Change For The Better Sayings and Quotes

Below you will find our collection of inspirational, wise, and humorous old change for the better quotes, change for the better sayings, and change for the better proverbs, collected over the years from a variety of sources.

To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often. Winston Churchill
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. George Bernard Shaw
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay. Simone De Beauvoir
Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence. Jean Paul
Change your thoughts and you change your world. Norman Vincent Peale
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. William Frederick Book
A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. Chinese Proverb
Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy creating. M.F. Ryan
Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation. Mahatma Gandhi
It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change. Charles Darwin
It doesn't matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go. Bob Proctor
Never too old, never too bad, never too late, never too sick to start from scratch once again. Bikram Choudhury
Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go at some point in order to move forward. C.S. Lewis
Each person's task in life is to become an increasingly better person. Leo Tolstoy
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. Andre Gide
When in doubt, choose change. Lily Leung
All great changes are preceded by chaos. Deepak Chopra
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together. Marilyn Monroe
And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time Libba Bray
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
If we change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living. Gail Sheeshy
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 Andy Law
Change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn't all bad not by any means. In fact, change is necessary in life to keep us moving ... to keep us growing ... to keep us interested . ... Imagine life without change. It would be static ... boring ... du Dr. Dennis O'Grady
Every generation needs a new revolution. Thomas Jefferson
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. Dwight D. Eisenhower
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. Francis Bacon
If you wait, all that happens is you get older. Larry McMurtry
Be the change that you wish to see in the world. Mahatma Gandhi
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. Linda Ellerbee
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
I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. Aldous Huxle
When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them. Andy Warhol
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. Jim Rohn
Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. Carol Burnett
Change is the constant, the signal for rebirth, the egg of the phoenix. Christina Baldwin
We all have big changes in our lives that are more or less a second chance. Harrison Ford
The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being. Jennifer Hudson
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change. Ramsay Clark
There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered. Nelson Mandela
To change the name and not the letter, is a change for the worst, and not for the better. Robert Chambers
Each of us has the opportunity to change and grow until our very last breath. Happy creating. M. F. Ryan
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. Christopher Paolini
One cause of misery is the inability to change. Edward Counsel
Nothing happens until the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change Arthur Burt
We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us. Joseph Campbell
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change. Jim Rohn
Our lives improve only when we take chances and the first and most difficult risk we can take is to be honest with ourselves. Walter Anderson
We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty. Maya Angelou
A scholar who loves comfort is not fit to be called a scholar. Confucius
Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts. Arnold Bennett
When we feel like we need to measure up or to be better at something because we want to avoid disappointing the person we love, it is much harder to change for the better, because it's hard to change when it's not a change for ourselves, but for other people. Xandria Ooi
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. George Christoph Lichtenberg
The world will change for the better when people decide they are sick and tired of being sick and tired of the way the world is, and decide to change themselves. Sydney Madwed
Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better. Harry S. Truman
To change and to change for the better are two different things. German Proverb
We must become the change we want to see. Mahatma Gandhi
You can change all things for the better when you change yourself for the better. Jim Rohn
The most powerful thing you can do to change the world is to change your own beliefs about the nature of life, people, reality, to something more positive. Shakti Gawain
Setting aside time to ponder on what we can change, and actively working to achieve those changes, means that we are freeing ourselves from the presumed restrictions of the past and that our changes are changes for the better. Elizabeth Wilde McCormick
For sure, there is always something about ourselves we can improve on. The human potential is limitless, so it's impossible to reach a point of no growth. David Brinkley
But we can always assume that we all have the right and responsibility to choose to improve our condition in life. And that choice is the main trait of intelligence in a human being. David Brinkley
There is nobody who totally lacks the courage to change. Rollo May
I was fortunate to find other ways to serve and be of use and to try my best to bring a positive change to the world. And I'm still trying. Gore
Knowledge is power, and if you're looking for the power to change, you have to make yourself knowledgeable. This is a message I try to continually share with children and hope that it takes hold and they go out and learn how to change the world in a positive way. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Change is inevitable. In a progressive country, change is constant. Benjamin Disraeli
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought. John Stuart Mill
If you know what you want to achieve in life, then you are more inspired to change for the better. Philip Vang
A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will. Spanish Proverb
Don’t be afraid to give up the good to go for the great. John D. Rockefeller
There is nothing wrong with change if it is in the right direction. Winston Churchill
The thing that lies at the foundation of positive change, the way I see it, is service to a fellow human being. Lech Waslesa
In order to design a future of positive change, we must first become an expert at changing our minds. Jacque Fresco
I have always wanted to be a catalyst for bringing about positive change, inspiring others to choose goodness. Shari Arison
I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change. Dominique Moceanu
At any given moment we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety. Abraham Maslow
When the winds of change blow, some people build walls and others build windmills. Chinese Proverb
The art of progress is to preserve order amid change and to preserve change amid order. Alfred North Whitehead
We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. C. JoyBell C.

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