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
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