Change Quotes
Nothing stays the same. These quotes explore transformation, growth, and the courage to start over.
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"Become yourself or die."Edmond Dantès
"What she wanted was to be transformed, not to transform herself."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"I have suffered; I have learned; I have changed."Edmond Dantès
"I am not what I was; I am what I have become."Edmond Dantès
"Let's be strange and unknown to one another from now on."Daisy Buchanan
"Change is the only constant in life"Edmond Dantès
"I am going to take a different path."Raskolnikov
"A person can change if they truly wish to."Sonya
"Jem seemed to have contracted a vague, disconsolate illness."Scout Finch
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future."Jean Valjean
"The monotony of her surroundings soon became unbearable."Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
"I felt then, as I do now, that the events of the summer had affected Jem profoundly."Scout Finch
"The world is harsh, and those who cannot adapt shall perish."Monte Cristo
"To change the course of history, one must first change oneself"Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
"This time we ain't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our own"Atticus Finch
"So it has come to this."Daisy Buchanan
"Youth is not responsible for the old world—let the old world look after itself."Dmitri Karamazov
"Have you ever considered that perhaps you are the one who should change?"Jean Valjean
"If this thing hadn't happened I would never have gone in the way I have gone."Mayella Ewell
"As I made my way home, I thought Jem and I would get grown but there wasn't much else left for us to learn."Scout Finch
"When you're not satisfied, you have a strong incentive to change things"Mustapha Mond
"I can't change what I am, but I can change how I act."Billy Bibbit
"The problem with Maycomb is, the people there are just now beginning to learn they've got to adopt policy, now."Atticus Finch
"I had moulted."John the Savage
"A man is born, but to become a man he must be remade."Pierre Bezukhov
"We are not our parents. We don't want to be."Lenina Crowne
"Permanence is the one thing we cannot afford."Mustapha Mond
"I grew six inches since I been here."Chief Bromden
"I walked away a different man."Chief Bromden
"I walked out of that place a different person."Chief Bromden