Change Quotes

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

27059 quotes

"Death is the only thing that ever changes anything."
Gustave Flaubert
"The only certainty is change."
Gustave Flaubert
G
"Sorrow comes in great waves, but it rolls over us, and though it goes, it leaves us on the shore, and different—torn into new shapes."
George Eliot
G
"The capacity for moral growth is the only thing that justifies existence."
George Eliot
G
"Men who have changed the world have always begun by changing themselves."
George Eliot
C
"Sorrow and trouble followed close to the heels of happiness"
Charles Dickens
C
"The past cannot be changed; only the future can be written"
Charles Dickens
"We are living in a period of the most radical transformation."
Émile Zola
"To change the world, one must first change oneself."
Émile Zola
A
"To die is not to go away; it is to change."
Alexandre Dumas
A
"We are the product of our past, but we need not be prisoners of it."
Alexandre Dumas
H
"Constancy is a phenomenon unknown to Nature."
Honoré de Balzac
H
"The past cannot bind us if we are willing to move forward."
Honoré de Balzac
V
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo
V
"One cannot tear out any single page of his life, but he can throw the whole book in the fire."
Victor Hugo
"Change is not progress unless it is truly progress."
Gustave Flaubert
"In every age, the instrument of change is the pen and the voice of reason."
Émile Zola
A
"It is often the small steps, not the giant leaps, that bring about real change."
Alexandre Dumas
A
"Change is the only constant in the universe."
Alexandre Dumas
"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."
Mary Shelley
"How changed my prospects were in a single night!"
Mary Shelley
C
"Progress demands innovation and courage."
Charlotte Brontë
C
"Change is the only constant in life."
Charlotte Brontë
C
"Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
Charles Dickens
C
"The various pursuits of life have divided us into a thousand different creatures."
Charles Dickens
C
"Every moment holds the possibility of change."
Charles Dickens
"One must accept the world as it is, but strive always to make it better."
Émile Zola
H
"Every fortune has within it the seeds of its own destruction."
Honoré de Balzac
H
"The greatest discovery of our generation is that a person can alter his life by altering his mind."
Honoré de Balzac
V
"An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come."
Victor Hugo