The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.
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.
Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.
The entrepreneur always searches for change, responds to it, and exploits it as an opportunity.
The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.
My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.
I think it's naive to pray for world peace if we're not going to change the form in which we live.
Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.
It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically different circumstances is only the form in which these laws expose themselves.
No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.
People are always looking for the single magic bullet that will totally change everything. There is no single magic bullet.
Each child is an adventure into a better life - an opportunity to change the old pattern and make it new.
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.
Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits and then complain that he's not the man she married?
We are not victims of aging, sickness and death. These are part of scenery, not the seer, who is immune to any form of change. This seer is the spirit, the expression of eternal being.
In too many instances, the march to globalization has also meant the marginalization of women and girls. And that must change.
Often times when you face such an overwhelming challenge as global climate change, it can be somewhat daunting - it's kind of like trying to lose weight, which I know something about.
I'm one of those people who thinks that changing one's hair is the only part of the body that you can change at will.
I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.
Vision without action is merely a dream. Action without vision just passes the time. Vision with action can change the world.
I am an optimist because I want to change things for the better and I know that blood has to be spilled and disharmony and cruelty are necessary to do that.
It's good for everyone to understand that they are to love their enemies, simply because your enemies show you things about yourself you need to change. So in actuality enemies are friends in reverse.
All conservatism is based upon the idea that if you leave things alone you leave them as they are. But you do not. If you leave a thing alone you leave it to a torrent of change.
Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Policies are many, Principles are few, Policies will change, Principles never do.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.
As a rock star, I have two instincts, I want to have fun, and I want to change the world. I have a chance to do both.
It is evident that skepticism, while it makes no actual change in man, always makes him feel better.
If we go on the way we have, the fault is our greed and if we are not willing to change, we will disappear from the face of the globe, to be replaced by the insect.
The 'self-image' is the key to human personality and human behavior. Change the self image and you change the personality and the behavior.
You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
The only difference between me and others is that they think they can change something with cute little poems, nice cards or embracing trees and being nice to little lapdogs.
Since change is constant, you wonder if people crave death because it's the only way they can get anything really finished.