“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.
” “The power to change your life lies in the
– Leo Tolstoy
By changing nothing, nothing changes.
Tony Robbins
All great changes are preceded by chaos.
Deepak Chopra
Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.
Arthur Shopenhauer
“When in doubt, choose change.” – Lily
Leung
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
John C. Maxwell
Change your thinking, change your life
Ernest Holmes
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might
be.
John Wooden
Nothing is forever except change.
Buddha
Quotes about Changing the World
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
“You really can change the world if you care
enough.” – Marian Wright Edelman
The world as we have created it is a process of
our thinking. It cannot be changed without
changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
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
“Be the change that you wish to see in the
world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.
Tuli Kupferberg
Things don’t have to change the world to be
important.
Steve Jobs
Even if you cannot change all the people
around you, you can change the people you
choose to be around.
Roy T. Bennett
We change the world not by what we say or do,
but as a consequence of what we have become.
Dr. David Hawkins
“Change your thoughts and you change
your world.” – Norman Vincent Peale
You never change things by fighting the existing
reality. To change something, build a new
model that makes the existing model obsolete.
Buckminster Fuller
The philosophers have only interpreted the
world, in various ways: the point, however, is to
change it.
Karl Marx
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 Theresa
“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
Education  is the most powerful weapon which
you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
The people who are crazy enough to think they
can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
In a progressive country change is constant;
change is inevitable.
Benjamin Disraeli
Quotes about Changing Yourself
People do not change, they are merely revealed.
Anne Enright
If you can’t change it, change your  attitude.
Maya Angelou
If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be
like this forever. Is that good news?
W. Sommerset Maugham
You never change your life until you step out of
simplest of steps.” – Steve Maraboli
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
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
“Open your arms to change, but don’t let
go of your values.” – Dalai Lama
It’s never too late to be who you might have
been.
George Eliot
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
“Change yourself and your work will seem
different.” – Norman Vincent Peale
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
“You must learn a new way to think before
you can master a new way to be.” –
Marianne Williamson
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
When we are no longer able to change a
situation, we are challenged to change
ourselves.
Victor Frankl
William Arthur Ward
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 braver than you believe, and stronger
than you seem, and smarter than you think.
A.A. Milne
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
Quotes about Changing Others
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for
me.
Carol Burnett
A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and
won’t change the subject.
Winston Churchill
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
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
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
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
“If you want to change attitudes, start with
a change in behavior.” – Katherine Hepburn
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t
stop for anybody.
Stephen Chbosky
Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a
chain or freed a human soul.
Mark Twain
There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t
change their opinions and those who won’t.
Josh Billings
Quotes About Change
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
Change alone is unchanging.
Heraclitus
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
“Nothing endures but change.” – Heraclitus
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
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
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
Sometimes good things fall apart so better
things can fall together.
Marilyn Monroe
Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe,
a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.
All things must change to something new, to
something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The future has a way of arriving
unannounced.” – George Will
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
Fashion changes, but style endures.
Coco Chanel
Perfection is immutable. But for things
imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
Owen Feltham
“Dynamism is a function of change.” –
Hillary Clinton
Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever
grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes
without a dream.
Debby Boone
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
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
“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
There are far better things ahead than any we
leave behind.
C.S. Lewis
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
“All is flux, nothing stays still.” – Plato
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 Cox
The art of progress is to preserve order amid
change and to preserve change amid order.
Alfred North Whitehead
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to
mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
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
We cannot change what we are not aware of,
and once we are aware, we cannot help but
change.
Sheryl Sandberg
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
“All things are difficult before they are
easy.” – Thomas Fuller
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
Advancement Quotes
Progress is impossible without change, and
those who cannot change their minds cannot
change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to
change often.
Winston Churchill
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 is the end result of all true
learning.” – Leo Buscaglia
The main dangers in this life are the people who
want to change everything or nothing.
Nancy Astor
Change almost never fails because it’s too early.
It almost always fails because it’s too late.
Seth Godin
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
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
Change does not roll in on the wheels of
inevitability, but comes through continuous
struggle.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
The entrepreneur always searches for change,
responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
Peter Drucker
“If change is constant, then learning must
also be continual.” – Meir Liraz
To know and not to do, is not to know.
Leo Buscaglia
Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in
advancing toward what will be.
Khalil Gibran
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
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
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
“Your life does not get better by chance, it The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die.
gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn As well the minds which are prevented from
Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
making those slight changes that would make Friedrich Nietzsche
all the difference. They must often change, who would be
Mignon McLaughlin constant in happiness or wisdom.
Step out of the history that is holding you back. Confucius
Step into the new story you are willing to create. One must change one’s tactics every ten years if
Oprah Winfrey one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.
Continuity gives us roots; change gives us Napoleon Bonaparte
branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach The first step toward change is awareness. The
new heights. second step is acceptance.
Pauline R. Kezer Nathaniel Branden
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon Funny Change Quotes
“I’m not interested in preserving the status You’re only as young as the last time you
quo; I want to overthrow it.” – Niccolo changed your mind.
Machiavelli Timothy Leary
Incredible change happens in your life when “Change is inevitable — except from a
you decide to take control of what you do have vending machine.” – Robert C. Gallagher
power over instead of craving control over what In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to
you don’t. changing vessels is more productive than
Steve Maraboli,  Life, the Truth, and Being Free energy devoted to patching leaks.
Some changes look negative on the surface but Warren Buffett
you will soon realize that space is being created When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.
in your life for something new to emerge. Benjamin Franklin
Eckhart Tolle The pessimist complains about the wind; the
optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts
Quotes about Adapting the sails.
Every success story is a tale of constant William Arthur Ward
adaption, revision and change. Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to
Sir Richard Branson transform it into a door.
A year from now you will wish you had started Coco Chanel
today. “Change is inevitable. Change for the better
Karen Lamb is a full-time job.” – Adlai Stephenson
“The more you adapt, the more interesting If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll
you are.” – Martha Stewart change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t
Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. worry it’ll change.
Only by being open to change will you have a John A. Simone Sr
true opportunity to get the most from your He who rejects change is the architect of decay.
talent. The only human institution which rejects
Nolan Ryan progress is the cemetery.
Transformation literally means going beyond Harold Wilson
your form. If you think you’re too small to have an impact,
Wayne W. Dyer try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.
Adaptability is about the powerful difference Anita Roddick
between adapting to cope and adapting to win. “I want to change things for the better, just
Max McKeown like everybody else.” – Henry Rollins
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
Adaptability is about the powerful difference
between adapting to cope and adapting to win.
Max McKeown
“Courage is the power to let go of the
familiar.” – Raymond Lindquist
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
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
He that will not apply new remedies must
expect new evils; for time is the greatest
innovator.
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
Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a
great and sudden change.
Mary Shelley,  Frankenstein
We cannot change anything until we accept it.
Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we
don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” – Gail
Sheehy