“Time is a child playing draughts; the kingly power is a child's.”
Heraclitus
TimeChance
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.
“The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life.”
Plato
EducationDirection
“A man is called the same, and yet in the short interval which elapses between youth and age, he is undergoing a perpetual process of loss and reparation.”
Plato
GrowthIdentity
“Men become builders by building and lyre-players by playing the lyre.”
Aristotle
HabitsPractice
“I feel, my dear Lucilius, that I am being not only reformed, but transformed.”
Seneca
TransformationGrowth
“Some things are hurrying into existence, and others are hurrying out of it.”
Marcus Aurelius
ImpermanenceLife
“Acquire the contemplative way of seeing how all things change into one another.”
Marcus Aurelius
PerspectiveMindfulness
“Time is generally the best doctor.”
Ovid
HealingTime
“He has half the deed done who has made a beginning.”
Horace
BeginningsAction
“Difficulty and ease produce the one the idea of the other.”
Lao Tzu
BalancePerspective
“Now I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.”
Chuang Tzu
TransformationIdentity
“Well-makers lead the water; fletchers bend the arrow; carpenters bend a log of wood; wise people fashion themselves.”
Buddha (Dhammapada)
Self-ImprovementWisdom
“Put off the old man, which is corrupt; and be renewed in the spirit of your mind.”
The Bible (Ephesians 4:22-23)
RenewalTransformation
“Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow.”
The Bible (Isaiah 1:18)
Second ChancesForgiveness
“Which indeed is the least of all seeds: but when it is grown, it is the greatest among herbs.”
The Bible (Matthew 13:32)
Small BeginningsGrowth
“In the morning it flourisheth, and groweth up; in the evening it is cut down, and withereth.”
The Bible (Psalm 90:6)
ImpermanenceLife
“A time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak.”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 3:7)
SeasonsWisdom
“Ye must be born again.”
The Bible (John 3:7)
TransformationFaith
“For who hath despised the day of small things?”
The Bible (Zechariah 4:10)
Small BeginningsPatience
“Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare.”
The Bible (Isaiah 42:9)
New BeginningsFaith
“For ye have not passed this way heretofore.”
The Bible (Joshua 3:4)
New PathsUncertainty
“While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.”
The Bible (Genesis 8:22)
SeasonsCycles
“Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these?”
The Bible (Ecclesiastes 7:10)
NostalgiaWisdom
“Men are April when they woo, December when they wed.”
William Shakespeare
LoveFunny
“What's gone and what's past help should be past grief.”
William Shakespeare
Letting GoAcceptance