Change Quotes

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

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"There is nothing in this world constant, but inconstancy."
Jonathan Swift
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"Change is the only constant in life."
Jonathan Swift
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"Fortune shows her power chiefly in times of change."
Jonathan Swift
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"Sorrow, like joy, is temporary; only growth is permanent."
Ann Radcliffe
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"In every person lies the potential for transformation and redemption."
Ann Radcliffe
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"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
Samuel Johnson
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"There are few things that we so unwillingly give up as the superstitions of our childhood."
Samuel Johnson
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"Reformation must begin with individuals."
Samuel Johnson
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"The whole of life is nothing but a perpetual alteration of matters."
Frances Burney
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"In this world, nothing is certain but change and adaptation."
Henry Fielding
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"Change is inevitable, but wisdom lies in directing it toward good."
Henry Fielding
"Custom makes all things easy."
Daniel Defoe
"To change your circumstances, first change your thoughts."
Daniel Defoe
"Change is the only constant in life."
Eliza Haywood
"Every moment is an opportunity for transformation."
Eliza Haywood
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"There is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy."
Jonathan Swift
"All the greatest beauties of creation are in mutability and change."
Aphra Behn
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"We are not defined by our circumstances, but by our choices."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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"We must be the change we wish to see."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"Change is the only certainty, and those who resist it are fighting against the very nature of existence."
Eliza Haywood
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"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
Samuel Johnson
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"Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end."
Samuel Johnson
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"Mutability is the only permanence."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Good-bye to the life I knew."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
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"Let the stale and misty Past go, for nothing is endured forever."
Percy Bysshe Shelley
"Those who fear change remain forever enslaved to the past."
Aphra Behn
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"Without Contraries is no progression."
William Blake
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"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
"The world changes, we change with it."
Christina Rossetti
"One foot on sea and one on shore, to one thing constant never."
Christina Rossetti