50 Quotes on Change to Upgrade Your Life

I hope these quotes on change bring you the inspiration, motivation and encouragement needed to tap into your best self.

You’ve been an amazing, empowered gift to the world from the moment of your conception.  That hasn’t changed and it will never change.  It is your vision of yourself that needs to catch up with who you truly are, so that you may change your life-experience to one of sheer bliss.

Quotes on Change

1.    “Change will only come about when each of us takes up the daily struggle ourselves to be more forgiving, compassionate, loving, and above all joyful in the knowledge that, by some miracle of grace, we can change as those around us can change too.”
—Mairead Maguire

2.     “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.”
—Unknown

3.    “Begin challenging your own assumptions. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in awhile, or the light won’t come in.”
—Alan Alda

4.    “Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.”
—Pauline R. Kezer

5.    “It seldom happens that a man changes his life through his habitual reasoning. No matter how fully he may sense the new plans and aims revealed to him by reason, he continues to plod along in old paths until his life becomes frustrating and unbearable—he finally makes the change only when his usual life can no longer be tolerated.”
—Leo Tolstoy

6.    “A competitive world offers two possibilities. You can lose. Or, if you want to win, you can change.”
—Lester Thurow

7.    “If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
—Lao Tzu

8.    “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

9.    “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
—Oprah Winfrey

10.    “The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.”
—Alan Watts

11.    “He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.”
—Harold Wilson

12.    “The circumstances of the world are so variable that an irrevocable purpose or opinion is almost synonymous with a foolish one.”
—William H. Seward

13.    “Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.”
—Pauline R. Kezer

14.     “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
—Barbara de Angelis

15.    “The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.”
—Bill Clinton

16.    “If we fall, we don’t need self-recrimination or blame or anger – we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to re-commit, to be whole-hearted once again.”
—Sharon Salzberg

17.    “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

18.    “There are no prescriptive solutions, no grand designs for grand problems. Life’s solutions lie in the minute particulars involving more and more individual people daring to create their own life and art, daring to listen to the voice within their deepest, original nature, and deeper still, the voice within the earth.”
—Stephen Nachmanovitch

19.     “New insights fail to get put into practice because they conflict with deeply held internal images of how the world works … images that limit us to familiar ways of thinking and acting.”
—Peter Senge

20.    “I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.”
—Georg C. Lichtenberg

21.    “The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.”
—M. Scott Peck

22.    “It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.”
—Epictetus

23.    “We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
—Anais Nin

24.    “In times of change, learners inherit the Earth, while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.”
—Eric Hoffer

25.    “The sea rises, the light fails, lovers cling to each other, and children cling to us. The moment we cease to hold each other, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out.”
—James Baldwin

26.    “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. There is more security in the adventurous and exciting, for in movement there is life, and in change there is power.”
—Alan Cohen

27.    “What we think determines what happens to us, so if we want to change our lives, we need to stretch our minds.”
—Wayne Dyer

28.     “It’s not so much that we’re afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it’s that place in between that we fear . . . . It’s like being between trapezes. It’s Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There’s nothing to hold on to.”
—Marilyn Ferguson

29.     “When one door of happiness closes, another opens; But often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.”
—Helen Keller

30.    “We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”
—Harrison Ford

31.    “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. Don’t complain.”
—Maya Angelou

32.    “Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.”
—Thomas Carlyle

33.    “Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.”
—Maria Robinson

34.    “Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.”
–Unknown

35.    “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

36.    “A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.”
—Winston Churchill

37.    “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

38.    “Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.”
—John Wooden

39.    “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
—Wayne Dyer

40.    “You can change your world by changing your words… Remember, death and life are in the power of the tongue.”
—Joel Osteen

41.    “You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.”
—Jim Rohn

42.    “It doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations. If we go into a darkened room and turn on the light, it doesn’t matter if the room has been dark for a day, a week, or ten thousand years – we turn on the light and it is illuminated.”
—Sharon Salzberg

43.    “No one is in control of your happiness but you; therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.”
—Barbara de Angelis

44.    “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

45.    “Change is inevitable; we will always exist in the midst of it. It is our choice whether we will be its victim or its architect.”
—Merikay McLeod

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

47.    “Change has a considerable psychological impact on the human mind. To the fearful it is threatening because it means that things may get worse. To the hopeful it is encouraging because things may get better. To the confident it is inspiring because the challenge exists to make things better.”
—King Whitney Jr.

48.     “The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.”
—Bill Clinton

49.    “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”
—George Bernard Shaw

50.    “Whether by accident or design, these are the moments when, because of a readiness within us and a collaboration with events occurring around us, we are forced to seriously reappraise ourselves and the conditions under which we live and to make certain choices that will affect the rest of our lives.”
—Frederick F. Flack

I hope at least one of these quotes on change has touched you in some way that reminds you of your ability and responsibility to change life according to your greatest desires.

50 Quotes on Change to Upgrade Your Life

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