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Quotes about change, growth and new chapters. This hand-picked collection brings together 30 of the finest change quotes ever written — from Winston Churchill, Maya Angelou, Turkish Proverb and other great voices. Tap Copy on any quote to save or share it.

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

— Winston Churchill

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

— Maya Angelou

No matter how far you have gone on the wrong road, turn back.

— Turkish Proverb

Feelings are the weather of the soul; they change, and so do we.

One of the most difficult things is not to change society — but to change yourself.

— Nelson Mandela

Change your thoughts and you change your world.

— Norman Vincent Peale

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

— Albert Einstein

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

— Rumi

I can't go back to yesterday — because I was a different person then.

— Lewis Carroll

Try not to resist the changes that come your way.

— Rumi

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

— Confucius

Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives.

— Dalai Lama

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

— Mahatma Gandhi

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

— Albert Einstein

Spring: a lovely reminder of how beautiful change can truly be.

A season of loneliness and isolation is often the season when a caterpillar gets its wings.

When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what the storm is all about.

— Haruki Murakami

Prayer does not change God; it changes the one who prays.

— Søren Kierkegaard

Acceptance is the road to all change.

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

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

— Socrates

Everything flows and nothing abides.

— Heraclitus

The only sure thing about luck is that it will change.

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

— George Bernard Shaw

A bad attitude is like a flat tire. You can't go anywhere until you change it.

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

— Nelson Mandela

The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

— Marcus Aurelius

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

— C. S. Lewis

Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I am made and remade continually. Different people draw different words from me.

— Virginia Woolf

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