Inspirational Quotes About Change

Change is necessary when we want to pursue a new direction in life. Change gives us hope for the future. Embracing change is not easy. It takes a new outlook on life, determination and perseverance. The change we expect may not happen immediately because real progress is slow. In time, if we change our mindset and actions we will make a significant difference in people's lives. Here's a collection of inspirational quotes about change. Feel free to use these quotes for a New Year's resolution or a personal mission statement. If you have an inspirational quote feel free to share it by leaving a comment.

"The key to change... is to let go of fear."
--Rosanne Cash

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves."
--Victor Frankl

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

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

"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others."
--Pericles

"God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it's me."
--Author Unknown

"It is always the simple things that change our lives. And these things never happen when you are looking for them to happen. Life will reveal answers at the pace life wishes to do so. You feel like running, but life is on a stroll. This is how God does things."
--Donald Miller

"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
--Henry Miller

"He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
--Francis Bacon

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
--Mignon McLaughlin

"If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing."
--Saint Augustine

"There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction"
--Winston Churchill

"They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself."
--Andy Warhol

"Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him."
--Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

"We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it."
--John Steinbeck

"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change, but pretty soon...everything's different."
--Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes

"The doors we open and close each day decide the lives we live."
--Flora Whittemore

"The wheel of change moves on, and those who were down go up and those who were up go down."
--Jawaharlal Nehru

"Nothing endures but change."
--Heraclitus

"When you are through changing, you are through."
--Bruce Barton

"Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!"
--Andre Gide

"The great thing is, if one can, to stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions in one's "own" or "real" life. The truth is, of course, that what one regards as interruptions are precisely one's life."
--C.S. Lewis

"If you're in a bad situation, don't worry it'll change. If you're in a good situation, don't worry it'll change."
--John A. Simone, Sr.

"Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever."
--Keri Russell

"A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea."
--John Ciardi

"We would rather be ruined than changed;
We would rather die in our dread
Than climb the cross of the moment
And let our illusions die."
--W.H. Auden

"Change always comes bearing gifts."
--Price Pritchett

"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and forty-eight."
--Ezra Pound

"We did not change as we grew older; we just became more clearly ourselves."
--Lynn Hall

"After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over."
--Alfred Edward Perlman

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

"Change is inevitable - except from a vending machine."
--Robert C. Gallagher

"Every beginning is a consequence - every beginning ends some thing."
--Paul Valery

"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 another."
--Anatole France

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."
--Ellen Glasgow

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."
--Norman Vincent Peale

"Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril."
--Laurens van der Post

"Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending."
--Maria Robinson

"When you jump for joy, beware that no one moves the ground from beneath your feet."
--Stanislaw Lec

Change yourself, change your fortunes.
--Portuguese Proverb

"In order to accept change and the suffering it brings, we need to find meaning in it."
--Mary Norton Gordon

"They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom."
--Confucius

"To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable."
--Helen Keller

"Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are."
--Bertold Brecht

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

"If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
--Woodrow Wilson

"There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
--Nelson Mandela

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies."
--Author Unknown

"What can we take on trust
in this uncertain life? Happiness, greatness,
pride - nothing is secure, nothing keeps."
--Euripides, Hecuba

"People don't change. Only their costumes do."
--Gene Moore

"Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour."
--Arthur Schopenhauer

"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"If you don't like something change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it."
--Mary Engelbreit

"We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance."
--Harrison Ford

"Growth is the only evidence of life."
--John Henry Newman

"Resolve to be a master of change rather than a victim of change."
--Brian Tracy

"Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect composure. But unfortunately, although it is true, it is difficult for us to accept it. Because we cannot accept the truth of transience, we suffer." --Shunryu Suzuki

"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed."
--Irene Peter

"The birds are molting. If only man could molt also - his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions."
--James Allen

"The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step."
--Lao Tse

"Time, which changes people, does not alter the image we have retained of them."
--Marcel Proust

"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

"Our only security is our ability to change."
--John Lilly

"Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly."
--Francis Bacon

"A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar."
--Confucius

"We change, whether we like it or not"
--Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Change does not change tradition. It strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity; not a threat."
--Prince Phillip of England

"If you want to truly understand something, try to change it."
--Kurt Lewin

"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference."
--Reinhold Niebuhr

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