116+ Best Quotes About Change For The Better

Change, alter both mean to make a difference in the state or condition of a thing or to substitute another state or condition. Inspirational quotes about change for the better will get you through anything when the going gets tough and help you succeed in every aspect of life.

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Famous Quotes About Change For The Better

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. – Albert Einstein

It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Bob Proctor

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw

quotes about change for the better

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying. – Michael Jordan

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

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. – Wayne Gretzky

Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay. – Simone De Beauvoir

Lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at you. – David Brinkley

One day spent with someone you love can change everything. – Mitch Albom

Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence. – Jean Paul

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard

True life is lived when tiny changes occur. – Leo Tolstoy

Change your thoughts and you change your world. – Norman Vincent Peale

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. – Bikram Choudhury

Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers, and business. – Mark Sanborn

If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost. – Barack Obama

Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you. – William Frederick Book

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

To create more positive results in your life, replace ‘if only’ with ‘next time’. – Unknown

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. – Chinese Proverb

Let him who would move the world first move himself. – Socrates

If work were so pleasant, the rich would keep it for themselves. – Mark Twain

Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy creating. – M.F. Ryan

Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. – Mahatma Gandhi

Use what talents you possess, the woods will be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. – Henry van Dyke

It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. – Charles Darwin

But you’re so busy changing the world. Just one smile can change all of mine – Jack Johnson

It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Bob Proctor

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

Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. – Bikram Choudhury

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. – Arnold Bennett

In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. – Warren Buffett

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. – C.S. Lewis

By changing nothing, nothing changes. – Tony Robbins

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

Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person. – Leo Tolstoy

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

As soon as anyone starts telling you to be “realistic,” cross that person off your invitation list. – John Eliot

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide

No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t. – Stephen King

When in doubt, choose change. – Lily Leung

One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. – Unknown

All great changes are preceded by chaos. – Deepak Chopra

Courage doesn’t always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says I’ll try again tomorrow. – Mary Anne Radmacher

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. – Marilyn Monroe

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude. – Maya Angelou

When in doubt, choose change. – Lily Leung

And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time – Libba Bray

All great changes are preceded by chaos. – Deepak Chopra

Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved. – William Jennings Bryan

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

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

Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change. – Brené Brown

The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. – Albert Einstein

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

Sure, everything is ending,” Jules said, “but not yet. – Jennifer Egan

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. – C.S. Lewis

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up – Andy Law

Nothing is as painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change. – Mary Shelley

Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. – Marilyn Monroe

Change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn’t all bad – not by any means. In fact, change is necessary in life – to keep us moving … to keep us growing … to keep us interested . … Imagine life without change. It would be static … boring … du – Dr. Dennis O’Grady

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

Every generation needs a new revolution. – Thomas Jefferson

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess. – Lemony Snicket

Change is inevitable. Change is constant. – Benjamin Disraeli

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

You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. – A.A. Milne

Never, never, never, never give up. – Winston Churchill

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

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

If you love deeply, you’re going to get hurt badly. But it’s still worth it. – C.S. Lewis

If you wait, all that happens is you get older. – Larry McMurtry

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. – Winston Churchill

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

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

Believe something and the Universe is on its way to being changed. Because you’ve changed, by believing. Once you’ve changed, other things start to follow. Isn’t that the way it works? – Diane Duane

What I like most about change is that it’s a synonym for hope . If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it. – Linda Ellerbee

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

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

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. – Aldous Huxle

If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior. – Katharine Hepburn

When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them. – Andy Warhol

Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. – Jim Rohn

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

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

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

Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. – Christina Baldwin

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished. – Benjamin Franklin

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

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

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being. – Jennifer Hudson

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. – Aldous Huxley

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let’s love turbulence and use it for change. – Ramsay Clark

Things changed, people changed, and the world went rolling along right outside the window. – Nicholas Sparks

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

Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change. – Wayne W. Dyer

To change the name and not the letter, is a change for the worst, and not for the better. – Robert Chambers

Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy creating. – M. F. Ryan

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday. – Steve Maraboli

If you wish to be happy, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change. – Christopher Paolini

Change not only was inevitable, but usually brought its own rewards. – Nicholas Sparks

One cause of misery is the inability to change. – Edward Counsel

Nothing happens until the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change – Arthur Burt

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

We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. – Joseph Campbell

The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change. – Bill Clinton

Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. – Jim Rohn

Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. – Walter Anderson

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

We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. – Maya Angelou

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well. – Sarah Dessen

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

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