Change and transformation are key features in a successful individual, business, or society. Understanding the gravity change and transformation can have on your life can help you for the better.
Often people try to avoid change as it can be scary but knowing the value of change and how it can outweigh any fear will make it easier when you do decide to transform. In this day and age, being welcoming of the changes that come with life is crucial for your success. Change can help people and organizations adapt effectively as progression calls for adaptability and agility.
Instead of writing on the importance of change and transformation, we have compiled a list of 100 quotes that will hopefully inspire change as well as motivate you to be a better version of yourself.
“Yes, your transformation will be hard. Yes, you will feel frightened, messed up, and knocked down. Yes, you’ll want to stop. Yes, it’s the best work you’ll ever do.”
Robin Sharma
“The world is changing very fast. Big will not beat small anymore. It will be the fast beating the slow.”
Rupert Murdoch
“If you want to make enemies, try to change something.”
Woodrow Wilson
“Transformation isn’t sweet and bright. It’s a dark and murky, painful pushing. An unraveling of the untruths you’ve carried in your body. A practice in facing your own created demons. A complete uprooting, before becoming.”
Victoria Erickson
“Real transformation requires real honesty. If you want to move forward – get real with yourself.”
Bryant McGill
“The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do.”
Amelia Earhart
“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
Lao Tzu
“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
“Whosoever desires constant success must change his conduct with the times.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“It’s not about perfect. It’s about effort. And when you implement that effort into your life. Every single day, that’s where transformation happens. That’s how change occurs. Keep going. Remember why you started.”
Jillian Michaels
“Nothing happens until the pain of remaining the same outweighs the pain of change.”
Arthur Burt
“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.”
Niccolo Machiavelli
“Change starts in your thoughts.”
Anonymous
“You and I possess within ourselves at every moment of our lives, under all circumstances, the power to transform the quality of our lives.”
Werner Erhard
“Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, and keep intact your roots.”
Victor Hugo
“Change has a bad reputation in our society. But it isn’t all bad – not by any means. In fact, change is necessary for life – to keep us moving, to keep us growing, to keep us interested. Imagine life without change. It will be static, boring, dull.”
Dr. Dennis O’Grady
“If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.”
Anonymous
“The path of greatness requires a transformation to your higher self.”
ATGW
“Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery – there are moments on mountaintops and moments in deep valleys of despair.”
Rick Warren
“Change is inevitable, but transformation is by conscious choice.”
Heather Ash Amara
“When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness.”
Joseph Campbell
“If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.”
Jim Rohn
“The wings of transformation are born of patience and struggle.”
Janet S. Dickens
“Transformation isn’t a future event. It’s a present-day activity.”
Jillian Michaels
“You have to maintain a culture of transformation and stay true to your values.”
Jeff Weiner
“Companies that change may survive, but companies that transform thrive. Change brings incremental or small-scale adaptations, while transformation brings great improvements that ripple through the future of an organization.”
Nick Candito
“Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.”
Philip Crosby
“Change cannot be put on people. The best way to instill change is to do it with them. Create it with them.”
Lisa Bodell
“Change is a normal part of our lives, but it’s uncomfortable for the vast majority of people because it makes them feel like they’ve lost control. Do you remember a time when you felt like things were being done to you that you had no control over? That’s how they may feel now. In every way you can, let them know that you can relate to that.”
Mary Jo Asmus
“Our only security is our ability to change.”
John Lilly
“You can’t change the world alone – you will need some help – and to truly get from your starting point to your destination takes friends, colleagues, the goodwill of strangers, and a strong coxswain to guide them.”
William H. McRaven
“Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.”
Joel A. Barker
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”
Andy Warhol
“Change can be hard. It requires no extra effort to settle for the same old thing. Auto-pilot keeps us locked into past patterns. But transforming your life? That requires courage, commitment, and effort. It’s tempting to stay camped in the zone of That’s-Just-How-It-Is. But to get to the really good stuff in life, you have to be willing to become an explorer and adventurer.”
John Mark Green
“Let nothing hold you back from creating the life you’ve always wanted.”
Anonymous
“Don’t fear failure. Fear being in the exact same place next year as you are today.”
Michael Hyatt
“The reality is that the only way change comes is when you lead by example.”
Anne Wojcicki
“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”
Charles Kettering
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.”
Napoleon Hill
“I’ve never seen any life transformation that didn’t begin with the person in question finally getting tired of their own nonsense.”
Elizabeth Gilbert
“The rate of change is not going to slow down anytime soon. If anything, competition in most industries will probably speed up even more in the next few decades.”
John P. Kotter
“The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence – it is to act with yesterday’s logic.”
Peter Drucker
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Jalaluddin Rumi
“You’re always one decision away from a totally different life.”
Anonymous
“In order to save myself, I must destroy first the me I was told to be.”
Anonymous
“Change is hard because people overestimate the value of what they have and underestimate the value of what they may gain by giving that up.”
James Belasco and Ralph Stayer
“Your success in life isn’t based on your ability to simply change. It is based on your ability to change faster than your competition, customers, and business.”
Mark Sanborn
“The key to change … is to let go of fear.”
Rosanne Cash
“Transformation literally means going beyond your form.”
Wayne Dyer
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.”
Nelson Mandela
“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
Albert Einstein
“To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.”
Winston Churchill
“A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.”
Icelandic Proverb
“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.”
Oprah Winfrey
“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
Raymond Chandler, The Long Goodbye
“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
“Change is inevitable, but preparation is a choice.”
Engelina Jaspers
“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.”
Georg C. Lichtenburg
“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.”
Stephen Chbosky, The Perks Of Being A Wallflower
“The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.”
Warren Buffett
“True life is lived when tiny changes occur.”
Leo Tolstoy
“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.”
Steve Jobs
“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“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
“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, A Hat Full of Sky
“Embrace each challenge in your life as an opportunity for self-transformation.”
Bernie S. Siegel
“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”
Erica Jong
“Change alone is eternal, perpetual, immortal.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
“The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive the situation, unless you realize that the situation is over, you cannot move forward.”
Steve Maraboli
“If you want to fly, you have to give up what weighs you down.”
Roy T. Bennett
“If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
Maya Angelou
“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.”
Libba Bray, The Sweet Far Thing
“I alone cannot change the world, but I can cast a stone across the waters to create many ripples.”
Mother Teresa
“Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”
Wayne W. Dyer
“Change is the only constant in life.”
Heraclitus
“I know this transformation is painful, but you’re not falling into something different, with a new capacity to be beautiful.”
William C. Hanna
“Few things are more important during a change event than communication from leaders who can paint a clear and confidence-inspiring vision of the future.”
Sarah Clayton
“As dealing with change becomes a regular activity, leading it becomes a skill to hone, an internal capacity to master.”
Arnaud Henneville
“Every successful organization has to make the transition from a world defined primarily by repetition to one primarily defined by change. This is the biggest transformation in the structure of how humans work together since the Agricultural Revolution.”
Bill Drayton
“Change is painful, but nothing is as painful as staying stuck somewhere you don’t belong.”
Maandy Hale
“The secret of change is to focus all your energy, not fighting the old, but on building the new.”
Socrates
“Destiny is not a matter of chance; it is a matter of choice. It is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.”
William Jennings Bryan
“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
“If you are unwilling to change and adapt as your situation in life changes, life will always be one step ahead of you.”
Matt Fox
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“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
“Change, like healing, takes time.”
Veronica Roth, Allegiant
“I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point
“All things are difficult before they are easy.”
Thomas Fuller
“There are far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
C.S. Lewis
“Change is inevitable. Growth is optional.”
John Maxwell
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong, but sometimes it is letting go.”
Hermann Hesse
“Growth and comfort do not coexist.”
Ginni Rometty
“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change, grow, and transform.”
Roy T. Bennett
“Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.”
Roy T. Bennett
“All growth depends upon activity. There is no development physically or intellectually without effort, and effort means work.”
Calvin Coolidge
“All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.”
Sophocles, Antigone
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
Leo Tolstoy
Wrapping Up
It is the want to change oneself or the world that motivates a person and understanding this will help you make the change you’ve been afraid to make. Eventually, change and transformation bring nothing but good into your life, so although it can be terrifying right now, once you take the first step it becomes easier, and you will finally chive what you thought was impossible!
