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

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

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

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

We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis

People got insights into what was bothering them, but they hardly did a damn thing to change.
Albert Ellis

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

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

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

The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr

God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold Niebuhr

Winners must learn to relish change with the same enthusiasm and energy that we have resisted it in the past.
Tom Peters

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Tom Peters

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
Charles Darwin

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

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