Change Quotes

Failure is a bend in the road, not the end of the road. Learn from failure and keep moving forward.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Every woman that finally figured out her worth, has picked up her suitcases of pride and boarded a flight to freedom, which landed in the valley of change.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Don't confuse poor decision-making with destiny. Own your mistakes. It’s ok, we all make them. Learn from them so they can empower you!

~ Steve Maraboli

It doesn't matter what you did or where you were...it matters where you are and what you're doing. Get out there! Sing the song in your heart and NEVER let anyone shut you up!!

~ Steve Maraboli

Changing your outside world cannot make you happy if you are an unhappy person. The real personal change can only happen from the inside out. If you firstly create the change within yourself, you can turn your life around.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Let today be the day you stop being haunted by the ghost of yesterday. Holding a grudge & harboring anger/resentment is poison to the soul. Get even with people...but not those who have hurt us, forget them, instead get even with those who have helped us.

~ Steve Maraboli

The beautiful journey of today can only begin when we learn to let go of yesterday.

~ Steve Maraboli

Change may not always bring growth, but there is no growth without change.

~ Roy T. Bennett

The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

People who lack the clarity, courage, or determination to follow their own dreams will often find ways to discourage yours. When you change for the better, the people around you will be inspired to change also....but only after doing their best to make you stop. Live your truth and don't EVER stop.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.

~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

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

Change course, but don’t give up.

~ Roy T. Bennett

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled ‘This could change your life’.

~ Helen Exley

I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today? And whenever the answer has been No for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

~ Steve Jobs

Changing is what people do when they have no options left.

~ Holly Black

How would your life be different if…You stopped worrying about things you can’t control and started focusing on the things you can? Let today be the day…You free yourself from fruitless worry, seize the day and take effective action on things you can change.

~ Steve Maraboli

A bend in the road is not the end of the road…Unless you fail to make the turn.

~ Helen Keller

Who would have guessed that four minutes could change everything?

~ Jennifer E. Smith

I've come to believe that in everyone's life, there's one undeniable moment of change, a set of circumstances that suddenly alters everything.

~ Nicholas Sparks

Real change is difficult at the beginning. Without the familiar to rely upon, you may not in as much command as you had once been. When things are not going your way, you will start doubting yourself. Stay positive, keep the faith, and keep moving forward – your breakthrough may be just around the corner.

~ Roy T. Bennett

And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of treesand changing leaves.

~ Virginia Woolf

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

The first step to the knowledge of the wonder and mystery of life is the recognition of the monstrous nature of the earthly human realm as well as its glory, the realization that this is just how it is and that it cannot and will not be changed. Those who think they know how the universe could have been had they created it, without pain, without sorrow, without time, without death, are unfit for illumination.

~ Joseph Campbell

It's much easier to not know things sometimes. Things change and friends leave. And life doesn't stop for anybody.

~ Stephen Chbosky

No matter what your history has been, your destiny is what you create today. What are you going to create?

~ Steve Maraboli

I am a fashion person, and fashion is not only about clothes -- it's about all kinds of change

~ Karl Lagerfeld

I had always had a little problem looking out for myself in love. I was afraid people would leave me. So I sort of clung and did everything possible to keep someone around. I didn't have a hard talk with myself about who I was keeping around. Doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out. I clung to people like human life preservers. I thought i'd die if someone left me. Its ironic because now I'm the one who's leaving.

~ Deb Caletti

Real change is difficult at the beginning, but gorgeous at the end. Change begins the moment you get the courage and step outside your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

~ Roy T. Bennett

If you want to be a new man you have to stay in new places, and do new things, with people who never knew you before. If you go back to the same old ways, what else can you be but the same old person?

~ Joe Abercrombie

How would your life be different if…You didn’t allow yourself to be defined by your past? Let today be the day…You stop letting your history interfere with your destiny and awaken to the opportunity to release your greatest self.

~ Steve Maraboli

Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.

~ Steve Maraboli

Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world, any species unable to adapt is also doomed.

~ Jean M. Auel

Simplify your life. You don't grow spiritual, you shrink spiritual.

~ Steve Maraboli

I look at the Augusteum,and I think that perhaps my life has not actually been so chaotic, after all. It is merely this world that is chaotic, bringing changes to us all that nobody could have anticipated. The Augusteum warns me to not to get attached to any obsolete ideas about who I am, what I represent, whom I belong to, or what function I may once have intended to serve. Yesterday I might have been a glorious monument to somebody, true enough--but tomorrow I could be a fireworks depository. Even in the Eternal City, says the silent Augusteum, one must always be prepared for riotous and endless waves of transformation.

~ Elizabeth Gilbert

You couldn't erase the past. You couldn't even change it. But sometimes life offered you the opportunity to put it right.

~ Ann Brashares

Life moves very fast. It rushes from Heaven to Hell in a matter of seconds.

~ Paulo Coelho

Your greatest self has been waiting your whole life, don't make it wait any longer.

~ Steve Maraboli

The power to change your life lies in the simplest of steps.

~ Steve Maraboli

I wanted the past to go away, I wanted to leave it, like another country; I wanted my life to close, and open like a hinge, like a wing, like the part of the song where it falls down over the rocks: an explosion, a discovery; I wanted to hurry into the work of my life; I wanted to know,whoever I was, I wasalive for a little while.

~ Mary Oliver