Top 100 A Person Can Change Quotes
#1. The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.
Oprah Winfrey
#2. Luce," Jude said, stopping me, "I get what a piece of shit I am, and it's not awful or unfair or incorrect for people to call me out on what I am. But I'd like to think a person can change, and I swear to you I'm going to try to leave me piece of shitedness behind.
Nicole Williams
#3. A person can change their ways but not their heart
K'wan
#4. A person can change the way he talks, but not the way he sneezes. A person can turn single-fold eyelids into double folds, but the greatest plastic surgeon alive cannot change the look in a man's eyes.
Mo Yan
#5. Thank you Jonah."
He lowers his head at the break in my voice. I ignore the moisture in his eyes and pretend that mine don't sting.
"For what?" he whispers.
" For showing me that people can change. Even if it is one person out of a million.
Katie McGarry
#6. Every person and everything can change the destiny of every other person and every other thing, in a good or in a bad way! We are all destiny makers; everything is a destiny maker!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#7. People cannot change people. Only God can get inside a person's heart and cause him or her to want to change.
Joyce Meyer
#8. The person with a safe center doesn't fear change. We can choose change without fear before a challenge only when we are strongly centered.
Ilchi Lee
#9. I can't help but be a different person now that I've had kids. That really does change your whole perspective on life for the better.
Jennifer Lopez
#10. You can't change where you from. You can't take a person out of their zone and expect them to be somebody else now that they in the record industry. It's gonna take years. Years of travelling. Years of meeting people. Years of seeing the world.
Kendrick Lamar
#11. You can perceive a person's aspiration if it is genuine, because this creates a change in the emanations from such a person.
Idries Shah
#12. We can change so many times in our lives. We're born into a family, and it's the only life we can imagine, but it changes. Buildings collapse. Fires burn. And the next second we're someplace else entirely, going through different motions and trying to keep up with this new person we've become.
Lauren DeStefano
#13. I don't know how one minute, a person can think his life is nothing more than a barren valley with nothing left to look forward to. Then, in the blink of an eye, someone can come along and change it with a simple smile.
Colleen Hoover
#14. People's name can change throughout their lives the same way people do. They believe nicknames provide insight into not just the individual but how other people perceive that person. People become a double prism, instead of a one-way mirror.
Cecelia Ahern
#15. I know its a kick in the pants to hear that the problem is you, but it's also fucking fantastic. You are, after all, the only person you can change.
Cheryl Strayed
#16. It hurts almost more than I can bear. Tears sting my eyes again; I wipe them away impatiently. I am so tired of crying, so tired of feeling like half a person, but I don't know how to change things... (I have never felt so lost and alone.)
Kristin Hannah
#17. I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's position on climate change? No, it's not. On most of these issues, I can see both sides.
Rachel Maddow
#18. There are a few of us who have latched on to this silly idea that we can change the world. We will develop the power to ignore what is popular and do what is right. One person can attain the power to lead hundreds of thousands of people to the promised land of their dreams.
Andy Andrews
#19. If life is such a painful experience and we can't change that, why can't this person just be allowed to die?
Jo Nesbo
#20. One person can come along and change your life, and that being a misfit, as I was, doesn't mean you won't find friends and your place in the world.
Amy Hill Hearth
#21. It's odd, I think, how the thing you love most in a person can also be the thing you sometimes wish you could change
Julie Eshbaugh
#22. You can change a person's life in an instant; put him in a movie, and you start thinking differently, you want to be in another movie. It's like an addiction almost.
Dennis Farina
#23. A piece of information can change a person. I'd hate to change the way I'm supposed to live the future.
Samantha Young
#24. It's funny how life can change so much but still nothing changes at all. Or maybe it's that life changes, but you as a person don't or maybe we adjust, but don't actually change.
Lights
#25. The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find
someone whose flaws are the sort you don't mind. It is
futile to look for someone who has no flaws, or someone
who is capable of significant change; that sort of person
exists only in our imaginations.
Scott Adams
#26. You can have a similar experience in your own life. You can change, even if you consider yourself a "night person" ... Almost any habit-good or bad-can be set in about twenty-one days. With firm resolve, we can make the needed changes in our lives.
Joe J. Christensen
#27. If you want to do something that really changes someone's life, the best thing you can do is make the person you're trying to help a participant in the process.
John Stahl-Wert
#28. We must remember that one determined person can make a significant difference, and that a small group of determined people can change the course of history.
Sonia Johnson
#29. You can't rush the progression of a person. It has to be done in their own time. You can push a person to change, but the only time the change will stick is when it's something they want to achieve on their own.
Belle Aurora
#30. A true soul mate is a mirror, the person who shows you everything that's holding you back, the person who brings you to your own attention so you can change your life. A true soul mate is probably the most important person you'll ever meet, because they tear down your walls and smack you awake.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#31. In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
Carl R. Rogers
#32. A person who is psychic is following a line of probability to see a probable future; but it can change. Another causal fact will interfere and that future won't happen.
Frederick Lenz
#33. Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.
Lemony Snicket
#34. I can't believe I only knew you for a year and a half - how can one person change you in two football seasons? But you did.
Heather Demetrios
#35. I think sometimes just being silent and watching can change a person.
Shannon Hale
#36. There is no difference between the person who wishes he can change his bad character and did not and the person who never wished for it. Wishes alone don't change the world!
Israelmore Ayivor
#37. A person can run for years but sooner or later he has to take a stand in the place which, for better or worse, he calls home, and do what he can to change things there.
Paule Marshall
#38. Patience is an unfailing remedy for friction in personal relations. Even if a person has never won a beauty contest, has no money in the bank, can't even change a flat tire, if he or she has inexhaustible patience, then we will find that life with such a person will never grow stale.
Eknath Easwaran
#39. Every turning point in a person's life isn't reached by luck, they choose to be successful, they know what it takes to be there, they can do what is expected of them to do, they do not show trepidation about the requirements needed to be on top
Michael Bassey Johnson
#40. Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
Jasper Fforde
#41. I'm not going to change the world overnight. It's one person at a time, and hopefully they're people in positions of power who can help people get in those roles and really, truly embrace colorblind casting.
Gabrielle Union
#42. Never judge others. You both know good and well how unexpected events can change who a person is. Always keep that in mind. You never know what someone else is experiencing within their own life.
Colleen Hoover
#43. She would be a new person, she vowed. They said no matter how far a mule travels it can never come back a horse, but she would show them all.
Junot Diaz
#44. It's never too late to find that one person who can change you, for a reason, a season or a lifetime.
Skye High
#45. That is what happens when a person lives alone for so long - no one else can change their ways.
Catherynne M Valente
#46. If you just change one person's life, you feel like you've done something. But if you can change a whole lot of them and get them looking at themselves differently, it's amazing.
Debbie Allen
#47. How can I ever repay you for what you've given me? A daily opportunity to change the world for the better simply by spending time with the person I love the most.
Dallas Clayton
#48. Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally.
Gloria Gaither
#49. You can't fundamentally change a person, and some actions are certainties, doomed to be repeated. If fate exists, then it pertains only to people. The fact that we are stubborn is often our undoing.
Ryan Daff
#50. Only a changed person can live according to the law.
Sunday Adelaja
#51. Excuse me?" I asked. I always say "excuse me" even though I heard perfectly well what the person said. I feel that by saying "excuse me," I'm giving them a chance to realize they're being an asshole, and they can change their attitude for the second attempt.
Jen Mann
#52. How much change can a person absorb before everything loses meaning Living for its own sake isn't life. People need meaning as much as they need air.
Daniel H. Wilson
#53. A writer once said that it is not time that changes man, nor knowledge; the only thing that can change someone's mind is love. What nonsense! The person who wrote that clearly knew only one side of the coin.
Paulo Coelho
#54. Making this a better world happens one person at a time. You cannot force your beliefs on anyone. Rather, be the example that others can emulate. Live your life so that others may be inspired by your words and deeds. That's how change happens.
Tom Giaquinto
#55. I couldn't function if I weren't allowed to stretch and do really different characters where I can change the whole "beingness" of that person. That's my pleasure in acting and has been since I was a kid. That's always been my pleasure to create complete characters.
John Travolta
#56. Losing the only thing you care about can change a person irrevocably.
Kirsty Moseley
#57. You can change a person in their exterior aspects, but the soul remains, it still is there, and especially if that person has been changed involuntarily.
Antonio Banderas
#58. The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.
Donald Miller
#59. Only by entering new and unfamiliar worlds can a person change society as well as self.
Bill Courtney
#60. No one can make the album they made 10 years ago with a straight face. There are two reasons: one is you change as a person. To be a true artist, I have to be true to who I am now and write that way. And the second thing is these are different times.
Brad Paisley
#61. The quickest way to change the world is to be of service to others. Show that your love can make a difference in the lives of people and thereby someone else's love can make a difference in your life. By each of us doing that and working together we change the world one inner person at a time.
Dannion Brinkley
#62. Ariel: "Why do such stories always sound so sad? Why can't people part on more amiable terms?"
Danny: "Human nature," he said. "When feelings change and a person is at their most insecure, it's a matter of personal survival, I think. It's not always meant to hurt, but it often does.
Judith-Victoria Douglas
#63. Humans have learned to split the atom. Instead of killing ten or twenty people with a wooden club, one person can now kill a million just by pushing a button. Is that real change?
Eckhart Tolle
#64. Despair ... is the only cure for illusion. Without despair we cannot transfer our allegiance to reality - it's a kind of mourning period for our fantasies. Some people do not survive this despair, but no major change within a person can occur without it.
Philip Slater
#65. Take a close look at nature and you'll see that every living creature is wired for mutation and variation. The fact that people can say, "I'm not the same person I used to be," is the greatest of all miracles.
Toni Sorenson
#66. Education truly can change a person's story, it gave me everything. Whatever happens, get an # education .
Atiku Abubakar
#67. One of the most valuable gifts that a person can give (or receive) is a productive mentality. It is with a productive mentality that people change their lives for the better, in ways profound.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#68. Sometimes something catastrophic can occur in a split second that changes a person's life forever; other times one minor incident can lead to another and then another and another, eventually setting off just as big a change in a body's life.
Jeannette Walls
#69. I do think that you can dress yourself out of a problem. The way that a haircut and a new pair of pants can make you feel is better than any therapist, because when you look in the mirror, you see a different person - you are a different person. It's superficial change that can lead to real change.
Greg Behrendt
#71. One person can have a profound effect on another. And two people ... well, two people can work miracles. They can change a whole town. They can change the world.
Andrew Schneider
#72. To make a difference in the world, it only takes one optimistic person, who can gather millions of people to make the change.
Gia Russell
#73. More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#74. I just feel like I'm such a normal person in an industry that is so chaotic and crazy. I am what I am, and I can't change it. And I don't want to change it.
Vicky McClure
#75. I think your alcohol intake has to change. You know, usually a big person feels they can drink anything they want to and as much as they want to and I've cut that way back.
Mike Ditka
#76. One of his friends, a marketing professor at Stanford, said, "Think about this from a marketing perspective. We can change behavior in a short television ad. We don't do it with information. We do it with identity: 'If I buy a BMW, I'm going to be this kind of person.
Chip Heath
#77. No one can change a person, but a person can be the reason someone changes.
Shannon L. Alder
#78. With one kind gesture you can change a life. One person at a time you can change the world. One day at a time we can change everything.
Steve Maraboli
#79. When you're a beautiful person on the inside, there is nothing in the world that can change that about you.
Sasha Azevedo
#80. How then can you bring lasting change to your world? By building character and skill in the life of one person at a time. Then by enabling them to "pass it on"- to build the character and skill of another, and another,
Donald G. Doty
#81. In order to change the world, I guess a person would have to really get his head together first before he can say anything to the world, to change it.
Jimi Hendrix
#82. One
person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You
don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in
your power to change things.
Norman Vincent Peale
#83. Every single achievement you make, every single life you change and every single skill you acquire brings you one step closer to becoming a better leader. Every day you can improve the leader in you to become a better person and a greater leader.
Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum
#84. And I don't just mean that they change you. A lot of people can change you - the first kid who called you a name, the first teacher who said you were smart, the first person who crowned you best friend. It's the change you remember, the firsts and what they meant, not really the people.
Sara Zarr
#85. To judge is to believe that a person is capable of doing better. It's to know that people can change their behavior, even quite radically in response to what is expected of them.
Larissa MacFarquhar
#86. Love is a dangerous thing, it can be great and it can be awful. It might make or break your life. It could even change you as a person.
Shannon Leto
#87. I kind of see myself as a cartoon that's on its way to becoming a real person that has to find that special amulet or mushroom to get to that next realm or level. I don't feel like anything is that tangible. It freaks me out, why I feel unhappy or conflicted and why that can change on a dime.
Carly Pope
#88. Everybody can write a beginning and an ending, but to actually define that middle point where everything will go from professional to person, where everything will change, is always the hardest part, because it can very easily be too constructed, too artificial.
Tobias Lindholm
#89. Who am I? I'm a man, an American, a father, a teacher, but most of all, I am a person who knows how the arts can change lives, because they transformed mine. I was a dancer.
Jacques D'Amboise
#90. Literature is indispensable to the world. The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you alter, even by a millimeter, the way a person looks at reality, then you can change it.
James Baldwin
#91. We are working hard to build a service that everyone, everywhere can use, whether they are a person, a company, a president or an organisation working for change
Mark Zuckerberg
#92. Her Brooklyn accent only comes out when she's angry. This is the best part ... I pick at my pancakes while she tells me, simply, "It's ok to change your mind." About a feeling, a person, a promise of love. I can't stay just to avoid contradicting myself. I don't have to watch him cry.
Lena Dunham
#93. Love is a feeling which you can't change but its change you,
Beloved is a person whom you can't replace with anyone
but you replace your wishes with his or her wishes
Mohammed Zaki Ansari
#94. I am a person of action. If I see I can bring a positive change, I will go for it, never mind that something might be hard to achieve.
Dalia Grybauskaite
#95. Poverty can turn a person into a flaming torch for change and revolution, without which mankind would come to a standstill.
Jean Sasson
#96. A word of encouragement from a teacher to a child can change a life. A word of encouragement from a spouse can save a marriage. A word of encouragement from a leader can inspire a person to reach her potential.
John C. Maxwell
#97. So you believe people can't change? That once you do a bad thing, you're a bad person?"
"I don't know," I admit."But I do think that some stains never wash out.
Jodi Picoult
#98. If a person with a bullet in Dallas can change the world, imagine a person with an idea could do.
J. Michael Straczynski
#99. You can't really change somebody completely, deep inside your nature. But I think what I did was admit to myself what kind of a person I was, and sort of get into the idea that that's who I was. And I think preserving that part of myself really helps me make movies.
Takashi Miike
#100. When it's good, cinema can be one of the most important things in a person's life. A film can be a catalyst for change. You witness this and it is an incredibly spiritual experience that I'd never lived before; well, maybe only in a football match.
Gael Garcia Bernal
