“Loss is nothing else than change. But the universal nature delights in change.”
Marcus Aurelius
LossNature
Change Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · CHANGE
Change Quotes
Read 200 of the best change quotes about embracing change, growth, new beginnings and letting go, from Heraclitus, Marcus Aurelius, Shakespeare and more.
“Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place.”
Marcus Aurelius
TimeFlow
“The universe is transformation: life is opinion.”
Marcus Aurelius
TransformationPerspective
“If you wish to improve, be content to appear foolish and stupid.”
Epictetus
GrowthHumility
“Cold things grow warm; warm grows cold; wet grows dry; parched grows moist.”
Heraclitus
NatureBalance
“Even the posset separates if it is not stirred.”
Heraclitus
MovementStagnation
“The tree which fills the arms grew from the tiniest sprout; the tower of nine storeys rose from a small heap of earth.”
Lao Tzu
Small BeginningsGrowth
“The softest thing in the world dashes against and overcomes the hardest.”
Lao Tzu
Gentle ChangeStrength
“When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.”
Confucius
Self-ImprovementCourage
“Let a wise man blow off the impurities of his self, as a smith blows off the impurities of silver, one by one, little by little, and from time to time.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
Self-ImprovementPatience
“As when one layeth his worn-out robes away, and, taking new ones, sayeth, 'These will I wear to-day!' So putteth by the spirit lightly its garb of flesh.”
Bhagavad Gita
RenewalSpirituality
“Be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind.”
The Bible (Romans 12:2)
TransformationMindset
“Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.”
The Bible (Isaiah 43:18)
Letting GoMoving Forward
“A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you.”
The Bible (Ezekiel 36:26)
RenewalFaith
“When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
The Bible (1 Corinthians 13:11)
Growing UpMaturity
“His compassions fail not. They are new every morning.”
The Bible (Lamentations 3:22-23)
New BeginningsHope
“We all are changed into the same image from glory to glory.”
The Bible (2 Corinthians 3:18)
TransformationFaith
“Instead of the thorn shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the brier shall come up the myrtle tree.”
The Bible (Isaiah 55:13)
RenewalHope
“For, lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth.”
The Bible (Song of Solomon 2:11-12)
SeasonsNew Beginnings
“The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 1:5)
CyclesNature
“The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together.”
William Shakespeare
LifeBalance
“When I have seen such interchange of state, or state itself confounded to decay.”
William Shakespeare
ImpermanenceTime
“Thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.”
William Shakespeare
TimeFate
“The fashion wears out more apparel than the man.”
William Shakespeare
TrendsFunny
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
Niccolò Machiavelli
LeadershipInnovation