1. “Change, like healing, takes time.” ― Veronica Roth

2. “If I am not for myself, who will be for me? But if I am only for myself, what am I? And if not now, when? – Hillel

3. “Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky

4. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy

5. “Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” ― George Bernard Shaw

6. “I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.” ― Mother Teresa

8. “The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” ― Albert Einstein

9. “To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.” ― William James

11. “I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better” – Plutarch

12. “Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.” ― Mary Shelley

13. “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” ― Lao Tzu

14. “Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” – Steve Maraboli

15. “I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….” ― Erica Jong

16. “We are not trapped or locked up in these bones. No, no. We are free to change. And love changes us. And if we can love one another, we can break open the sky.” ― Walter Mosley

17. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.” ― Wayne W. Dyer

18. “Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

19. “You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.” ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

20. “And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” ― Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing

21. “Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” ― Eckhart Tolle

22. “Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.” ― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye

24. “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.” ― Roy T. Bennett

25. “Fashion changes, but style endures.” ― Coco Chanel

27. “You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” ― Philip Pullman

28. “Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. – John Kenneth Galbraith

30. “No matter who you are, no matter what you did, no matter where you’ve come from, you can always change, become a better version of yourself.” ― Madonna

31. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways. The point, however, is to change it.” – Karl Marx

32. “I find the best way to love someone is not to change them, but instead, help them reveal the greatest version of themselves.” ― Steve Maraboli

33. “All that you touch
You Change.
All that you Change
Changes you.
The only lasting truth
is Change.
God is Change.” ― Octavia E. Butler

35. “Anger, resentment and jealousy doesn’t change the heart of others– it only changes yours.” ― Shannon Alder

36. “If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.” — John A. Simone, Sr.

38. “When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can’t make them change if they don’t want to, just like when they do want to, you can’t stop them.” ― Andy Warhol

39. “No one can tell what goes on in between the person you were and the person you become. No one can chart that blue and lonely section of hell. There are no maps of the change. You just come out the other side. Or you don’t.” ― Stephen King, The Stand

41. “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” ― Winston S. Churchill

42. “Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape. ” ― William S. Burroughs

43. “When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.” ― Haruki Murakami

45. “I give you this to take with you: Nothing remains as it was. If you know this, you can begin again, with pure joy in the uprooting.” ― Judith Minty

46. “A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn.” ― Helen Keller

48. “Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.” ― Roy T. Bennett

49. “True life is lived when tiny changes occur.” ― Leo Tolstoy

50. “Change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ― Roy T. Bennett

51. “Change is the end result of all true learning.” ― Leo Buscaglia

52. “Our ability to adapt is amazing. Our ability to change isn’t quite as spectacular.” ― Lisa Lutz

53. “Changing is what people do when they have no options left.” ― Holly Black

55. “Nothing is lost . . . Everything is transformed.” ― Michael Ende

56. “The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.” ― Barbara Kingsolver

57. “If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.” ― Katherine Hepburn

59. “You tried to change didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake… You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that.” ― Warsan Shire

60. “Don’t knock the weather; nine-tenths of the people couldn’t start a conversation if it didn’t change once in a while.” — Kin Hubbard

62. “Nothing endures but change.” ― Heraclitus

63. “The past can teach us, nurture us, but it cannot sustain us. The essence of life is change, and we must move ever forward or the soul will wither and die.” ― Susanna Kearsley

65. “If you want to make enemies, try to change something.” – Woodrow Wilson

66. “The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.” – Ellen Glasgow

67. “People are very open-minded about new things, as long as they’re exactly like the old ones.” – Charles F. Kettering

69. “Folks, I don’t trust children. They’re here to replace us.” – Stephen Colbert

70. “No matter what people will tell you, words and ideas can change the world.” – Robin Williams

72. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.” – Socrates

73. “Act the way you’d like to be and soon you’ll be the way you’d like to act.” ― Bob Dylan

74. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.” ― Simone de Beauvoir

76. “And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.” ― Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse

77. “We first make our habits, then our habits make us.” ― John Dryden

78. “Words are where most change begins.” ― Brandon Sanderson

80. “What people have the capacity to choose, they have the ability to change.” ― Madeleine Albright

81. “If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” ― Anatole France

82. “People can cry much easier than they can change.” ― James Baldwin

83. “Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.” ― Seth Godin

84. “People don’t change, they just have momentary steps outside of their true character.” ― Chad Kultgen

85. “Every hundred feet the world changes.” ― Roberto Bolaño

86. “Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” ― Jacob M. Braude

87. “I wanted change and excitement and to shoot off in all directions myself, like the colored arrows from a Fourth of July rocket.” ― Sylvia Plath

88. “What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.” ― Abraham Maslow

89. “It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.” ― Samuel Beckett

90. “All is flux, nothing stays still.” ― Plato

91. “People don’t resist change. They resist being changed.” ― Peter Senge

92. “Sometimes you hit a point where you either change or self-destruct.” ― Sam Stevens

93. “Either way, change will come. It could be bloody, or it could be beautiful. It depends on us.” ― Arundhati Roy

94. “We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.” ― Dr. David Hawkins

95. “The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.” ― Aaron Lauritsen

96. “Bending beats breaking.” ― Betty Greene

97. “The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.” ― Terry Hayes

98. “Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor” ― Alexis Carrel

99. “Tides do what tides do–they turn.” ― Derek Landy

100. “The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey

101. “Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.” — Confucius