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Quotes about change Change can be chosen, resisted or imposed. These verified quotations explore uncertainty, new beginnings, deliberate action, resilience and the inner work of adapting. They do not pretend that every disruption is automatically beneficial; instead, they offer language for meeting transition honestly and deciding what can be carried forward.. Each quotation includes a traceable source and approved rights status.
Reviewed 27 July 2026 · Quotes.org.in editorial desk · 22 verified quotations
Indian voices in this collection
Indian poetry and wisdom, read in context. 13 selections on this page come from verified public-domain Indian editions, including 2 in Hindi where available. Author and source pages explain the original work, wording, translation and editorial method.
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Words for transitions, growth and beginning again. For a deliberate next step, begin with the quotations about courage and action. For an unwanted transition, choose words that acknowledge uncertainty before reaching for optimism. Related collections include quotes about strength , positive quotes and graduation quotes .
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Is “Be the change you wish to see” a verified Gandhi quotation? No exact match has been established in Gandhi’s writings for that familiar wording, so it is not published here as a verified quotation. This collection favours lines that can be traced to an identified text.
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22 verified quotes
✓ Source verified “Is it not a pleasure, having learned something, to try it out at due intervals?” Confucius
Analects, Book 1 · View source
✓ Source verified “Sweet are the uses of adversity.” William Shakespeare
As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 1 · View source
✓ Source verified “Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
Essays, First Series — Circles · View source
✓ Source verified “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.” William Shakespeare
As You Like It, Act 2, Scene 7 · View source
✓ Source verified “Our doubts are traitors, and makes us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.” William Shakespeare
Measure for Measure, Act 1, Scene 4 · View source
✓ Source verified “I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.” Charles Dickens
A Christmas Carol, Stave Four · View source
✓ Source verified “Lord, we know what we are but know not what we may be.” William Shakespeare
Hamlet, Act 4, Scene 5 · View source
✓ Source verified “Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high.” Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali, poem 35 · View source
✓ Source verified “Where the old tracks are lost, new country is revealed with its wonders.” Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali, poem 37 · View source
✓ Source verified “Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached.” Swami Vivekananda
The Complete Works, Volume 3 — The Vedanta · View source
✓ Source verified “The morning will surely come, the darkness will vanish.” Rabindranath Tagore
Gitanjali, poem 19 · View source
✓ Source verified “Thy Future calls thee with a manifold sound to crescent honours, splendours, victories vast.” Sarojini Naidu
The Golden Threshold — To India · View source
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