Change Quotes

"Our life is a constant attempt to bridge this gap between the way we are and the way we want to be."

"It is not we who create our fate, but we consent to it."

"Progress depends on retaining an informed discontent."

"I believe all suffering comes from the resistance to change."

"To live in the world without acquiring the world's characteristics, is like living in the world without breathing."

"Nothing is a greater impediment to progress than holding too tightly to what is familiar."

"Each age has its proper forms and expressions."

"The true humanity is not a finished thing, but a thing in progress."

"Nothing is permanent but change."

"Every ending is also a beginning."

"We are shaped by our choices, not our circumstances."

"We cannot change the past, but we can change the meaning we give it."

"The only permanent thing in life is change itself."

"Change is the only constant, yet we all resist it."

"The only constant is change, and change is always painful."

"Change is the only constant that we consistently resist."

"Sorrow comes in great waves, but it rolls over us, and though it may almost submerge us it leaves us on the shore, salted, polished, aware."

"Even the genius must change with the times, or find himself left behind."

"We cannot change the world, but we can change how we perceive it."

"Every moment contains the possibility of transformation."

"If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."

"The greatest discovery of my generation is that a person can change his life by merely changing his attitude."

"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."

"Those who are not willing to change will fall inevitably behind."

"The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change."

"The only way out is through; the only way forward is to face what lies within."

"Change is the only constant; to resist it is to resist life itself."

"One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become."

"The worst thing that happens to us is that we grow accustomed to unhappiness."

"The ability to change is the mark of excellence."