Change Quotes

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

27059 quotes

"Every ending contains a new beginning."
Samuel Beckett
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"The force of the world is constantly changing."
James Joyce
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"Change is the only constant of existence."
James Joyce
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"Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
Leo Tolstoy
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"To change others, we must first change ourselves."
Leo Tolstoy
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"Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being."
George Eliot
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"Character is not cut in marble; it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing."
George Eliot
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"If there is no transformation of humanity, there is no future."
George Eliot
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"The unreasoning mask called a habit."
Thomas Hardy
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"To change is to grow; to grow is to accept mortality."
Thomas Hardy
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"Change is the only constant in life."
Anne Brontë
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"Change is necessary for growth."
Anne Brontë
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"I have spent my life in vain attempts to overcome the conventions of my environment."
William Butler Yeats
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"The future is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
Emily Brontë
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"Every ending is a new beginning."
Emily Brontë
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"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."
George Bernard Shaw
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"The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, whilst all the rest go on with their old measurements."
George Bernard Shaw
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"One cannot eat the same bread twice, every moment has something of the new."
James Joyce
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"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change."
James Joyce
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"The world turns and keeps turning, bringing new gifts each day."
James Joyce
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"The past cannot be changed, but it can teach us how to shape the future."
Anne Brontë
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"We must be willing to change to truly grow."
Anne Brontë
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"Every ending is also a beginning, if we have the courage to see it."
Anne Brontë
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"The past is an anchor that prevents us from sailing forward into new waters."
Thomas Hardy
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"The past cannot be escaped; we can only learn to carry it differently."
Thomas Hardy
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"The young are often rash and hasty in their opinions, whilst age sometimes settles in them through mere habit."
George Eliot
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"The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power."
George Eliot
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"The great turning points of our lives often come from small, seemingly insignificant moments."
George Eliot
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"I am what circumstance has made me, yet I choose who I shall become."
Emily Brontë
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"Every ending carries within it the seed of a new beginning."
Emily Brontë