In our lives, change can take various forms. With these quotes on change, you’ll be ready to develop and prosper.
Accepting and adapting to change and all it has to offer is often the only way to enhance our lives.
Whatever changes you’re facing, these quotations about change can help you adjust to them with happiness and enthusiasm.
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Every strong team knows how to shift and adapt to their circumstances, whether it’s a pitcher altering the pitch they’re going to throw on the mound or a CEO altering a vertical’s go-to-market strategy. Change takes time to adjust to, whether in business or in life, and even the best struggle to stay up. So, how can you prepare for change, or even initiate the change you desire in your community, team, or life?
Here are some motivational change quotes that simplify life and business experiences to motivate you to achieve great things.
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.__John C. Maxwell
Change your thinking, change your life.___Ernest Holmes
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.― Stephen Chbosky
Grief does not change you, Hazel. It reveals you.― John Green
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.___John Wooden
Nothing endures but change. – Heraclitus
Nothing is forever except change.___Buddha
All great changes are preceded by chaos.___Deepak Chopra
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.___Arthur Shopenhauer
When in doubt, choose change. – Lily Leung
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
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.― Nelson Mandela
By changing nothing, nothing changes.___Tony Robbins
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.___Mahatma Gandhi
Quotes about Change
Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.___J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in The Rye
The more things change, the more they are the same. – Alphonse Karr
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.___Marilyn Monroe
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.― Albert Einstein
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.― Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.___Mandy Hale
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.___Hermann Hesse
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.___Frank Herbert
There is nothing permanent except change.___Heraclitus
Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.― Lemony Snicket
Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?___Lord Byron
Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.___Robert Frost
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.___Winston Churchill
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.― C. JoyBell C
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.___Elbert Hubbard
Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.___Frida Kahlo
Change before you have to. – Jack Welch
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
Change is the end result of all true learning.___Leo Buscaglia
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
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.___James Baldwin
Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.___Billy C
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.____Confucius
One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.___Napoleon Bonaparte
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.___William Arthur Ward
Change is inevitable — except from a vending machine. – Robert Gallagher
Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.___Coco Chanel
Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.___Adlai Stephenson
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.
You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.___Timothy Leary
In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.___Warren Buffett
When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.___Benjamin Franklin
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.___Harold Wilson
If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.___Anita Roddick
I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.___Henry Rollins
The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.___Oprah Winfrey
Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.___Tony Robbins
Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.___Seth Godin
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.___Nelson Mandela
If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.___Martin Luther
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.___Rumi
Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.___Steve Jobs
Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.___Isaac Asimov
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
Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.___Walt Disney
Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.____Elon Musk
All things are difficult before they are easy. – Thomas Fuller
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.___Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.___Bill Clinton
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.____Libba Bray
When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.___Lao Tzu
Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience.___Robert Greene
Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.___Mignon McLaughlin
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.___Oprah Winfrey
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. – Jim Rohn
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.___Pauline R. Kezer
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.___Francis Bacon
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.___Rev. Jesse Jackson
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.___Martin Luther King, Jr.
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.____Khalil Gibran
If change is constant, then learning must also be continual.____Meir Liraz
To know and not to do, is not to know. – Leo Buscaglia
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.___Georg Lichtenberg
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.___Peter Drucker
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.___Raymond Lindquist
There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.___Theodore Rooosevelt
For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.____Tony Robbins
The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.___Charles Dubois
What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
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
I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.____Niccolo Machiavelli
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, Life, the Truth, and Being Free
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
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.___Alfred North Whitehead
Quotes about Adapting
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.___Charles Darwin
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.___Abraham Maslow
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.____Victor Hugo
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.___Stephen Hawking
Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.___Sir Richard Branson
A year from now you will wish you had started today.___Karen Lamb
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
The more you adapt, the more interesting you are. – Martha Stewart
Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.___Max McKeown
I’m adaptable.___Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises
The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.___Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea
Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.___Rev. Jesse Jackson
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.___Mahatma Gandhi
The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.___Japanese Proverb
Transformation literally means going beyond your form. – Wayne Dyer
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.___Sir Francis Bacon
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.____Allan Wilson Watts
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
All is flux, nothing stays still.– Plato
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.___Arnold Bennett
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.___Ellen Glasgow
Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.___Robert Brault
The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.___Nancy Astor
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.___Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.___Nathaniel Branden
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.___Stephen Chbosky
Changing Yourself
People do not change, they are merely revealed.___Anne Enright
If you can’t change it, change your attitude.___Maya Angelou
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.____Gail Sheehy
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?___W. Sommerset Maugham
It’s never too late to be who you might have been. – George Eliot
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.___Roy T. Bennett
If you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better.___Philip Vang
The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.___C. Joybell C.
You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.___Orrin Woodward
We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.___LeeAnn Taylor
A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships are built.___John A. Shedd
Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.___Ali Vincent
To change one’s life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.___William James
No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.___Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.___Joyce Meyer
If you want things in your life to change, you have to change things in your life.___Kevin Trudeau
Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at.___Jason Lemkin
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.___Spanish Proverb
Change alone is unchanging.___Heraclitus
Things do not change; we change.___Henry David Thoreau
True life is lived when tiny changes occur. – Leo Tolstoy
You must welcome change as the rule, but not as your ruler.____Denis Waitley
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.___Denis Waitley
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
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.___William Arthur Ward
All things must change to something new, to something strange.___Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.___Ovid
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.___Andre Gide
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.___Owen Feltham
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.___Victor Frankl
Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change.___Catherine Pulsifer
The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.___Vernon Howard
The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps. – Steve Maraboli
Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.___Dalai Lama
Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.___Steve Backley
If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.___Henry Ford
Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.___Michael Jordan
You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It’s by taking chances that you’ll learn how to be brave.___Charles Darwin
Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.___Alain de Botton
Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.___Rev. Billy Graham
It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.____Alan Cohen
You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.___Jim Rohn
Change yourself and your work will seem different. – Norman Vincent Peale
You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.____Marianne Williamson
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
You cannot change what you are, only what you do. – Philip Pullman
You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.___Neil Gaiman
If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.___Wayne W. Dyer
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
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.___Mark Twain
Changing Others Quotes
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.___Winston Churchill
Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around.___Roy T. Bennett
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.___Carol Burnett
You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.___Roy T. Bennett
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change. – Mignon McLaughlin
Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.___Jacob M. Braude
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.___Katherine Hepburn
There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.___Josh Billings
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.____Carl Jung
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.___Hariet Tubman
You really can change the world if you care enough. – Marian Wright Edelman
Things don’t have to change the world to be important.___Steve Jobs
We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.___Dr. David Hawkins
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.____Tuli Kupferberg
In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.____Benjamin Disraeli
You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.____Buckminster Fuller
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.___Aldous Huxley
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.___Mother
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.___Margaret Mead
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.____Barak Obama
We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.___John Wooden
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.___Albert Einstein
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.___George Bernard Shaw
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.___Debby Boone
The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.____Socrates
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.___Andy Warhol
It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.___Bob Proctor
The future has a way of arriving unannounced. – George Will
If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.___Roy T. Bennett
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
Dynamism is a function of change.___Hillary Clinton
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.___Henri Bergson
There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.___C.S. Lewis
We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.___Sheryl Sandberg