October 2024 Life-Changing Quotes to Embrace

As the leaves change color, October symbolizes transformation. It is a time for introspection and renewal. It’s the perfect time to reflect and recharge and welcome new beginnings.

The right quote can change things. It can change your perspective and encourage you to keep going.

Let these powerful words guide you through the month, igniting your passion for growth and helping you embrace the beauty of change.

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Life-Changing Quotes to Embrace This October

As long as I am breathing, in my eyes, I am just beginning.

— Criss Jami

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

— Rosalynn Carter (Former US First Lady)

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

— James Joyce

Life is all about the evolution.

— J. Cole

A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it is committing another mistake.

— Confucius Kongzi

Nobody built like you, you design yourself.

— Jay-Z

Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

— Helen Keller

Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

— Napoleon Hill

Sometimes your mistakes are your biggest virtues. You learn so much from the mistake. Those things that you think are the worst thing that's happening to you can somehow turn around and be the greatest opportunity.

— Nicole Kidman

He who has a why to live can bear almost any how.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

— Dale Carnegie

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Every time you tear a leaf off a calendar, you present a new place for new ideas.

— Charles Kettering

The expert in anything was once a beginner.

— Helen Hayes

If you want one thing too much it's likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk--and feisty gentlemen.

— Larry McMurtry, Lonesome Dove

The advice I would give to someone is to not take anyone’s advice.

— Eddie Murphy

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

— Epictetus

I tell myself, 'You've been through so much, you've endured so much, time will allow me to heal, and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete, and mother I am today.

— Serena Williams

With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts.

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.

— Norman Vincent Peale

Man is free at the instant he wants to be.

— Various

Persistence guarantees that results are inevitable.

— Paramahansa Yogananda

You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.

— George Lorimer

Live your beliefs and you can turn the world around.

— Henry David Thoreau

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, do it. Make your mistakes next year and forever.

— Neil Gaiman

Working hard is very important. You're not going to get anywhere without working extremely hard.

— George Lucas

Don't even call them fans. I don't like that. They're literally just a part of my life; they're a part of my family. I don't think of them as on a lower level than me. I don't think I'm anything but equal to all of them. So, yeah, they're basically all of my siblings.

— Billie Eilish

Sports do not build character. They reveal it.

— Heywood Broun

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

— Nelson Mandela

Our lives are stories in which we write, direct and star in the leading role. Some chapters are happy while others bring lessons to learn, but we always have the power to be the heroes of our own adventures.

— Joelle Speranza

What the new year brings to you will depend a great deal on what you bring to the new year.

— Vern McLellan