Life is a journey of constant change and growth. We are constantly evolving, learning, and adapting to the world around us. Whether we realize it or not, every experience we have shapes us into who we are today and who we will become in the future. Sometimes change can be scary or uncomfortable, but it is essential for personal growth and fulfillment. In this blog post, we have compiled a list of quotes about change and growth to inspire and motivate you on your own evolving journey. From famous philosophers to modern-day thought leaders, these quotes offer wisdom and guidance to help you embrace change and experience personal growth. So, whether you’re feeling stuck or just looking for some inspiration, read on to discover powerful words that will help you navigate life’s twists and turns.
Quotes About Change and Growth
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
Henri Bergson
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.
Wayne W. Dyer
The snake which cannot cast its skin has to die. As well the minds which are prevented from changing their opinions; they cease to be mind.
Friedrich Nietzsche
There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C.S. Lewis
If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.
Roy T. Bennett
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it and join the dance.
Alan Watts
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Moving doesn’t change who you are. It only changes the view outside your window.
Rachel Hollis
The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.
Rupert Murdoch
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.
John Maxwell
I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.
Raymond Lindquist
Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.
Hermann Hesse
One child, one teacher, one book and one pen can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai
I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.
Mother Teresa
To keep our faces toward change and behave like free spirits in the presence of fate is strength undefeatable.
Helen Keller
Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.
Hugh Prather
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.
Winston Churchill
In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.
Abraham Maslow
Our dilemma is that we hate change and love it at the same time; what we really want is for things to remain the same but get better.
Sydney J. Harris
Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.
John F. Kennedy
Change is inevitable. Change is constant.
Benjamin Disraeli
The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.
Steve Jobs
Sometimes it’s the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.
Keri Russell
Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.
Francis Bacon
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it without knowing what’s going to happen next.
Gilda Radner
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene.
A. C. Benson
What’s dangerous is not to evolve.
Jeff Bezos
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
Carl Jung
If you want to change the culture, you will have to start by changing the organization.
Mary Douglas
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson Mandela
Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed.
Irene Peter
There is nothing permanent except change.
Heraclitus
All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.
Ellen Glasgow
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves. We must die to one life before we can enter another.
Anatole France
The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.
Charles Kettering
Change before you have to.
Jack Welch
Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.
Victor Hugo
The more things change, the more they are the same.
Alphonse Karr
The moment of change is the only poem. Adrienne Rich
Adrienne Rich
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.
Leo Tolstoy
The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.
Barbara Kingsolver
Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.
Frank Herbert
Growth and comfort do not coexist.
Ginni Rometty
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
Charles Darwin
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
Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable and remove yourself from the unacceptable.
Denis Waitley
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
Confucius
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
William Glasser
Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
Bertolt Brecht
If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.
Lao Tzu
Progress is a nice word, but change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
Robert Kennedy
I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen Hawking
Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.
Nikos Kazantzakis
Ignorance is always afraid of change.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Change will never happen when people lack the ability and courage to see themselves for who they are.
Bryant H. McGill
Things do not change; we change.
Henry David Thoreau
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
Frederick Douglass
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson
It’s the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
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
When you blame others, you give up your power to change.
Robert Anthony
Change in all things is sweet.
Aristotle
To change what you get, you must change who you are.
Vernon Howard
Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.
Albert Einstein
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
Harriet Tubman
Change brings opportunity.
Nido Qubein
If you can’t fly, then run. If you can’t run, then walk. If you can’t walk, then crawl. But whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward.
Martin Luther King Jr
It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.
Roy T. Bennett
To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.
William James
Vulnerability is the birthplace of innovation, creativity and change.
Brene Brown
The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.
Nathaniel Branden
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
Virginia Woolf
Bending beats breaking.
Betty Greene
The world doesn’t change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.
Terry Hayes
All is flux, nothing stays still.
Plato
It doesn’t matter how strong your opinions are. If you don’t use your power for positive change, you are indeed part of the problem.
Coretta Scott King
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
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.
Stephen Chbosky
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
Albert Einstein
Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry Pratchett
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by discomforts.
Arnold Bennett
When in doubt, choose change.
Lily Leung
If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.
Katharine Hepburn
Parting Words
As we conclude this journey through these inspiring quotes about change and growth, we hope you’ve found wisdom and inspiration to help you embrace transformation and evolution on your unique path. Remember that change and growth are constant companions on the flâneur journey, and with every step forward, you become a more enlightened and enriched version of yourself.
We’d love to hear your thoughts on these quotes and how they’ve impacted your life. Did any of them resonate with you? Did they inspire you to make changes or take action?
Leave a comment below and share your insights with the flâneur community. Together, let’s keep pushing forward on our evolving journeys and embracing all that life has to offer.
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Originally Published: May 6, 2023
