1. There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life.

- Theodore Rooosevelt

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

- Bob Proctor

3. Change the changeable, accept the unchangeable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.

- Denis Waitley

4. The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.

- Elbert Hubbard

5. Be the change that you wish to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

6. A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships are built.

- John A. Shedd

7. Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.

- Max McKeown

8. Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self-sacrifice, and a lot of patience.

- Robert Greene

9. He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

- Harold Wilson

10. Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.

- Margaret Mead

11. Anyone who isn’t embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn’t learning enough.

- Alain de Botton

12. Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

13. Few can accept happiness if it means change. We want the life we have now, only happier.

- Robert Brault

14. If change is constant, then learning must also be continual.

- Meir Liraz

15. There are two kinds of fools: those who can’t change their opinions and those who won’t.

- Josh Billings

16. You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be.

- Marianne Williamson

17. Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.

- Sir Richard Branson

18. Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

- Barak Obama

19. To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

- Winston Churchill

20. The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

- Charles Dubois

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

- Gail Sheehy

22. Change your thinking, change your life.

- Ernest Holmes

23. They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.

- Andy Warhol

24. You must welcome change as the rule, but not as your ruler.

- Denis Waitley

25. The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order.

- Alfred North Whitehead

26. In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

- Warren Buffett

27. The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

28. Don’t spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

- Coco Chanel

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

- Libba Bray

30. Dreams are the seeds of change. Nothing ever grows without a seed, and nothing ever changes without a dream.

- Debby Boone

31. You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.

- Jim Rohn

32. If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.

- Henry Ford

33. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.

- Roy T. Bennett

34. Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.

- Michael Jordan

35. Times and conditions change so rapidly that we must keep our aim constantly focused on the future.

- Walt Disney

36. If you want things in your life to change, you have to change things in your life.

- Kevin Trudeau

37. Things do not change; we change.

- Henry David Thoreau

38. I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.

- Mother Theresa

39. All great changes are preceded by chaos.

- Deepak Chopra

40. Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

- Stephen Hawking

41. If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.

- Wayne W. Dyer

42. Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.

- Billy Cox

43. We change the world not by what we say or do, but as a consequence of what we have become.

- Dr. David Hawkins

44. If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.

- John A. Simone, Sr.

45. Words are powerful; if you change your words, you can change your life.

- Joyce Meyer

46. 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.

- Hariet Tubman

47. Play to your strengths. If you aren’t great at something, do more of what you’re great at.

- Jason Lemkin

48. Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

- Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

49. To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

50. We can have no progress without change, whether it be basketball or anything else.

- John Wooden

51. Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.

- John C. Maxwell

52. Consider how hard it is to change yourself and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.

- Jacob M. Braude

53. Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.

- Stephen Chbosky

54. Rather than wishing for change, you first must be prepared to change.

- Catherine Pulsifer

55. I want to change things for the better, just like everybody else.

- Henry Rollins

56. You must be willing to give up what you are, to become what you want to be.

- Orrin Woodward

57. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

- Confucius

58. Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

59. You can live your dreams if you can embrace change. It’s by taking chances that you’ll learn how to be brave.

- Charles Darwin

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

- Carol Burnett

61. All things must change to something new, to something strange.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

62. Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.

- Adlai Stephenson

63. Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone.

- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in The Rye

64. The bamboo that bends is stronger than the oak that resists.

- Japanese Proverb

65. Loyalty to a petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

- Mark Twain

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

- Francis Bacon

67. Some people don’t like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

- Elon Musk

68. When you’re finished changing, you’re finished.

- Benjamin Franklin

69. 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.

- Madonna

70. The price of doing the same old thing is far higher than the price of change.

- Bill Clinton

71. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

- Oprah Winfrey

72. The art of life lies in a constant readjustment to our surroundings.

- Kakuzō Okakura, The Book of Tea

73. When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.

- Victor Frankl

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

- George Bernard Shaw

75. Opinions are made to be changed – or how is truth to be got at?

- Lord Byron

76. Only God who made us can touch us and change us and save us from ourselves.

- Rev. Billy Graham

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

- Aldous Huxley

78. Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

- Rev. Jesse Jackson

79. You’re only as young as the last time you changed your mind.

- Timothy Leary

80. Step out of the history that is holding you back. Step into the new story you are willing to create.

- Oprah Winfrey

81. The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

- William Arthur Ward

82. Change is the end result of all true learning.

- Leo Buscaglia

83. Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

- Arthur Shopenhauer

84. Most of the change we think we see in life is due to truths being in and out of favor.

- Robert Frost

85. Nothing is forever except change.

- Buddha

86. Courage is the power to let go of the familiar.

- Raymond Lindquist

87. Change almost never fails because it’s too early. It almost always fails because it’s too late.

- Seth Godin

88. Every day of our lives, we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

- Mignon McLaughlin

89. Resistance is never the agent of change. You have to embrace the actions that are going to get you closer to your goal.

- Ali Vincent

90. When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be. When I let go of what I have, I receive what I need.

- Lao Tzu

91. Without change, something sleeps inside us, and seldom awakens. The sleeper must awaken.

- Frank Herbert

92. The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

- Socrates

93. I’m adaptable.

- Anne Hathaway, The Dark Knight Rises

94. A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

- Winston Churchill

95. The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything or nothing.

- Nancy Astor

96. We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change.

- Sheryl Sandberg

97. You’re always you, and that don’t change, and you’re always changing, and there’s nothing you can do about it.

- Neil Gaiman

98. I’m not interested in preserving the status quo; I want to overthrow it.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

99. Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

- Marilyn Monroe

100. In any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.

- Abraham Maslow

101. 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

102. People do not change, they are merely revealed.

- Anne Enright

103. Even if you cannot change all the people around you, you can change the people you choose to be around.

- Roy T. Bennett

104. We are all butterflies. Earth is our chrysalis.

- LeeAnn Taylor

105. What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

106. One can remain alive if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.

- Edith Wharton

107. The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.

- Nathaniel Branden

108. 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

109. The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.

- C. Joybell C.

110. Things alter for the worse spontaneously, if they be not altered for the better designedly.

- Francis Bacon

111. All change is not growth, as all movement is not forward.

- Ellen Glasgow

112. Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

- James Baldwin

113. A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

- Spanish Proverb

114. For changes to be of any true value, they’ve got to be lasting and consistent.

- Tony Robbins

115. 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

116. No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

117. 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, Life, the Truth, and Being Free

118. Desperation is the raw material of drastic change. Only those who can leave behind everything they have ever believed in can hope to escape.

- William S. Burroughs

119. Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in.

- Isaac Asimov

120. One must change one’s tactics every ten years if one wishes to maintain one’s superiority.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

121. Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

122. If you don’t change your beliefs, your life will be like this forever. Is that good news?

- W. Sommerset Maugham

123. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

- Rumi

124. Both tears and sweat are salty, but they render a different result. Tears will get you sympathy; sweat will get you change.

- Rev. Jesse Jackson

125. When patterns are broken, new worlds emerge.

- Tuli Kupferberg

126. If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito in the room.

- Anita Roddick

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

- Andre Gide

128. Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.

- Mandy Hale

129. The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

- Allan Wilson Watts

130. Open your arms to change, but don’t let go of your values.

- Dalai Lama

131. By changing nothing, nothing changes.

- Tony Robbins

132. Stop being afraid of what could go wrong, and start being excited about what could go right.

- Tony Robbins

133. If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.

- Roy T. Bennett

134. If you want to change the world, pick up your pen and write.

- Martin Luther

135. There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.

- C.S. Lewis

136. Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

- Owen Feltham

137. Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.

- Ovid

138. Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.

- John Wooden

139. If you want to change attitudes, start with a change in behavior.

- Katherine Hepburn

140. The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.

- Peter Drucker

141. Things don’t have to change the world to be important.

- Steve Jobs

142. We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.

- Carl Jung

143. Continuity gives us roots; change gives us branches, letting us stretch and grow and reach new heights.

- Pauline R. Kezer

144. I cannot say whether things will get better if we change; what I can say is that they must change if they are to get better.

- Georg Lichtenberg

145. In a progressive country change is constant; change is inevitable.

- Benjamin Disraeli

146. Dynamism is a function of change.

- Hillary Clinton

147. 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

148. There is nothing permanent except change.

- Heraclitus

149. A year from now you will wish you had started today.

- Karen Lamb

150. You cannot change anyone, but you can be the reason someone changes.

- Roy T. Bennett

151. Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.

- Khalil Gibran

152. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.

- Steve Backley

153. God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

154. It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to embrace the new. But there is no real security in what is no longer meaningful.

- Alan Cohen

155. The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.

- Albert Einstein

156. The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.

- Vernon Howard

157. If you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better.

- Philip Vang

158. It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

- Charles Darwin

159. Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

- Nolan Ryan

160. Nothing is absolute. Everything changes, everything moves, everything revolves, everything flies and goes away.

- Frida Kahlo

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

- Mahatma Gandhi

162. Change alone is unchanging.

- Heraclitus

163. Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.

- Hermann Hesse

164. Change, like sunshine, can be a friend or a foe, a blessing or a curse, a dawn or a dusk.

- William Arthur Ward

165. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

166. 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

167. You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.

- Buckminster Fuller

168. To change one’s life; Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly. No exceptions.

- William James

169. Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes.

- Roy T. Bennett

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

- Arnold Bennett

171. Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots.

- Victor Hugo