Top 200 Transformation Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “For things to change, you have to change.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Life Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Action Quotes

2. “Change happens when the pain of staying the same is greater than the pain of change.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes, Motivational Monday Quotes

3. “Change the way you look at things and the things you look at change.”

— Wayne W. Dyer

Also featured in: Positive Quotes, Attitude Quotes, Change Quotes, Positivity Quotes

4. “The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”

— Joseph Campbell

Also featured in: Inspirational Life Quotes, Quotes About Trying, Challenges Quotes, Wise Quotes

5. “Life had to break you down so you could be rebuilt better.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Struggle Quotes, Character Quotes, Adversity Quotes

6. “Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Choices Quotes, Future Quotes

7. “Remember: we all get what we tolerate. So stop tolerating excuses within yourself, limiting beliefs of the past, or half-assed or fearful states.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Confidence Quotes, Change Quotes, Psychology Quotes

8. “Every time you are tempted to react in the same old way, ask if you want to be a prisoner of the past or a pioneer of the future.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Live Life Quotes, Empowering Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

9. “You are responsible for your life. You can’t keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on.”

— Oprah Winfrey

Also featured in: Focus Quotes, Impact Quotes, Life Philosophy Quotes

10. “Every single second is an opportunity to change your life, because in any moment you can change the way you feel.”

— Rhonda Byrne

Also featured in: Attitude Quotes, Optimistic Quotes, Emotional Quotes, Positive Motivation Quotes

11. “The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Creativity Quotes, Deep Quotes About Life, Self-Realization Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

12. “Become an alchemist. Transmute base metal into gold, suffering into consciousness, disaster into enlightenment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Enlightenment Quotes, Spiritual Growth Quotes

13. “If you assume that there is no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, that there are opportunities to change things, then there is a possibility that you can contribute to making a better world.”

— Noam Chomsky

Also featured in: Empowering Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Not Giving Up Quotes, Future Quotes

14. “The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it.”

— Karl Marx

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Changing the World Quotes, Taking Action Quotes, Struggle Quotes

15. “The only one you should compare yourself to is you. Your mission is to become better today than you were yesterday.”

— John C. Maxwell

Also featured in: Excellence Quotes, Performance Quotes, Empowerment Quotes

16. “Music can change the world because it can change people.”

— Bono

Also featured in: Music Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Impact Quotes, Meaningful Quotes

17. “All great changes are preceded by chaos.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Change Quotes

18. “Make your life a masterpiece: Step beyond the demands of the moment and begin right now to design and live the life you deserve.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Coaching Quotes, Encouragement Quotes

19. “Nothing endures but change. There is nothing permanent except change. All is flux, nothing stays still.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Time Quotes, Change Quotes, Philosophical Quotes, Moving Quotes

20. “It’s only a thought, and a thought can be changed. I am not limited by any past thinking. I choose my thoughts with care. I constantly have new insights and new ways of looking at my world. I am willing to change and grow.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Change Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Perspective Quotes, Mental Health Quotes

21. “I may not be the man I want to be; I may not be the man I ought to be; I may not be the man I could be; I may not be the man I truly can be; but praise God, I’m not the man I once was.”

— Martin Luther King Jr.

Also featured in: Christian Motivational Quotes, Self-Worth Quotes, Moving Quotes

22. “Correcting oneself is correcting the whole world. The Sun is simply bright. It does not correct anyone. Because it shines, the whole world is full of light. Transforming yourself is a means of giving light to the whole world.”

— Ramana Maharshi

Also featured in: Meaning Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Wellness Quotes, Practice Quotes

23. “You have escaped the cage. Your wings are stretched out. Now fly.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Resilience Quotes, Freedom Quotes, Path Quotes

24. “Knock, And He’ll open the door Vanish, And He’ll make you shine like the sun Fall, And He’ll raise you to the heavens Become nothing, And He’ll turn you into everything.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Blessing Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Sufism Quotes

25. “I am willing to release old negative beliefs. They are only thoughts that stand in my way. My new thoughts are positive and fulfilling.”

— Louise Hay

Also featured in: Self-Love Quotes, Cheer Quotes, Recovery Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes

26. “We all have our own story. And we stay attached to our story. This can stop us from growing and living. You wanna make your life better? Change your story, change your life.”

— Tony Robbins

Also featured in: Coaching Quotes, New Beginnings Quotes, Mental Strength Quotes

27. “To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

Also featured in: Focus On Yourself Quotes, Awakening Quotes, Inner Peace Quotes

28. “You are the world. When you transform yourself, the world you live in will also be transformed.”

— Deepak Chopra

Also featured in: Inner Peace Quotes, Wellness Wednesday Quotes

29. “Through Love all that is bitter will be sweet, Through Love all that is copper will be gold, Through Love all dregs will become wine, through Love all pain will turn to medicine.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Love Quotes, Love Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes

30. “You’ve seen my descent, now watch my rising.”

— Rumi

Also featured in: Inspirational Life Quotes, Poetry Quotes, Positive Thinking Quotes

31. “The best revenge is to improve yourself.”

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

Also featured in: Encouragement Quotes, Growth Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

32. “Look back at your life. It's always the hardest times that made you who you are.”

— Casey Neistat

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Growth Quotes, Challenges Quotes

33. “My life didn’t please me, so I created my life.”

— Coco Chanel

Also featured in: Short Quotes About Life, Self-Worth Quotes, Choices Quotes, Creative Quotes

34. “Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself.”

— Swami Vivekananda

Also featured in: Quotes About Strength, Confidence Quotes, Strong Quotes

35. “Personal growth is not a matter of learning new information but of unlearning old limits.”

— Alan Cohen

Also featured in: Live Life Quotes, Growth Quotes, Tuesday Motivational Quotes, Personal Growth Quotes

36. “You cannot dream yourself into a character: you must hammer and forge yourself into one.”

— Henry David Thoreau

Also featured in: Personality Quotes, Character Quotes

37. “There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.”

— Denis Waitley

Also featured in: Positivity Quotes, Motivational Quotes for Success, Personal Responsibility Quotes, Choices Quotes

38. “The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Goal Quotes, Short Motivational Quotes, Positive Inspirational Quotes

39. “Change is inevitable. Change is constant.”

— Benjamin Disraeli

Also featured in: Adaptability Quotes, Intelligent Quotes

40. “We generally change ourselves for one of two reasons: inspiration or desperation.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Deep Quotes About Life, Short Quotes About Life, Motivational Monday Quotes

41. “Sacrifice today for tomorrows betterment, you are willing to pay those payments with pain, because pain is just a message when you are fixing something that’s insufficient in your life.”

— Greg Plitt

Also featured in: Motivational Work Quotes, Commitment Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

42. “I wanted to surround myself with the kind of people who could help me turn my life around; people whom I could rub up against like iron and be sharpened.”

— Eric Thomas

Also featured in: Positive Motivation Quotes, Friday Motivational Quotes, Thursday Motivational Quotes

43. “The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become.”

— Jim Rohn

Also featured in: Positive Life Quotes, Personality Quotes, Positive Motivational Quotes

44. “Every day is another chance to get stronger, to eat better, to live healthier, and to be the best version of you.”

— Unknown

Also featured in: Short Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Workout Quotes, Progress Quotes, Health Quotes

45. “Persistence is the mother of personal change.”

— Robin S. Sharma

Also featured in: Persistence Quotes, Short Quotes, Psychology Quotes, Motivational Work Quotes

46. “Every change is a challenge to become who we really are.”

— Marianne Williamson

Also featured in: Self-Realization Quotes, Friday Inspirational Quotes, Challenges Quotes, Being Yourself Quotes

47. “No man ever steps in the same river twice, for it’s not the same river and he’s not the same man.”

— Heraclitus

Also featured in: Experience Quotes, Deep Quotes, Adaptability Quotes, Philosophy Quotes

48. “Every great move forward in your life begins with a leap of faith, a step into the unknown.”

— Brian Tracy

Also featured in: Moving On Quotes, Quotes About Believing, Risk-Taking Quotes

49. “Becoming is better than being.”

— Carol S. Dweck

Also featured in: Growth Mindset Quotes, Mindset Quotes, Professional Growth Quotes, Growth Quotes

50. “Effective change communication is at the heart of successful change, it acts like the blood in our bodies, but instead of supplying vital oxygen and nutrients, communication supplies information and motivation to the impacted stakeholders.”

— Peter F Gallagher

Also featured in: Communication Quotes