Best Change Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“His eyes were more sunken than I remembered them, and his cheekbones more pronounced. This gave him a harsher, older look - until he smiled, of course, and the sagging cheeks gathered up like curtains.”

“Just remember, what the French say. No, probably not the French, they've got a president or something. The Brits, maybe, or the Swedes. You know what I mean?”

“The Angel of Death is always a young person, or a group of young people, you'll begin seeing them left and right soon.”

“Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.”

“What is the difference between a living thing and a dead thing? In the medical world, a clinical definition of death is a body that does not change. Change is life. Stagnation is death. If you don't change, you die. It's that simple. It's that scary.”

“When a country is defeated, there remain only mountains and rivers, and on a ruined castle in spring only grasses thrive. I sat down on my hat and wept bitterly till I almost forgot time.”

“Ah, Momma. I had never looked at death before, peered into its yawning chasm for the face of a beloved. For days my mind staggered out of balance. I reeled on a precipice of knowledge that even if I were rich enough to travel all over the world, I would never find Momma. If I were as good as God’s angels and as pure as the Mother of Christ, I could never have Momma’s rough slow hands pat my cheek or braid my hair.”

“What I must do is die now. I must accept the justice of death and the injustice of life. I have lived a good life - longer than many, better than most. Tony died when he was twenty. I have had thirty-two years. I couldn't ask for another day. What did I do to deserve birth? It was a gift. I am me - that is a miracle. I had no right to a single hour. And yet I have had thirty-two years. Few can choose when they will die. I choose to accept death now. As of this moment I give up my "right" to live.”

“Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change”

“I knew that I had been partially right in the storeroom above the bar on Christmas Day.”

“The one close to me now,”

“One of the grubby truths about a loss is that you don't just mourn the dead person, you mourn the person you got to be when the lost one was alive. This loss might even be what affects you most.”

“And she wept as well for the others lost in the Dark War, and she wept for her mother and the loss she had endured, and she wept for Emma and the Blackthorns, remembering how they had fought back tears when she had told them that she had seen Mark in the tunnels of Faerie, and how he belonged to the Hunt now, and she wept for Simon and the hole in her heart where he had been, and the she would miss him every day until she died, and she wept for herself and the changes that had been wrought in her, because sometimes even change for the better felt like a little death.”

“When you tire of living, change itself seems evil, does it not? for then any change at all disturbs the deathlike peace of the life-weary.”

“I've always figured it that you die each day and each day is a box, you see, all numbered and neat; but never go back and lift the lids, because you've died a couple of thousand times in your life, and that's a lot of corpses, each dead a different way, each with a worse expression. Each of those days is a different you, somebody you don't know or understand or want to understand.”

“Life is about moving, it’s about change. And when things stop doing that they’re dead.”

“Evaluate yourself. Are you in the right place and a good space? If not, is there anything that requires urgent change?”

“Evaluate how you should proceed from here, and change anything that needs to be changed while you can.”

“Evaluate yourself. Are you in the right place, and a good space? If not, is there anything that requires urgent change?”

“There’s a lot of things one can’t understand,’ Moominmamma said to herself. ‘But why should everything be exactly as one is used to having it?”

“Life--it goes on. Change happens. Secrets get out. Challenges appear. Decisions are forced. Whether we're ready for them or not.”

“It takes a lot of bravery to change paths so far down the road,” she murmured softly. “But turning back when you’ve realized you’re going the wrong direction? That’s not failure—it’s wisdom. There’s no shame in changing your mind. It’s how we grow. If you never try new things you might never discover what matters most.”

“The wind doesn’t ask permission to move mountains. It whispers, persists, and returns—until even stone begins to shift.”

“The river doesn’t rush to be heard, yet it carves stone. That’s the kind of patience we need now.”

“The future will not be inherited. It must be protected, reshaped, and loved into being.”

“Sometimes... to reach who you really are - to get to the core - you have to take that risk. Step through the fear. It's like crossing a bridge: it's scary, it's cold, the wind knocks you sideways. But once you're halfway across, you realize the view is better from there. And you don't want to go back.”

“As we live, we come to understand more each day, even about things we once thought we had mastered. Life has a way of always teaching us something new. I hope that as this happens, we never lose the ability to accept change for it is the only constant trying to make sense throughout our lives. May we meet change with grace, and may the passing of time shape us into the people we are meant to become.”

“Sometimes the collapse isn’t the end of your story—it’s the page where you finally start telling the truth.”

“Some people leave your life not because you failed, but because their role is over.”

“But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?”