It’s usually a good idea to have a few great quotes on hand in difficult times. As the world around you begins to change, or if you know someone about to embark on a new chapter in their life, you’ll be prepared with one of these change quotes to provide some perspective. Even if the change is difficult, you’ll find that taking a big risk is not only important, but it may also lead to incredible outcomes. So, whether you’re searching for a motivational quote to support personal improvement or a positive phrase to encourage global change, these inspirational sayings will help you make a difference. These quotes will help you change your life and encourage you to make a new beginning.
Life-changing quotes
It often takes more courage to change one’s opinion than to stick to it.
-GEOFFREY F. ABERT
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?
-DOUGLAS NOEL ADAMS
Today’s society is ever-changing. One thing that should remain constant and never change is our values.
-J.G.
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
-DOUGLAS NOEL ADAMS
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
-AKHENATON
That’s the risk you take if you change: that people you’ve been involved with won’t like the new you. But other people who do will come along.
-LISA ALTHER
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.
-MAYA ANGELOU
The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.
-MARCUS AURELIUS ANTONINUS
What distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations … is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one’s own efforts.
-HANNAH ARENDT
Lord grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannochanges
the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
-SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything — or nothing.
-LADY NANCY ASTOR
Loss is nothing else but change, and change is Nature’s delight.
-MARCUS AELIUS AURELIUS
Positive Quotes About Change
The universe changes; our life is what our thoughts make it.
-MARCUS AELIUS AURELIUS
We must change in order to survive.
-PEARL BAILEY
Not everything that is faced can be changed. But nothing can be changed until it is faced.
-JAMES ARTHUR BALDWIN
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
-JOEL BARKER
When you make a mistake, don’t look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind, and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
-PHYLLIS BOTTOME]
Other things may change us, but we start and end with the family.
-ANTHONY BRANDT
Everything is changeable; everything appears and disappears; there is no blissful peace until one passes beyond the agony of life and death.
-BUDDHA
Everything changes; nothing remains without change.
-BUDDHA
You can’t change who you are, but you can surely make the best of it. And if you’ve got a thought, act on it.
-EMMA BUNTON
We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.
-EDMUND BURKE
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
-CAROL BURNETT
Change is the result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self-a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change-the willful act of making the change; Doing Something.
-DR FELICE LEONARDO BUSCAGLIA
The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itself-always changing, infinite in its variety, sometimes turbulent and all the more valuable for having been tested by adversity.
-JAMES EARL JIMMY CARTER, J.R.
We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.
-JAMES EARL JIMMY CARTER, JR
Man is a creature of hope and invention, both of which believe the idea that things cannot be changed.
-TOM CLANCY
Life is change. Growth is optional. Choose wisely.
-KAREN KAISER CLARK
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
-HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
It is only the wisest and the stupidest that cannot change.
-CONFUCIUS
Famous Quotes About Change
If anything is certain, it is that change is certain. The world we are planning for today will not exist in this form tomorrow.
-PHILIP BAYARD CROSBY
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent; it is the one that is most adaptable to change.
-CHARLES ROBERT DARWIN
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life, and the procedure, the process, is its own reward.
-ROBYN DAVIDSON
Bebop was about change, about evolution. It wasn’t about standing still and becoming safe. If anybody wants to keep creating, they have to be about change.
-MILES DEWEY DAVIS
Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, those who can’t are those in cemeteries.
-EVERETT MCKINLEY DIRKSEN
In a progressive country, change is constant; change is inevitable.
-BENJAMIN DIZZY DISRAELI
If you don’t like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.
-MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN
He who never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser tomorrow than he is today.
-TRYON EDWARDS
If the facts don’t fit the theory, change the facts.
-ALBERT EINSTEIN
A photograph never grows old. You and I change. People change all through the months and years, but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of a mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind.
-ALBERT EINSTEIN