30+ Inspiring Quotes About Change, Because We Never Stop Evolving
These powerful sayings prove moving on and taking risks can be exactly what you need.
In unsure times, it's always good to have a few famous quotes to fall back on. As things around you start shifting, or you know someone about to start a new chapter in their life, you'll be ready with one of these quotes about change to give some perspective. And even though change can be really hard, you'll see that sometimes, taking a great risk is not only necessary but it can yield unbelievable results. So whether you're looking for a motivational quote to inspire growth in yourself, or a positive quote to spur change in the world at large, these inspirational sayings will help you make a change for the better.
James Baldwin
Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.
Coretta Scott King
It doesn't matter how strong your opinion are. If you don't use your power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem.
Deepak Chopra
All great changes are preceded by choas.
Zoraida Córdova
We all get scared and want to turn away, but it isn't always strength that makes you stay. Strength is also making the decision to change your destiny.
Claudia Flores
We must be impatient for change. Let us remember that our voice is a precious gift and we must use it.
Lao Tzu
If you do not change direction, you might end up where you are heading.
Adrienne Rich
The moment of change is the only poem.
Alan Watts
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
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Barack Obama
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.
Barbara Kingsolver
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
Carol Burnett
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.
Charles Darwin
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
C. JoyBell C.
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.
Erica Jong
I have accepted fear as part of life — specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.
Helen Keller
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
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David Bowie
Time may change me, but I can’t trace time.
Henri Bergson
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.
Lily Leung
When in doubt, choose change.
Marisa (she/her) has covered all things parenting, from the postpartum period through the empty nest, for Good Housekeeping since 2018; previously, she wrote about parents and families at Parents and Working Mother. She lives with her toy-collecting husband and daughter in Brooklyn, where she can be found helping out her team at bar trivia or posting about movies on Twitter and Bluesky.
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