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100 Short Positive Life Changing Quotes for When You Are Ready for a New Chapter

If you feel that your life needs a change then these life changing quotes will be perfect for you. You will find the perfect positive words for when you are ready for a new chapter. Start scrolling to find your favorite quote.

Short Life Life Changing Quotes

“Be the change that you wish to see in the world.” ― Mahatma Gandhi

“By changing nothing, nothing changes.” – Tony Robbins

“When in doubt, choose change.” – Lily Leung

“All great changes are preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra

“If you don’t like where your life is going, change it.” ― Naïde Pavelly Obiang

Person looking at volcano with short life quotes about change by Obiang

“Never, never, never, never give up.” – Winston Churchill

“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not.” – Stephen King

“You cannot change what you are, only what you do.” – Philip Pullman

“My life is my message.” – Mahatma Gandhi

“An unexamined life is not worth living.”– Socrates

“You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” – Mae West

“To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” ― Oscar Wilde

“Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.” – Albert Einstein

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” –George Bernard Shaw

The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live.”- Elbert Hubbard

“The meaning of life is to give life meaning.” – Ken Hudgins

“You can’t live an exceptional life by being “normal.”” – Nick Maley

“You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.” —Oprah Winfrey

Man looking at ocean with life quotes on change by Oprah

“If you run you stand a chance of losing, but if you don’t run you’ve already lost.” – Barack Obama

“In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years.” – Abraham Lincoln

“Life is not about how fast you run or how high you climb, but how well you bounce.” – Vivian Komori

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill

“Why tomorrow when there is today?”― Connor Franta

“Our life is all about personal choices we make. We choose the life we live.”― Sanjeev Himachali

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.” — Will Rogers

“Success is most often achieved by those who don’t know that failure is inevitable.” – Coco Chanel

“Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“You can’t put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.” – Michael Phelps

“Life is short, and it is here to be lived.” — Kate Winslet

If you like these, you might also want to check out our other lists of Life Lesson Quotes, Funny Life Quotes, Life and Love Quotes, Short Love Your Life Quotes, Sunset Quotes About Life and Life is Good Quotes.

Our Favorite Change Your Life Quotes

“Self-transformation is not just about changing yourself. It means shifting yourself to a completely new dimension of experience and perception.” — Jaggi Vasudev

“There are things I can’t force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.” —Denis Diderot

“To change your life, change something you do daily.” ― Robert Celner

Sunrise with life changing quotes by Robert Celner

“Before anyone can improve their life, they must get the idea that change is possible, that life can be different and better, and that it is worth the effort it takes to make it happen.” ― Donna Goddard

“When you realize how precious and fragile life is, it changes your whole perspective.” —Ryan O’Donnell

“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.” —Mahatma Gandhi

“If you want things to change, you need to change and change things.” ― Aiyaz Uddin

“Living an experience, a particular fate, is accepting it fully.” — Albert Camus

“Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Change yourself not others and have them watch you” ― Isaac Nash

“Let go. Surrender. Go for the ride of your life. Do it every day.” – Melody Beattie

“Don’t wait for someone or something to come and change your life. The power of change, along with the responsibility to carry it through, resides in you.” ― Jennifer Crowley

“I believe that nothing in life is unimportant every moment can be a beginning.” — John McLeod

“When we do the best we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or the life of another.” — Helen Keller

“Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.” – Omar Khayyam

“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” ― Leo Tolstoy

“Every success story is a tale of constant adaption, revision and change.” —Richard Branson

“If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.” —Gail Sheehy

Man on cliff with quotes about change and growth by Gail Sheehy

“Life is growth. If we stop growing, technically and spiritually, we are as good as dead.” – Morihei Ueshiba

“One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.” —Abraham Maslow

“Growth and self-transformation cannot be delegated.” —Lewis Mumford

“The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.” – Oprah Winfrey

“Transformation is a process, and as life happens there are tons of ups and downs. It’s a journey of discovery.” —Rick Warren

“People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“The great solution to all human problems is individual inner transformation.” — Vernon Howard

“Life is very interesting… in the end, some of your greatest pains, become your greatest strengths.” – Drew Barrymore

“In every change, in every falling leaf there is some pain, some beauty. And that’s the way new leaves grow.” ― Amit Ray

“Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction.” ― Germany Kent

Footstep on a sand dune iwth inspirational life changing quotes by Germany Kent

“I learned from an early age that anyone is capable of huge and transformative change, at any time. I know because I achieved it myself.” ― Shawn Wells

“Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn’t stop for anybody.” – Stephen Chbosky

“Things don’t have to change the world to be important” – Steve Jobs

“And that is how change happens. One gesture. One person. One moment at a time.” – Libba Bray

“Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.” – Ovid

“Death and love are the two wings that bear the good man to heaven.” – Michelangelo

“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.” – Agatha Christie

“We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.” – Khalil Gibran

“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” – Marcus Aurelius

“What will be your death note?”― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Truly, it is in darkness that one finds the light, so when we are in sorrow, then this light is nearest of all to us.” – Meister Eckhart

Foggy forest with quotes of life changes by Eckhart

“Death is sometimes kinder than Love.”― Rick Riordan

“When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.” – William Shakespeare

“Don’t cry after my death, I won’t know it. Love me when I am alive.” – Luffina Lourduraj

“Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.” – Stefan Kanfer

“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.” – Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes” – Johann Wolfgang

Church spires and hills with changed life quotes by Johann Wolfgang

“A year from now you will wish you had started today.” – Karen Lamb

“No one ever finds life worth living – one has to make it worth living.”– Winston Churchill

“Challenges are what make life interesting and overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.” – Joshua J. Marine

“It’s better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.” – Elizabeth Kenny

“Each of us experiences defeats in life. We can transform defeat into victory if we learn from life’s whuppings.” – Les Brown

“The people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen

“Live life to the fullest, and focus on the positive.” – Matt Cameron

“Life changes very quickly, in a very positive way, if you let it.” – Lindsey Vonn

Person looking at sunset with changes in life quotes by Lindsey Vonn

“Every day is a new opportunity to change your life.” ― Germany Kent

“Never try to change others, change yourself and other people will naturally change with your reflection.” ― Shiva Negi

“The mirror reflects what has been worked out for days, months, years and decades. If you do not like what you see; remember it’s not too late to change the direction” ― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua

“There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt

“Life often teaches us through our wrong turns and missed possibilities.” – Anne Wilson Schaef

“Each person must live their life as a model for others.” – Rosa Parks

“Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”– George Bernard Shaw

Positive Life Change Quotes

“Success comes from the inside out. In order to change what is on the outside, you must first change what is on the inside.” ― Idowu Koyenikan

“Change your attitude and you change your life.” – Roy Bennett

Person on walkway by ocean with change your life quotes by Roy Bennett

“Love people who hate you. Pray for people who have wronged you. It won’t just change their life…it’ll change yours.” ― Mandy Hale

“Spending more time with the right people is the key to changing your life.” ― Germany Kent

“Small shifts in your thinking, and small changes in your energy, can lead to massive alterations of your end result.” ― Kevin Michel

“Today is a good day to boss up and change your situation.” ― Germany Kent

“To shift your life in a desired direction, you must powerfully shift your subconscious.” ― Kevin Michel

“If you want to turn your life you’re going to have to start making things happen and stop allowing things to happen to you” ― Kyra Davis

So that’s our list. We hope you found the quote you were looking for.

So go out and find what inspires you to make the changes you need to!

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Laynni Locke

I am Laynni Locke, a Canadian writer, reader and traveller with a passion for sharing life’s moments on social media. Keeping friends and family in the loop of our lives though photos and videos has become an essential activity for most.

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