Change Quotes

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

27059 quotes

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"Very little is needed to turn a life around. It requires only a change of perspective."
Marcus Aurelius
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"You will be melted down. Your past will be obliterated."
O'Brien
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"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
Pip
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"I am not what I was."
Pip
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"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
Pip
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"The wheel is come full circle"
The Narrator
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"The very air we breathe is changed by the times"
The Narrator
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"The wheel of fortune turns"
The Narrator
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"I felt as if I had been born anew."
Jane Eyre
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"It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion."
Elizabeth Bennet
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"I cannot live as I have been living. Something must change."
Pip
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"I am not what I once was, and I cannot be reconciled to myself as I am."
Pip
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"It is what you are that matters, not what you have been."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"Once you cross certain lines, you cannot return to who you were before"
Sydney Carton
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"The Sperm Whale of the present day is as much an altered and diminished apparition of the mighty monster as the Hunter or the poacher of the Middle Ages."
Ishmael
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"It was the night of the day when I was made a gentleman."
Pip
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"I became conscious of a change in the air around me."
Pip
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"That terrible morning when I left the forge, I was not at all happy."
Pip
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"The whale, as he swims, is not one and the same whale"
Ishmael
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"I am afraid that I cannot help you there. You would require being born again."
Lord Henry Wotton
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"I felt that I had grown a little in my feelings."
Pip
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"I am forever changed by what I have experienced."
Pip
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"What is past is past."
Dorian Gray
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"My temper I cannot change; but I can change what has offended you."
Mr. Darcy
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"I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape."
Pip
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"We are creatures of habit, and when the habit is broken, we suffer."
Pip
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"I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."
Mr. Darcy
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"The only sure thing is change itself"
The Narrator
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"I felt as though I had been living a caterpillar existence, and suddenly my chrysalis had broken and I had emerged as a butterfly."
Jane Eyre
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"I must not forget that I was not always what I now am"
Pip