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CHANGE QUOTES: 40 inspirational quotations to help you embrace change

Last updated: May 29th, 2020

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Be the change that you wish to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody. – Stephen Chbosky

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

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. – Nelson Mandela

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 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

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

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. – Rumi

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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

The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind. – Kiran Desai

Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman. – Maya Angelou

We are taught you must blame your father, your sisters, your brothers, the school, the teachers—but never blame yourself. It’s never your fault. But it’s always your fault, because if you wanted to change you’re the one who has got to change. – Katharine Hepburn

I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples. – Mother Teresa

Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky. – Walter Mosley

We are products of our past, but we don’t have to be prisoners of it. – Rick Warren

Often, it’s not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don’t know how to be. – Heath L. Buckmaster

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Out of your vulnerabilities will come your strength. – Sigmund Freud

Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it. – Andy Rooney

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. – Buckminster Fuller

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

The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. – Confucius

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 colours. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – Terry Pratchett

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. – JoyBell C.

Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it. – Ann Landers

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Renew, release, let go. Yesterday’s gone. There’s nothing you can do to bring it back. You can’t “should’ve” done something. You can only DO something. Renew yourself. Release that attachment. Today is a new day! – Steve Maraboli

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing?—it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s goodbye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. – Jack Kerouac

The reason it hurts so much to separate is because our souls are connected. Maybe they always have been and will be. Maybe we’ve lived a thousand lives before this one and in each of them we’ve found each other. And maybe each time, we’ve been forced apart for the same reasons. That means that this goodbye is both a goodbye for the past ten thousand years and a prelude to what will come. – Nicholas Sparks

It is so hard to leave—until you leave. And then it is the easiest goddamned thing in the world. – John Green

One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change. Every society has its protectors of status quo and its fraternities of the indifferent who are notorious for sleeping through revolutions. Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change. – Martin Luther King Jr.

We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better. – JoyBell C.

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

If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living. – Gail Sheehy

I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road. – Stephen Hawking

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

For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: ‘If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?’ And whenever the answer has been ‘No’ for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something. – Steve Jobs

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