The 50 best quotes for change in life

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You are looking for Shift Quotes and sayings about change and transformation? Then you've come to the right place. I've combed through my collection and put together my 50 favorite quotes as a result. Whether you're in the process of changing your life and need some courage and hope, or you're simply looking for inspiring words, you'll find them in this article.

And if you also have a favorite quote about change, change and change, then write a comment and share it with us. And now have fun with the sayings and change quotes for dealing with change in your life. 

Change Quotes 1 - 10

1) „If you want to build a ship, don't drum up men to procure wood, assign tasks and divide up the work, but teach them to yearn for the vast, endless sea.“ - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

2) Two paths presented themselves to me in the forest and I took the one that was less traveled - and that changed my life“ - Walt Whitman

3) „Be the change you want to see in this world“ - Mahatma Ghandi

4) „You can take everything from a person. Everything except the last human freedom: the freedom to choose your own attitude and your own path, no matter how hard the external circumstances may be“ - Viktor Frankl

5) „Change does not happen by waiting for other people or another time. We are the ones we have been waiting for. We are the change we long for“ - Barack Obama

6) „Nothing is as constant as change“ - Heraclitus

7) „If you don't want to change anything, you will lose what you want to preserve“ - Gustav Heinemann

8) „People always say that time changes things. But you actually have to change them yourself“ - Andy Warhol

9) „There will come a time when you think everything is over. This will be the beginning.“ Louis L'Amour

10) „Everyone wants to change the world, but no one wants to change themselves“ - Leo Tolstoy

Change Quotes 11 - 20

11) „When the winds of change blow, some build walls and others build windmills.“ - Chinese proverb

12) „For the last 33 years, I've looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: if today was the last day of my life, would I want to do what I'm going to do today? And whenever the answer was „no“ for too many days, I knew I had to change something.“ - Steve Jobs

13) „Do not go where the path may lead, but go where there is no path and leave a trail.“ - Jean Paul

14) „Money and success don't change people. They only reinforce what is already there.“ - Will Smith

15) „Of course, I can't say whether things will be better if they are different. But I can say one thing: it has to be different if it is to be good“ - Georg Lichtenberg

16) „The purest form of madness is to leave everything as it is and at the same time hope that something will change“ - Albert Einstein

17) „Work like a slave. Lead like a king. Create like a god“ - Constantin Brancusi

18) „He who always does what he can already do, always remains what he already is“ - Henry Ford

19) „Happiness comes to those who expect it. They just have to keep the doors open“ - Thomas Mann

20) „You can build something beautiful even from stones that are put in your way“ - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Change Quotes 21 - 30

21) „God grant me the serenity to accept things that I cannot change, the courage to change things that I can, and the wisdom to distinguish one from the other“ - Reinhold Niebuhr

22) „Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change“ - Stephen Hawking

23) „Don't go where the puck is. Go where the puck will be“ - Wayne Gretzky

24) „Change is necessary like the renewal of the leaves in spring“ - Vincent van Gogh

25) „Paths are created by walking them“ - Franz Kafka

26) „Most people would prefer the security of misery to the misery of insecurity“ - Virginia Satir

27) „Change is the law of life. Those who look only to the past or the present will miss the future“ - John F. Kennedy

28) „Everything will be fine in the end. If it doesn't turn out well, it's not the end“ - Oscar Wilde

29) „You never create change by fighting what already exists. To change something, you build new models that make the old obsolete“ - Buckminster Fuller

30) „We can't change the wind. But we can set the sails correctly“ - Aristotle

Change Quotations 31 - 40

31) „All that matters in life is the right intention“ - Andrea Bocelli

32) „Start with what is necessary. Then do what is possible. And suddenly you are doing the impossible“ - Francis of Assisi

33) „One day we will have to officially admit that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams“ - Salvador Dali

34) „Experience is not what happens to you. Experience is what you make of what happens to you“ - Aldous Huxley

35) „Everyone with a new idea is a crank until the idea is successful“ - Mark Twain

36) „People always want everything to change, and at the same time they want everything to stay the same“ - Paulo Coelho

37) „There is a space between stimulus and response. In this space, we have the freedom and the power to choose our reaction. In our reaction lies our growth and our freedom“ - Viktor Frankl

38) „The head is round so that thinking can change direction“ - Francis Picabia

39) „No matter what other people tell you, words and ideas can change the world“ - Robin Williams

40) „Growth is painful. Change is painful. But nothing is as painful as being stuck in a place where you don't belong“ - Mandy Hale

Change Quotes 41 - 50

41) „Our greatest glory is not to never fall, but to get up again every time“ - Nelson Mandela

42) „If you want to be happy all the time, you have to change often“ - Confucius

43) „You have to pray for miracles, but you have to work for change“ - Thomas Aquinas

44) „What lies before us and what lies behind us are insignificant things compared to what lies within us“ - Ralph Waldo Emerson

45) „One waits for the times to change. The other tackles it vigorously and acts“ - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

46) „Change only benefits those who are prepared for it“ - Louis Pasteur

47) „And there is a magic in every beginning that protects us and helps us to live“ - Hermann Hesse

48) „Courage is the strength to let go of the familiar“ Raymond Lindquist

49) „Change before you are forced to change“ - Jack Welch

50) „Don't be afraid to give up the good to achieve the great“ - John D. Rockefeller

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Changes in life

I very much hope that the change quotes and sayings were valuable to you. May they inspire you and provide you with courage, hope and strength for current and future changes in your life. And don't forget to leave me your favorite quote as a comment so that we can grow the change quotes collection together. I look forward to your message.

Your Ilja Grzeskowitz

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