45 Quotes About Change for the Better

Making changes in your life requires a conscience effort to be made. These quotes about changing for the better remind you to always strive forward and never look to fall back.

“A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar.”

“A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.”

“Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.”

“All great changes are preceded by chaos.”

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time”

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”

“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”

“Don’t wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don’t wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don’t wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom.”

“Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy creating.”

“Each person’s task in life is to become an increasingly better person.”

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

“Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward.”

“He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.”

“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”

“If we change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.”

“If you wish to be happy, think not of what is to come nor of that which you have no control over but rather of the now and of that which you are able to change.”

“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.”

“It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.”

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.”

“Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.”

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.”

“Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again.”

“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.”

“Nothing happens until the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change”

“One cause of misery is the inability to change.”

“Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.”

“Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves.”

“People don’t resist change. They resist being changed. ”

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.”

“Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.”

“Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.”

“The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.”

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

“To change the name and not the letter, is a change for the worst, and not for the better.”

“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”

“Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up”

“We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance.”

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.”

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”

“What I like most about change is that it’s a synonym for hope . If you are taking a risk, what you are really saying is, I believe in tomorrow and I will be part of it.”

“When in doubt, choose change.”

“Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.”

Changing your mindset is just one part of the formula for being successful.