Change Quotes

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

27059 quotes

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"I wish you were the same Pip I knew as a boy."
Joe Gargery
J
"I am better than I was last year; I am improving."
Jane Eyre
P
"I have been bent and broken, but I hope into a better shape."
Pip
P
"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in my life."
Pip
P
"The world was not then half so large and complicated to me."
Pip
P
"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me."
Pip
P
"I had become a man unworthy of my former companions."
Pip
M
"There is certainly at this time a great difference in your style of dancing."
Mr. Darcy
L
"The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
M
"The past is unchangeable; only the future can be shaped."
Monte Cristo
L
"Men are afraid of change."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
P
"The convict's return changed everything I thought I was"
Pip
L
"The essence of any change must lie in the fact that such a change must be inevitable"
Levin
L
"I cannot live as I have been living"
Levin
M
"I am not what I was, but neither am I what I shall be"
Monte Cristo
P
"That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in my life."
Pip
P
"I have learned to value what I once despised."
Pip
D
"A man may change his course, but not his character."
Don Quixote
L
"Change is inevitable and constant."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
L
"Change is the only constant in life"
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
E
"The human spirit is capable of extraordinary transformation"
Edmond Dantès
A
"What is this passion of yours for changing everything around you?"
Alexei Vronsky
L
"What we resist persists, and what we accept transforms."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
L
"People are afraid of change, yet it is the only way to grow."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
E
"I am perfectly resolved on one point: that if I do change my mind, I shall do it at a much slower pace than I changed it before."
Elizabeth Bennet
L
"Change is the only constant in life."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
R
"I felt as though I had become someone else entirely."
Raskolnikov
L
"The world does not change; we change."
Leo Tolstoy (Narrator)
L
"I have decided to throw off the old self completely."
Levin
D
"Fortune wheels around; none can remain in the same state forever."
Don Quixote