“Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.”
Richard Hooker
GrowthPatience
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.
“Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.”
Francis Bacon
ImprovementAction
“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”
Edmund Burke
NatureAcceptance
“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
LifePreparation
“People wish to be settled; only as far as they are unsettled is there any hope for them.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
GrowthComfort Zone
“Our life is an apprenticeship to the truth that around every circle another can be drawn.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
GrowthPotential
“A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Open MindIndependent Thinking
“Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
Walt Whitman
SelfGrowth
“Ring out the old, ring in the new, ring, happy bells, across the snow.”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
New YearNew Beginnings
“If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
SeasonsHope
“Where are the songs of Spring? Ay, where are they? Think not of them, thou hast thy music too.”
John Keats
SeasonsAcceptance
“The things which I have seen I now can see no more.”
William Wordsworth
LossGrowing Up
“The man who never alters his opinion is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.”
William Blake
Open MindStagnation
“To live is to change, and to be perfect is to have changed often.”
John Henry Newman
GrowthLife
“I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me.”
Charles Dickens
TransformationSecond Chances
“I am as light as a feather, I am as happy as an angel, I am as merry as a school-boy.”
Charles Dickens
TransformationJoy
“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves.”
Anatole France
Letting GoNostalgia
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”
Victor Hugo
PrinciplesGrowth
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
ChangeEternity
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy
Self-ImprovementResponsibility
“One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.”
Walter Bagehot
IdeasResistance
“Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.”
Kahlil Gibran
PainGrowth
“Dripping water hollows out stone.”
Ovid
Gradual ChangePersistence
“It is a bad plan that admits of no modification.”
Publilius Syrus
FlexibilityPlans
“All things must change to something new, to something strange.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
ChangeTransformation