Change Quotes

Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.

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"Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it, the loss of all that gave one an identity."
James Baldwin
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"We must accept that within the person is the capacity for radical change and transformation."
James Baldwin
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"Change is the only constant in life."
Pearl S. Buck
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"We must be the change we wish to see."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn."
John Steinbeck
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"The greatest discovery a man can make is his own capacity for change."
John Steinbeck
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"Change is the only constant."
William Faulkner
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"The road of life twists and turns, but eventually leads where you need to be."
Langston Hughes
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"Change begins with one person deciding to be different."
Langston Hughes
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"Chasing yesterday is a painful way to live."
Ernest Hemingway
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"What is new in any case is always bad."
Ernest Hemingway
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"The only natural thing is change."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"I have always been more interested in the future than in preserving the past."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"I took the best of what I was given and discarded the rest."
Zora Neale Hurston
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"Any upheaval in the world order is terrifying to those invested in the old order."
James Baldwin
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"To accept one's past is to simultaneously prepare for one's future."
James Baldwin
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"Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them."
Pearl S. Buck
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"To be reborn, you must die first and think about yourself as an individual."
Pearl S. Buck
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"It is the nature of progress that it makes the past seem wrong."
Sinclair Lewis
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"We accept the verdict of the past until the need for change cries out loudly enough to force upon us a choice between the comforts of further inertia and the anguish of action."
Sinclair Lewis
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"To change one's life, start immediately, do it flamboyantly, no exceptions."
Sinclair Lewis
"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."
Theodore Dreiser
"Change is the only constant in life."
Theodore Dreiser
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"That's the difference between resurrection and death."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"Modern times demand modern virtues."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The hardest thing to understand is why we ever stop being young."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"The most beautiful things that we have come from disorder and change, not permanence."
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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"One faces the future with one's past."
Pearl S. Buck
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"Nothing is permanent; change is the only constant."
Pearl S. Buck
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"The measure of intelligence is the ability to change."
Edith Wharton