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Quotes About Change

Who cannot but see oftentimes how strange the threads of our destiny run? Oft it is only for a moment the favorable instant is presented. We miss it, and months and years are lost.
~ Johann Ludwig Tieck
I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence.
~ Benjamin Franklin
You have all the influence you choose to have.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
You can't go back, Ever. You can't change the past. It just is. . . . This is our destiny. Not yours.
~ Alyson Noel, Blue Moon
Everything that happens is supposed to be And it's all pre-determined, can't change your destiny Guess I'll just keep moving, someday maybe I'll get to where I'm going
~ Conor Oberst
Dreams can change histories and songs can alter destinies.
~ Tiffanie DeBartolo
It is obvious: if you do not accept something that assumes the form of 'destiny,' you not only change its 'natural laws' but also the laws of the enemy playing the role of fate.
~ Hannah Arendt
Once [China] had a destiny. Once she was a conqueror. Now her greatest destiny seems to be merely to exist, to survive.
~ Lin Yutang
Destroy the seed and the plant will never grow. Man alone, of all creatures of earth, can change his thought pattern and become the architect of his destiny.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Wherever human beings are concerned, trend is not destiny.
~ Rene Dubos
Could it be that we lost something because had we not lost it, we would have lost ourselves?
~ Craig D. Lounsbrough
People that live on the edge of two millenniums are people of a special destiny
~ Sunday Adelaja
The river flows to the sea, whatever the wind says about it
~ Naomi Novik, Blood of Tyrants
You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you can make up a new one.
~ Sarah Addison Allen, Lost Lake
A change of feeling is a change of destiny. - Neville Goddard P.g44
~ Unknown
Will you not see?" she cried. "You are not as other men are. Why need you bow to a Fate? Can you not change it?
~ Unknown
It took only a second for another to arrive on the same path as yours and change your life to a point it couldn't change back. One second.
~ Dennis Lehane, The Given Day
The destiny of your nation is in your hands, waiting for your actions.
~ Sunday Adelaja
I don't know about you, but I believe that in our present time we are definitely shaking things up with human fate in this world.
~ Unknown
Fate has a way of putting in front of us, that wich we most try to leave behind.
~ Unknown
Everything passes everything wears out everything breaks.(Tout passe tout lasse tout casse.)
~ French proverb
Fortune is fickle and soon asks back what he has given.
~ Latin proverb
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form.
~ Karl Marx
I used to wanna change the world. Now I just wanna leave the room with a little dignity.
~ Justin Vivian Bond