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Quotes About Change

Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.
~ Orison Swett Marden
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
~ Jacques Yves Cousteau
Once an object has been incorporated in a picture it accepts a new destiny.
~ Georges Braque
Great changes in the destiny of mankind can be effected only in the minds of little children.
~ Herbert Read
It seems that great minds a hundred years ago saw what would happen today or tomorrow, while we to whom it is happening blind ourselves in order not to be disturbed in our daily routine.
~ Erich Fromm
You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.
~ Elaine S. Dalton
Some never get started on their destiny course because they cannot humble themselves to learn, grow, and change.
~ Casey Treat
Destiny and history are untidy.
~ Djuna Barnes
I'm not a prophet. I'm a destiny-changer. It's all right to prophesy, but the best thing to do is change things, if you've got the power.
~ Sun Ra
Nothing can have as its destination anything other than its origin. The contrary idea, the idea of progress, is poison.
~ Simone Weil
Rejection is merely a redirection; a course correction to your destiny.
~ Bryant H. McGill
Greater dooms win greater destinies.
~ Heraclitus
As eight years before, he was leaving ... to rewrite his destiny in orderly fashion.
~ Alessandro Baricco
You can change things, you can make things better.
~ Jeff Bridges
To step toward your destiny, you may have to step away from your security.
~ Craig Groeschel
A person's destiny can be changed through the power of a saint.
~ Mata Amritanandamayi
I think women need to be kinder to other women. I think once we realize that, shoulder to shoulder, walking in the same direction, we're the greatest force of nature…our destiny can change.
~ Lynn Tilton
You got to control your own destiny. You got to keep writin different stuff. Keep switchin up and never do the same thin too many times.
~ Chris Tucker
You know, words have strange destiny, too. They grow. They get old. They die. They come back.
~ Elie Wiesel
But you can catch yourself entertaining habitually certain ideas and setting others aside; and that, I think, is where our personal destinies are largely decided.
~ Alfred North Whitehead
Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.
~ Frank B. Kellogg
Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically, then you can change your destiny.
~ Frederick Lenz
You can't change your past but you can change you destiny but deciding for Christ.
~ Billy Graham
By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.
~ Guy Gavriel Kay, Tigana