Change Quotes

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

27059 quotes

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"Become yourself or die."
Edmond Dantès
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"What she wanted was to be transformed, not to transform herself."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"I have suffered; I have learned; I have changed."
Edmond Dantès
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"I am not what I was; I am what I have become."
Edmond Dantès
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"Let's be strange and unknown to one another from now on."
Daisy Buchanan
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"Change is the only constant in life"
Edmond Dantès
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"I am going to take a different path."
Raskolnikov
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"A person can change if they truly wish to."
Sonya
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"Jem seemed to have contracted a vague, disconsolate illness."
Scout Finch
J
"Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future."
Jean Valjean
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"The monotony of her surroundings soon became unbearable."
Gustave Flaubert (Narrator)
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"I felt then, as I do now, that the events of the summer had affected Jem profoundly."
Scout Finch
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"The world is harsh, and those who cannot adapt shall perish."
Monte Cristo
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"To change the course of history, one must first change oneself"
Prince Andrei Bolkonsky
A
"This time we ain't fighting the Yankees, we're fighting our own"
Atticus Finch
D
"So it has come to this."
Daisy Buchanan
D
"Youth is not responsible for the old world—let the old world look after itself."
Dmitri Karamazov
J
"Have you ever considered that perhaps you are the one who should change?"
Jean Valjean
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"If this thing hadn't happened I would never have gone in the way I have gone."
Mayella Ewell
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"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
M
"When you're not satisfied, you have a strong incentive to change things"
Mustapha Mond
B
"I can't change what I am, but I can change how I act."
Billy Bibbit
A
"The problem with Maycomb is, the people there are just now beginning to learn they've got to adopt policy, now."
Atticus Finch
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"I had moulted."
John the Savage
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"A man is born, but to become a man he must be remade."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"We are not our parents. We don't want to be."
Lenina Crowne
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"Permanence is the one thing we cannot afford."
Mustapha Mond
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"I grew six inches since I been here."
Chief Bromden
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"I walked away a different man."
Chief Bromden
C
"I walked out of that place a different person."
Chief Bromden