. “Success is never permanent, and failure is never final.” – Mike Ditka
46. “My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.” – Abraham Lincoln
47. “It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.” – Bob Proctor
48. “Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.” – Edmund Burke
49. “We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.” – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
50. “If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.” – Katharine Hepburn
51. “Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.” – Arnold Bennett
52. “I used to say, I sure hope things will change. Then I learned that the only way things are going to change for me is when I change.” – Jim Rohn
53. “Learning is like rowing upstream: not to advance is to drop back.” – Chinese proverb
54. “Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.” – Alexis Carrel
55. “If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.” – Gail Sheehy
56. “All appears to change when we change.” – Henri Frédéric Amiel
57. “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
58. “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
59. “In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett
60. “The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after.” – Newton D. Baker
61. “Discovery of a solution consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.” – Albert Szent Gyorgyi
62. “Whenever an individual or a business decides that success has been attained, progress stops.” – Thomas J. Watson
63. “To create more positive results in your life, replace If only with Next time.” – Anonymous
64. “Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.” – Bikram Choudhury
65. “Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
66. “People should think things out fresh and not just accept conventional terms and the conventional way of doing things.” – R. Buckminster Fuller
67. “Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.” – Barack Obama
68. “To change one's life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.” – William James
69. “We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.” – Harrison Ford
70. “Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change.” – Brian Tracy
71. “It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage.” – Henry Ward Beecher
72. “Change. It has the power to uplift, to heal, to stimulate, surprise, open new doors, bring fresh experience and create excitement in life. Certainly it is worth the risk.” – Leo Buscaglia
73. “The most absurd and reckless aspirations have sometimes led to extraordinary success.” – Vauvenargues
74. “An organization's ability to learn, and translate that learning into action rapidly, is the ultimate competitive advantage.” – Jack Welch
75. “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.” – Nathaniel Branden
76. “The people who are most bigoted are the people who have no convictions at all.” – Gilbert Chesterton
77. “The most fatal illusion is the settled point of view. Since life is growth and motion, a fixed point of view kills anybody who has one.” – Brooks Atkinson
78. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” – Wayne W. Dyer
79. “When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” – Viktor E. Frankl
80. “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” – Buckminster Fuller
81. “There has never been a meaningful life built on easy street.” – John Paul Warren
82. “Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.” – Mandy Hale
83. “The here and now is all we have, and if we play it right it’s all we’ll need.” – Ann Richards
84. “Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn
85. “Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
86. “Times will change for the better when you change.” – Maxwell Maltz
87. “The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.” – Steve Maraboli
88. “There are no traffic jams along the extra mile.” – Roger Staubach
89. “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
90. “The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.” – William Arthur Ward
91. “Fortune sides with him who dares.” – Virgil
92. “Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.” – Johann Wolfgang
93. “When in doubt, choose change.” – Lily Leung
94. “You can’t wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.” – Jack London
95. “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
96. “You must welcome change as the rule, but not as your ruler.” – Denis Waitley
97. “Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.” – Peter Marshall
98. “Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.” – Max McKeown
99. “The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” – Kakuzo Okakura
100. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky
101. “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
102. “Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards.” – Nicholas Sparks
103. “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
104. “All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter into another.” – Anatole France
105. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett
106. “The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.” – Bill Clinton
107. “Change your thoughts and you change your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
108. “Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.” – Shannon L. Alder
109. “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
110. “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
111. “If you don’t like change, you will like irrelevance even less.” – General Eric Shinseki
112. “Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change.” – Cassandra Clare
113. “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.” – Alan W. Watts
114. “Don’t confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok; we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you.” – Steve Maraboli
115. “Change means that what was before wasn’t perfect. People want things to be better.” – Esther Dyson
116. “Change, like healing, takes time.” – Veronica Roth
117. “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
118. “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” – Libba Bray
119. “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
120. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road unless you fail to make the turn.” – Helen Keller
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