Change Quotes

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

27059 quotes

J
"The wheel is broken."
Jon Snow
D
"Kill the boy and let the man be born."
Davos Seaworth
D
"Fire consumes, but it also cleanses"
Davos Seaworth
H
"The Empire's decline cannot be prevented, only guided"
Hari Seldon
P
"The future is not fixed, but fluid"
Paul Atreides
P
"Tradition is the illusion of permanence"
Paul Atreides
P
"The wheel must keep turning."
Petyr Baelish
P
"I have crossed the threshold and I cannot return."
Paul Atreides
D
"Fire consumes, but it also transforms"
Davos Seaworth
S
"Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
B
"The past shapes us, but it need not define us"
Brienne of Tarth
H
"Progress requires sacrifice"
Hari Seldon
G
"I had come to Gethen as an emissary, but I was becoming something else."
Genly Ai
M
"A child's greatest strength is his ability to change."
Mazer Rackham
O
"The future was uncertain."
Orson Scott Card (Narrator)
P
"The future remains uncertain and so it should."
Paul Atreides
S
"The test of a reasonable world is its ability to change."
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
G
"The truest revolution happens within"
Genly Ai
D
"The wheel must be broken"
Daenerys Targaryen
V
"Nobody can see him the same way."
Valentine Wiggin
G
"I came to learn your ways, but I learned myself instead"
Genly Ai
G
"I came as an observer and became a participant"
Genly Ai
F
"Some people are on the way up, others on the way down"
Ford Prefect
S
"You cannot go back to unchanged places or people"
Spice-induced narrator/Paul's visions
E
"There is no refuge from change in this world"
Estraven
E
"I am the way I am because of what I've been through, not because of who I want to be."
Ender Wiggin
E
"To change the world, change yourself first"
Estraven
E
"I am no longer the boy they trained."
Ender Wiggin
E
"I have become the thing I most despised."
Ender Wiggin
M
"Today marks the first day of the second half of my life on Mars."
Mark Watney