33 Proven Quotes About Change That Will Revitalize Your Life

Change is a part of life. From crawling to walking to running, you go through so much change in your life that if look back to where you were even 1 year ago it’s amazing to see how much of a different person you are. On a daily basis you grow and learn so much that while these changes seem insignificant initially, overtime they end up changing the entire foundation to who you are. But generally this microscopic change isn’t the change that people refer to when the say “my life has changed”. They are usually referring to those large chunks of transformation you only go through a few times in your life and it is these large changes that people hesitate with and are afraid of.

Change is a part of life. From crawling to walking to running, you go through so much change in your life that if look back to where you were even 1 year ago it’s amazing to see how much of a different person you are. On a daily basis you grow and learn so much that while these changes seem insignificant initially, overtime they end up changing the entire foundation to who you are. But generally this microscopic change isn’t the change that people refer to when the say “my life has changed”. They are usually referring to those large chunks of transformation you only go through a few times in your life and it is these large changes that people hesitate with and are afraid of.

But I’m here to tell you that change is very manageable. As long as you get your mind into the right perspective and look at change in the right way you CAN overcome your fears and reservations.  So with said whether you just went through some big changes in your life or are expecting to soon; I feel these quotes should be very helpful in getting your mind to where it should be. These people have gone through what you are going through now and their wisdom and insight can be very helpful on your journey.

Quotes About Change:

1. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
2. Here’s to the crazy ones. The misfits. The rebels. The troublemakers. The round pegs in the square holes. The ones who see things differently. They’re not fond of rules. And they have no respect for the status quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them. About the only thing you can’t do is ignore them. Because they change things. They push the human race forward. And while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do. ― Apple Inc.
3. The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ― Albert Einstein
4. A year from now you will wish you had started today. — Karen Lamb
5. All great changes are preceded by chaos. – Deepak Chopra
6. He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery. – Harold Wilson
7. The reason why we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind the scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel. – Steven Furtick
8. It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Bob Proctor
9. Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
10. May the bridges I burn light the way. – Dylan McKay
11. It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. – Charles Darwin
12. If there is no struggle, there is no progress. – Frederick Douglass
13. Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality. – Nikos Kazantzakis
14. If people refuse to look at you in a new light and they can only see you for what you were, only see you for the mistakes you’ve made, if they don’t realize that you are not your mistakes, then they have to go. ― Steve Maraboli
15. Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. – C.S. Lewis
16. If you don’t like something change it; if you can’t change it, change the way you think about it. – Mary Engelbreit
17. I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. – Maya Angelou
18. In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks. – Warren Buffett
19. Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.  – Max McKeown
20. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. – Alan Watts
21. Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. ― Barack Obama
22. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. – Andy Warhol
23. 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
24. 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
25. The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones, which will give him no pain or trouble. – Henry Miller

26. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. – Confucius
27. If an egg is broken by outside force, life ends. If broken by inside force, life begins. Great things always begin from inside. – Jim Kwik
28. By changing nothing, nothing changes. – Tony Robbins
29. It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad. – C. S. Lewis
30. 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
31. When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide whether or not to accept our destiny. ― Paulo Coelho
32. A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. – Chinese Proverb
33. For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the courage to start all over again. ― Eric Roth