“Ripeness is all.”
William Shakespeare
TimingMaturity
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 hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, wherein he puts alms for oblivion.”
William Shakespeare
TimeForgetting
“What man that sees the ever-whirling wheel of Change, the which all mortal things doth sway.”
Edmund Spenser
ChangeFate
“Change is the nursery of music, joy, life and eternity.”
John Donne
ChangeJoy
“Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recover'd greenness?”
George Herbert
RenewalHope
“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
Alexander Pope
BalanceInnovation
“Variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavour.”
William Cowper
VarietyLife
“And so long as you haven't experienced this: to die and so to grow, you are only a troubled guest on the dark earth.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
GrowthTransformation
“She dwells with Beauty - Beauty that must die; and Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips bidding adieu.”
John Keats
ImpermanenceBeauty
“Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?”
John Keats
PainGrowth
“To hope till Hope creates from its own wreck the thing it contemplates.”
Percy Bysshe Shelley
HopeRebuilding
“Nothing so difficult as a beginning.”
Lord Byron
BeginningsCourage
“I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love.”
Walt Whitman
CyclesNature
“Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.”
Mark Twain
HabitsPatience
“I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle.”
Jane Austen
Self-AwarenessGrowth
“I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.”
Charles Dickens
GrowthHealing
“The strongest of all warriors are these two - Time and Patience.”
Leo Tolstoy
PatienceTime
“Let us cultivate our garden.”
Voltaire
ActionSimplicity
“Example is the best precept.”
Aesop
LeadershipExample
“It is not ease, but effort - not facility, but difficulty, that makes men.”
Samuel Smiles
StruggleGrowth
“In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.”
Benjamin Franklin
CertaintyFunny
“We have it in our power to begin the world over again.”
Thomas Paine
New BeginningsFreedom
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”
Frederick Douglass
StruggleProgress
“All changed, changed utterly: a terrible beauty is born.”
W. B. Yeats
TransformationHistory
“I am an acme of things accomplish'd, and I an encloser of things to be.”
Walt Whitman
GrowthFuture