Top 100 Change Direction Quotes
#1. Every sailor knows that you can't sail a ship that isn't moving forward, strong leaders understand that to change direction, you first have to create forward progress.
John C. Maxwell
#2. If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it.
Neale Donald Walsch
#3. Unless you change direction, you will end up where you are headed.
Shigeo Shingo
#4. If you don't change direction, you end up where you are headed.
John Gibbons
#5. If there's something you want to do, then that means you have a goal. But that goal may change as you live. You never know when your interests may change direction, so always anticipate it, day by day.
Kim Tae-yeon
#6. Let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers.
Haruki Murakami
#7. Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction
only enough to make you useless.
Daniel Nayeri
#8. Our heads are round so thought can change direction
Allen Ginsberg
#9. Our heads are round so our thoughts can change direction.
Francis Picabia
#10. None of the questions was what I expected. Most of them were esoteric thought experiments, 'How would you turn Pride and Prejudice into a video game?' and 'If you added a button to Pac-Man, what would you want it to do?' Conundrums like 'How come when Mario jumps he can change direction in midair?
Austin Grossman
#11. Today is the day to stop, look around, realize where you are in relation to where you want to be, change direction if needed and move forward with faith in God and in yourself.
Toni Sorenson
#12. If you don't change direction, you may end up where you're heading.
Vi Keeland
#13. Our heads are round so that thoughts can change direction.
Francis Picabia
#14. And Seaman, just like a falling oak, manages to change direction.
John Motson
#16. Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction
Paulo Coelho
#17. We are going to expand enormously
our economy, our consumption, over the years to come ... But the consequences of that on emissions are going to be severe unless we change direction.
Tony Blair
#18. But another thing I know is this - we can't steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can't change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that's what this election is all about.
Barack Obama
#19. I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama
#20. I try to have an open ear, but at the end, it would never change direction to where I think I should go. Because if I listened to everybody else, they're thinking about what's right now or what was the last thing - they're not thinking about what's next.
Paul Weller
#21. GUIL (quietly): Where we went wrong was getting on a boat. We can move, of course, change direction, rattle about, but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current ...
Tom Stoppard
#22. Sometimes life goes in a direction not of our choosing," said the minister, softly. "That's why we need to adapt. It's never too late to change direction.
Louise Penny
#23. You have to stop in order to change direction.
Erich Fromm
#24. I can look up in the air and see where the wind is gonna change direction.
Breaux Greer
#25. An attitude adjustment from the inside out is what it will take to get you to change direction. The truth is God is on your side, no matter how far you've wandered. He still loves you. He still needs you. Your sins don't define you. He does.
Toni Sorenson
#26. In the awareness that we can always be wrong, and therefore ready at any moment to change direction if a new track appears; but knowing also that if we are good enough we will get it right and will find what we are seeking. This is the nature of science. The
Carlo Rovelli
#27. You know how it feels right before a tornado hits? I mean when the sky's still clear, but the wind's starting to cool off and change direction. You know something's coming, but you don't always know what. That's how things feel to me right now. -Zoey Redbird
P.C. Cast
#28. There is an odd synchronicity in the way parallel lives veer to touch one another, change direction, and then come close again and again until they connect and hold for whatever it was that fate intended to happen.
Ann Rule
#29. I build the individual modules to meet a demand. If I need the music to change direction, I want to have the tools to be able to do that.
Keith Fullerton Whitman
#30. Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050
Paul Polman
#31. The ball is round so that the game can change direction
Sepp Herberger
#33. If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
Irwin Corey
#34. Every one of my works, when I'm looking back, becomes some kind of solution, or something to concentrate on. Something to pay attention to and maybe change direction.
Agnes Denes
#35. Start at the beginning," he said. "Move one step in the direction of your goal. Remember that you can change direction to maneuver around obstacles. You don't need a plan, you need a vector.
Cory Doctorow
#36. Making beautiful things for everyday use is a wonderful thing to do - making life flow more easily - but art confronts life, allowing it to stop and perhaps change direction - they are completely different.
Antony Gormley
#38. A change was coming over the world, the meaning and direction of which even still is hidden from us, a change from era to era. - Froude's History of England, ch. i.
William Hurrell Mallock
#39. Don't expect a time in your life when you'll be free from change, free from struggle, free from worry. To be resilient, you must understand that your objective is not to come to rest, because there is no rest. Your objective is to use what hits you to change your trajectory in a positive direction.
Eric Greitens
#40. There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself.
Lewis Carroll
#41. You and I are the creators and benefactors of peace. We must reclaim our own responsibility and right to peace. You have the power to change the direction of humanity towards peace.
Ilchi Lee
#42. Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It's fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.
Rand Paul
#43. The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.
Rudolf Arnheim
#44. Anyone playing with you is going to change where your direction is.
Charlie Hunter
#45. To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world.
Alan Cohen
#46. evolution is not progress, that there is no 'goal' or direction to evolution. Evolution is change. Evolution 'succeeds' if that change best adapts some leaf or branch of its tree of life to conditions of the universe.
Dan Simmons
#47. I believe the American people have the capacity to create a new movement, which would change the direction of our nation from being a military power to being a peaceful nation, using our enormous wealth for human needs, here and abroad.
Howard Zinn
#48. We are the third world not because the sun rises on the West and sets in the East but because we have engaged the reverse gear and we are moving with jet like speed in the wrong direction -we must change this by rolling up our sleeves and working for the growth of our country.
Patrick L.O. Lumumba
#49. A painting has its own existence and reality, and I make changes freely to meet the painting's needs. This sometimes takes me in another direction.
Mary Beth McKenzie
#51. If I come up with rules or limitations it focuses me in a direction. And those rules can change if you realize it's a dumb idea. You start to mutate it to see what fits best.
Trent Reznor
#53. History is the fiction we invent to persuade ourselves that events are knowable and that life has order and direction. That's why events are always reinterpreted when values change. We need new versions of history to allow for our current prejudices.
Bill Watterson
#54. We can change the direction of the country with our vote.
Roland Martin
#55. When decisively a new direction has come about in your life, you better take it or else you'll regret when it's too late and you can not change anything after that and if try you'll spend more than what you would've used at the first time.
Auliq Ice
#56. If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading ...
John C. Maxwell
#57. Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction.
Kellie Elmore
#58. It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change.
Andy Stanley
#59. For twelve school years, every morning, she had turned left out the front door to get to work. Now the taxi turned right, spiriting her off in the opposite direction.
Margot Lee Shetterly
#60. I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium.
Paul McCartney
#61. Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction.
Napoleon Hill
#62. All change is change for the better. There is no such thing as "change for the worse." Change is the process of Life Itself, and that process could be called by the name 'evolution.' And evolution moves in only one direction: forward, and toward improvement.
Neale Donald Walsch
#63. A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#64. But it is a very difficult thing to change the future.
The slightest turn of phrase ... action and the human soul.
The future changes direction based on those things.
CLAMP
#65. It's a long time until the next election, but it starts now. And if you truly want to see things change in the direction that our country is headed, you have to stay involved. You cannot quit now.
Deb Fischer
#66. If you want to change the direction of your life, change the declaration of your lips
Steven Furtick
#67. Forward movement is not helpful if what is needed is a change of direction.
David Fleming
#68. Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mist of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.
Margaret Thatcher
#69. Smash creative blocks. Change the problem or sneak up on it from a different direction. Try something fresh - a new way with an old theme, a different point of view, unusual tool.
Nita Leland
#70. Principle of Change #3: Vision gives change meaningful direction.
Brett Blumenthal
#71. When American soil could be seen from the ship, the passengers breathed a collective sigh of relief so strong, it caused a change of direction in the winds, which added a day to their trip, but no matter.
Leslye Walton
#72. Life's journey is but a series of steps. It only takes one step in a different direction to change that from good to bad, or from good to even better. Make sure your next step takes you in the right directions.
Jean Williams
#73. Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation.
Stephen Covey
#74. If I make a decision it is a possession. I take pride in it, I tend to defend it and not listen to those who question it. If I make sense, then this is more dynamic, and I listen and I can change it. A decision is something you polish. Sensemaking is a direction for the next period.
Paul Gleason
#75. I enjoy my life. I think I have a very good life. And I think I'm very satisfied with the direction of my career and just my lifestyle and everything like that. So I wouldn't change a single thing.
Macaulay Culkin
#76. Like a lot of people, I'm interested in public service and want to do as much as I can to change the direction of this country and will give some consideration to that after midterm elections.
John Thune
#77. This life is made to change all reality. We are here for the benefit, happiness, and welfare of a new reality; a new direction.
Gerry Lindgren
#78. Don't let money change your direction; that's the job of the giver of the money.
Israelmore Ayivor
#79. If the Rider isn't sure exactly what direction to go, he tends to lead the Elephant in circles. And as we'll see, that tendency explains the third and final surprise about change: What looks like resistance is often a lack of clarity.
Chip Heath
#80. You can't just suddenly change gears and reverse yourself or go to the left or the right because there is no left or right. There's always a certain direction that you're moving in.
Robert Barry
#81. Fate and destiny go hand in hand. It is impossible to change our destiny. Only the path upon which we walk to reach our destination alters. If we should stray from that path, fate will take control and guide us in the right direction.
J.A. Belfield
#82. I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper.
Doseone
#83. To be a catalyst is the ambition most appropriate for those who see the world as being in constant change, and who, without thinking that they control it, wish to influence its direction.
Theodore Zeldin
#84. Those who expect radical changes in policy and direction are mistaken and lost. The government of the fourth republic will build on what was undertaken by previous governments and will continue with all good things.
Jakaya Kikwete
#85. If there's any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it's that I'm on my feet. Now all I've got to do is alter my direction.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#86. If we don't change the direction we're going, we're likely to end up where we're headed. Ancient Chinese proverb
Stacey Hall
#87. One good conversation can shift the direction of change forever.
Linda Lambert
#89. If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going.
Jodi Picoult
#90. There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write.
Noel Gallagher
#91. When you can't seem to find happiness or peace in either direction you turn, maybe its time for self evaluation.
Auliq Ice
#92. We are changing all the time and this never changes.
It is not whether we change, it is how much and in what direction we change. These choices are ours can only be made by us
Ted Agon
#93. There is an unseen life that dreams us; it knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize, and we need have no fear of change.
John O'Donohue
#94. One's knowledge of karma should not be used to judge others. You should ask yourself: Do I like where I am going, or do I want to change my direction?
Sharon Gannon
#95. Trials always change our relationship with God. Either they drive us to Him, or they drive us away from Him. The extent of our fear of Him and our awareness of His love for us determine in which direction we will move.
Jerry Bridges
#96. I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged.
Jim DeMint
#97. To help create positive change in others, you must first find the catalyst for positive change in yourself," Mary Miller, Changing Direction: Ten Choices That Impact Your Dreams (Chapter 1).
Mary Miller
#98. Changing the direction of a large company is like trying to turn an aircraft carrier. It takes a mile before anything happens. And if it was a wrong turn, getting back on course takes even longer.
Al Ries
#99. Coaches must take calculated risks all the time. One thing is to talk about what you plan to do and another is to prepare and then execute a plan toward change.
George M. Gilbert
#100. Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Denis Waitley
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