Every stage of your life requires a new version of you to show up. This is the process of reinvention. I thought I’d share some quotes about reinventing yourself to remind you not to give up.
Although changing anything in your life is not easy, it can be extremely rewarding. Pushing yourself beyond the limits you had placed on yourself, believing in yourself. It’s all very exciting.
But hard. Let’s not forget how hard and messy it can be. You are in control of the direction of your life, and if you don’t like which way it’s headed, it’s up to change it.
That’s the hard part. It takes a lot of work. Work we’ve never done before.
But you know that change is a long time coming. You know that in the long run, you’re going to be so much happier. But that work! Oy! I hear ya.
I hope these 55 awesome quotes about reinventing yourself will motivate and inspire you.
The Hardest Part About Reinventing Yourself
So, here’s the thing. People generally are afraid of change. Comfort zones are called that for a reason – they’re comfortable, and as humans, we want to be comfortable.
Change isn’t comfortable at all. Robin Sharma said it best. This is probably one of my favourite quotes about reinventing yourself. It’s so darn true!
Change is hard at first, messy in the middle, and gorgeous at the end.
And he’s not wrong.
But the hardest part of reinvention and personal growth is taking the first step to create your new life. Lemme share my story of extraordinary change with you really quickly if you don’t already know it.
I’ll condense it to not make this long and drawn out:
- 52 yr old hairdresser working in a mall in Northern Ontario, Canada
- tired of life, broken, broke and fed up
- abused my whole life
- desperately wanted a new life
- slowly started mapping out the life I wanted
- became a freelance writer
- at 53, I packed up all my stuff and bought a one-way ticket to Guatemala (2015)
- haven’t looked back since
Was any of that easy? Nope. Was it rewarding? Yup! I can’t tell you how many times I wanted to throw up while reinventing myself.
I had to do things, alone, I might add, that I had never done before. And let me tell you, I am living some of the best days of my life right now. True story!
Many women in midlife and beyond suffer from low self-esteem, lack of self-confidence, and little to 0 belief in themselves. That’s why most of us are too afraid to reinvent ourselves or change anything.
Every change, no matter how small, is terrifying. But you know you have to. So many people wonder when the best time to start is. Now. Right now.
Before you know it, you’ll be a whole new person, and you won’t even recognize yourself. And that’s such a beautiful thing.
You can also check out these articles and videos to learn more about my story!
How to Start Over at 50 With Nothing
Starting a New Life Alone Over 50 – 10 Things To Do
55 Epic Quotes About Reinventing Yourself
Here is the best collection of quotes about reinventing yourself I can find. Some are from famous people, a few are from me, and some are unknown (or anonymous). I hope you like them.
1 If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.
Charles Bukowski
2 If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.
Jane Fonda
3 Every change is a challenge to become who we really are
Marianne Williamson
4 Be prepared to reinvent yourself. Be prepared to go out on a limb occasionally, and be prepared to do the things that you feel strongly about.
Hillman Curtis
5 Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
6 It is not too late to take another path.
David Suzuki
7 If you give up at the first sign of struggle, you’re really not ready to be successful.
Kevin Hart
8 Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.
Eric Thomas
9 The woman I am today would like to thank the woman I was 5 years ago for not giving up. You’re awesome!
Iva Ursano
10 Yesterday I was clever so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise so I am changing myself.
Rumi
11 My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing
Jane Fonda
12 Every human has four endowments – self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom… The power to choose, to respond, to change.
Stephen Covey
13 Someone who is reinventing always has spare time. Part of reinvention is collecting little bits and pieces of time and carving them the way you want them to be.
James Altucher
14 One day you will tell your story of how you overcame what you went through and it will be somone else’s survival guide
Brené Brown
15 I love who I am becoming.
Unknown
16 A year ago everything was so different. It’s amazing how much can change in such a short amount of time.
Iva Ursano
17 The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old but on building the new
Socrates
18 Go easy on yourself you’re doing great. This is just really hard.
Unknown
19 It is never too late to be what you might have been
George Elliot
20 Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
Jack Canfield
21 The reinvention of daily life, means marching off the edge of our maps
Bob Black
22 Real change isn’t found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all. It isn’t something of which most of us are aware, but we human beings are ‘marked’ with a certain strange feature, and that is: We want to change
Guy Finley
23 I am a believer in change peu a peu (little by little), since drastic changes, including lots of changes made all at once, are often the sort of modifications that don’t stick
Mireille Guiliano
24 It’s not always about fixing what is broken, sometimes it’s about starting over and creating something new
Unknown
25 Don’t ever feel like your best days are behind you. Reinvention is the purest form of hope. Make today your best yet
Phil Wohl
26 You must learn a new way to think before you can master a new way to be
Marianne Williamson
27 Those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
28 I am still making order out of chaos by reinvention
John Le Carre
29 Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt.
Jon Krakauer
30 Be the woman who just went for it
Unknown
31 When things are bad, it’s the best time to reinvent yourself
George Lopez
32 Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step
Lao Tzu
33 A person can grow only as much as his horizon allows.
John Powell
34 If you wish to reinvent yourself, focus on what you wish for, not on what you fear
Unknown
35 Every time you reinvent yourself, you will be a fuller and better woman for it
Katie Mitchell Hall
36 Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation
Stephen Covey
37 Keep on reinventing yourself. Always strive to be a better version of yourself!
Avijeet Das
38 If you are not where you want to be, do not quit, instead reinvent yourself and change your habits.
Eric Thomas
39 I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To not be like your parents. To not be like your friends. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry Rollins
40 You’re never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream
Unknown
41 Reinventing yourself is the only way to invent anything new in life
Sandeep Sutari
42 Embrace loneliness and reinvent yourself in the process of your dreams
Sam Gilbert
43 When we can view change as an opportunity and embrace it, we find that it creates more ease and gives us something to look forward to.
Whitney Gordon-Mead
44 Life is full of constant changes and learning to reinvent yourself throughout them. Why not start today reinventing yourself into becoming a better you.
Timothy Pina
45 It’s essential that we continue to grow and change in big or small ways- one day at a time.
Caren Merrick
46 Live your life impressing yourself
Unknown
47 Reinvent your life, rediscover yourself, recapture your aims.
Alimpan
48 The world is open to us and each day is an occasion to reinvent ourselves.
Ralph Lauren
49 The true essence of fashion is being able to reinvent yourself with what you have
Melanie Fiona
50 Nothing changes if nothing changes
Unknown
51 Reinventing yourself is like rearranging the livingroom furniture of your life
Unknown
52 Every day you reinvent yourself. You’re always in motion. But you decide every day: forward or backward
James Altucher
53 People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out
Warren Bennis
54 We fear the future will mirror our past, because we are born to believe that history repeats itself. But human beings are not history, they reinvent themselves
Rania Naim
55 Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my lif
J.K. Rowling
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