I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.
Stephen Hawking

Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Stephen Hawking

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure , the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart

Focus on your problem zones, your strength, your energy, your flexibility and all the rest. Maybe your chest is flabby or your hips or waist need toning. Also, you should change your program every thirty days. That's the key.
Jack LaLanne

Sometimes if you want to see a change for the better, you have to take things into your own hands.
Clint Eastwood

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.
Gilda Radner

I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my shadow does that much better.
Plutarch

What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality.
Plutarch

Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves.
Blaise Pascal

I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.
Woody Allen

Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
Soren Kierkegaard

Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey

A small group of thoughtful people could change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.
Margaret Mead

Science arose from poetry... when times change the two can meet again on a higher level as friends.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I told you I'm not going to criticize my successor. I'll just tell you that there are people at Gitmo that will kill American people at a drop of a hat and I don't believe that persuasion isn't going to work. Therapy isn't going to cause terrorists to change their mind.
George W. Bush

Men do change, and change comes like a little wind that ruffles the curtains at dawn, and it comes like the stealthy perfume of wildflowers hidden in the grass.
John Steinbeck