Change Quotes
Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.
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"The most valuable thing we can possess is the ability to grow."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The past cannot be changed, but the future is entirely within our control."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The human spirit is capable of remarkable transformation."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The path of least resistance rarely leads to growth."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"The same winds that blow one ship north blow another south."Herman Melville
"Change is the only permanence in the universe."Herman Melville
"All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward."Anatole France
"What is called progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance."Anatole France
"Change is necessary in life as the seasons turn."Anatole France
"Change is the only constant, which means nothing ever truly changes."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Change is the only constant, yet we spend our lives resisting it."François Mauriac
"The present state of the world seems to demand utterly new modes of thought and action."Henry James
"The secret of progress is the replacement of one nuisance with another."Mark Twain
"Tradition is the illusion of permanence."Mark Twain
"It is often the case that a rosy sunrise shall forecast a gloomy day."Herman Melville
"The power to change is the power to create new possibilities."Herman Melville
"Human nature will not flourish, any more than will a potato, if it be planted and replanted in the same worn-out soil."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"We should willingly change nearly all the customs of life if we thoroughly understood how absurd they are."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"To imagine oneself different is a start toward becoming different."Nathaniel Hawthorne
"Change is inevitable, yet humans resist it at every turn."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Change is the only constant, yet we fight it with every breath."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"Change is the only constant in life."Romain Rolland
"Embrace change as growth."Romain Rolland
"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 blindness and the irksomeness of action."Anatole France
"All changes are more or less tinged with melancholy, for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves."Anatole France
"The adolescent years are when we discover the gap between who we are and who we wish to be."François Mauriac
"Change is the only certainty, yet we build our lives on the illusion of permanence."François Mauriac
"Change is the only constant, and those who resist it are resisting life itself"Henry James
"The only constant in life is change, and those who resist it are doomed."Louis-Ferdinand Céline
"A change in the weather is sufficient to reconstruct the entire world and ourselves."Marcel Proust