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Embrace the New: Quotes About Change

Change is necessary, and often unavoidable. And these quotes about change can inspire and motivate you to accept, and even embrace, life's inevitable transformations with courage and resilience.

March 21, 2024
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5 min

Begin Your Journey: Quotes About Change

Whether you’re facing a career shift, a relationship evolution, or simply the ebb and flow of life, change is a part of everyday life.

And oftentimes, it’s not the act of changing that will determine your success, but how you navigate it.

Will you fight change, clinging to beliefs or habits that no longer align with who you are, wasting your precious time and energy trying to stick with the familiar?

Or will you accept change gracefully, filled with confidence, resilience, and hope for the future?  

As with many other facets of life, your mindset when faced with change is everything.

Let these quotes about change remind you that this time of transition is not to be feared, but embraced as a catalyst for growth and transformation.

Thought-provoking quotes about change:

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1. “When you stop fighting the current, you'll flow to where you're meant to be.”

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2. “Seasons change, and so do we.”

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3. “Change is inevitable but personal growth is a choice.”

Bob Proctor

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4. “Whatever we do lays a seed in our deepest consciousness, and one day that seed will grow.”

Sakyong Mipham

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5. “Life moves forward. The old leaves wither, die and fall away, and the new growth extends forward into the light.”

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6. “Like a crab growing out of its shell, real growth requires you to shed what no longer fits: the people, beliefs, and habits that were holding you back.”

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7. “That's what kills a man: lack of change.”

Charles Bukowski

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8. “Your past is your memory, not your potential. You can and will grow from adverse circumstances.”

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9. “Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.”

Edgar Allan Poe

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10. “Be a little scared to take risks… but still, take risks.”

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11. “Change and growth can be tough. But nothing is as tough as staying stuck in the same place where you aren't meant to be.”

Lewis Howes

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12. “Change is the end result of all true learning.”

Leo Buscaglia

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13. “Make a choice. Change your thoughts = Change your world.”

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14. “Look forward to the future and look forward to the unknown. Nothing stays the same and people change. One day that hurt and pain will be a distant memory.”

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15. “The beautiful thing about life is that you can always grow, change and get better. You aren't defined by your past.”

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16. “Those who can't change their minds can't change anything.”

George Bernard Shaw

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17. “End the chapter, turn the page, close the book. Start a new story today.”

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18. “Just do it.”

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19. “Third time lucky.”

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20. “Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east.”

Rumi

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21. “Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.”

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22. “Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.”

Victor Hugo

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23. “Friendly reminder: You're allowed to be excited about the future. And if you're still holding on to the past, let it go.”

Lewis Howes

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24. “Hope lies in what action we take.”

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25. “Tough times make tough people.”

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26. “Sometimes there are things in life that aren't meant to stay. Sometimes change may not be what we want. Sometimes change is what we need.”

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27. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.”

Paulo Coelho

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28. “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”

Nathaniel Branden

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29. “Change is a natural part of progression, there's no need to shrink from it.”

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30. “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”

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31. “This is your weekly reminder that you have the power to change your life by the choices you make.”

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32. “Singlemindedness is all-powerful.”

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

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33. “You're in charge of your life; you get to decide exactly when and where you start over. ”

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34. “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.”

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35. “It was the hour of a profound human change, and excitement was generating on the air.”

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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36. “Adventure is worthwhile in itself.”

Amelia Earhart

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37. “The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”

Nathaniel Branden

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38. “Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy.”

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39. “In this very moment you hold the power to change someone else's life for the better. Go do it.”

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40. “If you want to change someone, start and end with yourself. You're all you've got control over. yes, other people can change. no, you can't change other people.”

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41. “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

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42. “The only movement should be forward. Looking back should only be used as a method of reflection.”

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43. “It's ok to make mistakes.”

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44. “We become what we habitually contemplate.”

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45. “You can change your course whenever you need to.”

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46. “Picture the end.”

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47. “It's ok to reinvent yourself as many times as it takes to live out your most authentic self.”

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48. “If you don't like the road you're walking, start paving another one.”

Dolly Parton

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49. “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”

Leo Tolstoy

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50. “When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills.”

Embrace the power of personal transformation and growth with quotes about change.

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