Change & Transformation: Change Quotes

Discover thoughtful quotes that capture how change reshapes habits, goals, and identity. From subtle shifts to bold pivots, these reflections highlight resilience, courage, and the steady practice of adapting with intention. Use them for clarity during transitions, to motivate new beginnings, or to reframe setbacks as learning. Whether navigating career moves, personal growth, or everyday adjustments, these voices offer calm guidance and practical encouragement for embracing uncertainty and moving forward.

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"Just because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed"

Irene Peter, Writer

"Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better"

Richard Hooker, Priest

"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"The curious paradox is that when I accept myself just as I am, then I can change"

Carl Rogers, Psychologist

Carl Rogers

"People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones"

Charles F. Kettering, Inventor

Charles F. Kettering

"Sometimes - history needs a push"

Vladimir Lenin, Leader

Vladimir Lenin

"If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude"

Maya Angelou, Poet

Maya Angelou

"O earth, what changes hast thou seen!"

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Poet

"If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree"

Jim Rohn, Businessman

Jim Rohn

"There is nothing permanent except change"

Heraclitus, Philosopher

Heraclitus

"If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change"

Wayne Dyer, Psychologist

Wayne Dyer

"But we are not in the world to be good but to change it"

Edward Bond, Playwright

Edward Bond

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks"

Warren Buffett, Businessman

Warren Buffett

"We think too small, like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view"

Mao Tse-Tung, Leader

Mao Tse-Tung

"Creative thinking inspires ideas. Ideas inspire change"

Barbara Januszkiewicz, Artist

Barbara Januszkiewicz

"History is the study of change, and change is the only constant in human affairs"

Otto Friedrich, Writer

"A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

"People change and forget to tell each other"

Lillian Hellman, Dramatist

"At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past"

Maurice Maeterlinck, Dramatist

"Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots"

Victor Hugo, Author

Victor Hugo

"Change is the end result of all true learning"

Leo Buscaglia, Author

Leo Buscaglia

"The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens"

Rainer Maria Rilke, Poet

"A rolling stone gathers no moss, but it gains a certain polish"

Oliver Herford, Author

Oliver Herford

"A change in the weather is sufficient to recreate the world and ourselves"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"The world is always in movement"

V. S. Naipaul, Novelist

"Like you, I'm fed up with business as usual in Washington. Send me to Congress, and I won't tweak our broken system. I'll shut it down"

Francine Busby, Politician

"The essential meaning of perestroika for Gorbachev and his supporters was creating and acting on alternatives to failed and dangerous policies at home and abroad"

Stephen Cohen, Educator

"Be the change that you wish to see in the world"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future"

John F. Kennedy, President

John F. Kennedy

"If you're old, don't try to change yourself, change your environment"

B. F. Skinner, Psychologist

B. F. Skinner

"Know what's weird? Day by day, nothing seems to change. But pretty soon, everything's different"

Bill Watterson, Cartoonist

Bill Watterson

"Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating"

William Hazlitt, Critic

William Hazlitt

"Fashion is made to become unfashionable"

Coco Chanel, Designer

Coco Chanel

"Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next"

William Ralph Inge, Clergyman

William Ralph Inge

"The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults"

Alexis de Tocqueville, Historian

Alexis de Tocqueville

"A different world cannot be built by indifferent people"

Peter Marshall, Clergyman

Peter Marshall

"Reform, that we may preserve"

Thomas B. Macaulay, Historian

Thomas B. Macaulay

"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward"

Ellen Glasgow, Novelist

Ellen Glasgow

"Modern invention has banished the spinning wheel, and the same law of progress makes the woman of today a different woman from her grandmother"

Susan B. Anthony, Activist

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