Change Quotes

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

27059 quotes

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"The greatest discovery of our age is that a person can change by changing his attitude."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The past shapes us, but need not define us."
Jean Valjean
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"We cannot change what we are, only what we do."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"It is hard to adapt to chaos, but it can be done."
Billy Pilgrim
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"Instability is the price of progress."
Mustapha Mond
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"I felt something change in that moment."
Chief Bromden
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"We are not moving toward perfection, but toward greater complexity"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Nothing would ever change as long as we remained alive."
Yossarian
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"I used to be like you."
Cheswick
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"We are the Combine's most successful product—men with all our edges worn off."
Chief Bromden
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"To live is to change, and to change is to mature."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Certain things they should stay the way they are"
Holden Caulfield
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"The thing is, it's really hard to leave when you don't want to."
Holden Caulfield
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"Every moment of our life we are entering into the new world."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"I tell ya I ain't used to livin' like this"
Candy
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"Become a new man, and begin again."
Jean Valjean
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"The force of life is in man's ability to change"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"I'm afraid it'll change. It'll be different when I come back."
Holden Caulfield
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"There was a time when I worried about these things, but not anymore."
Colonel Cathcart
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"Certain things they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone."
Holden Caulfield
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"We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"Everything changes and continues to be the same"
Marya Bolkonskaya
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"People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to look back anymore."
Billy Pilgrim
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"We cannot change what we are, only what we do."
Pierre Bezukhov
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"That's the thing I like least about having to leave somewhere."
Holden Caulfield
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"Do you know what I was? Before the war?"
Billy Pilgrim
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"Destruction and creation are the same thing."
Lee
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"He felt that something had broken in his soul"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"The human soul is infinite in its capacity for transformation"
Pierre Bezukhov
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"I'm tired of my life."
Guy Montag