Change Quotes

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

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"To grow is to outgrow your former self."
Priest, Graham
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"To be human is to be a work in progress."
Priest, Graham
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"What we call progress is often a rearrangement of the furniture."
Priest, Graham
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"Change is the only constant that gives us hope."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Change requires a robust metaphysical framework to be properly understood."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Change is the only constant we resist most fiercely."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"Every moment is an opportunity to choose differently."
Shackel, Nicholas
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"The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now."
Smith, Barry
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"The only thing constant in life is change."
Smith, Barry
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"The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new."
Smith, Barry
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"Change is not something that happens to us; it is something we must actively choose."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Change is not an event; it is a direction we choose to walk."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Change comes through action and organization."
Chomsky, Noam
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"We are all products of our time, but we need not be prisoners of it."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The world will not be saved by those who profit from it."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Change is the only constant in the universe."
Wittgenstein, Richard
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"Language evolves as thought evolves."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Language shapes thought as much as thought shapes language."
Katz, Jerrold
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"Words are the seeds of change."
Montague, Richard
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"The problem of change is as old as philosophy and no closer to resolution."
Schaffer, Jonathan
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"Change is the only constant that frightens the unchanging."
Smith, Barry
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"Change is the serpent that sheds old skin."
Smith, Barry
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"Change comes from organizing and collective action."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Real change comes from below, not from elites."
Chomsky, Noam
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"Real progress comes from social movements, not elites."
Chomsky, Noam
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"The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Growth requires discomfort, and transformation requires courage."
Rosen, Gideon
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"Don't let yesterday take up too much of today."
Perry, John
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"Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change."
Perry, John
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"The only predictable thing about life is its unpredictability."
Perry, John