Change Quotes

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

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"To be conservative in one's old age is to be hopeless."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Nothing is permanent in this world except change."
Leo Tolstoy
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"The greatest revolution is in personal transformation."
Leo Tolstoy
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"All things flow and nothing abides; all is subjected to a process of becoming."
Anton Chekhov
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"All great souls are born into confusion."
Ivan Turgenev
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"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
William Butler Yeats
"Change is the only constant."
Samuel Beckett
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"He invented a new personality for himself, as one might invent a new dress."
Oscar Wilde
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"To be conservative is not to fear change, but to fear chaos."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing themselves."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Every moment is a chance to choose differently."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Chaos is a friend. He's an old friend. We must embrace him."
James Joyce
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"Every moment contains the seeds of transformation."
James Joyce
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"Every ending is also a beginning in disguise."
James Joyce
"Habit is a great deadener."
Samuel Beckett
"To improve is to change."
Samuel Beckett
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"Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them."
Anton Chekhov
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"Change is not something to fear; it is the only constant."
Anton Chekhov
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"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself."
George Bernard Shaw
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"All things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay."
William Butler Yeats
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"What else is change but death itself, and yet what else is life but constant change?"
William Butler Yeats
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"When one door closes, another opens; but we often regret the door we left behind."
William Butler Yeats
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"Change is the only constant in life."
Thomas Hardy
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"Every moment is a chance to change your life."
Thomas Hardy
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"Every Saint has a past, every sinner has a future."
Oscar Wilde
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"There is nothing in the world so irresistible as a new fashion."
Oscar Wilde
"We breathe, we change, we end."
Samuel Beckett
"I would like to believe in something permanent, but change is all I know."
Samuel Beckett