Top 100 Change People Quotes
#1. I'm out to change people's attitudes about them. Wolves are a whole lot more than just predators who feast on a rancher's herd. They're smart and clever and loyal and courageours, and sometimes they do really stupid, silly things, just like people.
R.C. Ryan
#2. You can't change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it ...
Richard Bandler
#3. I have gotten better at being patient and sitting with discomfort. Before I would worry and try to fix an issue and force circumstances to change or try to change people's minds sooner than was realistic. Now I wait and trust that everything passes and time really does heal everything.
China Forbes
#4. I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.
Helena Bonham Carter
#5. Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.
Charles Colson
#6. You don't change people's hearts by making them suffer. You harm yourself as well as them.
Anne Douglas Sedgwick
#7. Passion is caring enough about your art that you will do almost anything to give it away, to make it a gift, to change people.
Seth Godin
#8. Things don't change, people change.
Jim Rohn
#9. I've come up against a few challenges. I've just taken them on with a really pure energy. I'm not out to change people's minds. I'm out to maybe educate and inspire.
Meredith Brooks
#10. 'The Magic Flute,' I think, is fundamentally asking what is it to change people's consciousness.
Simon McBurney
#11. If we would change the world, we must first change people's thoughts.
David O. McKay
#12. I just believed. I believed that the technology would change people's lives. I believed putting real identity online - putting technology behind real identity - was the missing link.
Sheryl Sandberg
#13. You can't change people but you can effect a change in them by your behavior.
Garrison Wynn
#14. We must go through a natural revolution if we are to survive on earth. We need to change people's perceptions. If there's no environment, there's no human race. We are in a state of global denial.
Ted Turner
#15. History tends to change people who think they're changing it.
Terry Pratchett
#17. We can change people only by becoming their friends, not by becoming their enemies! Make friends with people so that you may be able to change them!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#18. But things change, people change - as do perceptions of people, and now I answer in a language that I hope my teenage self will understand.
Ali Harris
#19. Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.
Zayn Malik
#20. It's impossible to change people who have their mind set on who they are.
Anna Todd
#21. We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
Jay-Z
#22. The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.
Thomas A. Edison
#23. Funny how a little politeness can change people's minds.
Sherman Alexie
#25. But things change, people change, Gaby. Otherwise what would be the point of living?
Soheir Khashoggi
#26. I think that's what the war photography did for me. It showed me the human side of people and how certain circumstances can change people's lives.
Jamel Shabazz
#27. I hope I helped change people's preconceptions about 'Page 3' girls by appearing on Newsnight and at the Oxford Union debate.
Peta Todd
#28. Lots of words are said in the heat of the moment, or when it's dark. But then daylight comes and things change. People change.
Felice Stevens
#29. I haven't the slightest idea how to change people, but still I keep a long list of prospective candidates just in case I should ever figure it out.
David Sedaris
#30. I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show.
Boris Johnson
#31. I am not here to teach martial arts, but to change people's lives!
Carlos Machado
#32. There will be no guilt, no repentance, because these things never change people. People remain the same; they just go on changing their outer garb, their form. Substantially, nothing changes through guilt, through fear,
Osho
#33. I believe that artistic activities change people. You do effect change. I see architecture as a political, social and cultural act - that is its primary role.
Thom Mayne
#34. People get it wrong when they talk about innocence: they think it's something to do with ignorance about the facts of sex and all the nasty things that happen in the world. But facts don't change people: it's understanding how the facts feel that does.
Alexia Casale
#35. late for that," said Major Zima. "Besides, if there's one thing I've learned doing Civil Affairs in Iraq, it's that it's hard to come in and change people's culture.
Phil Klay
#36. Times change, people change, thoughts about good and evil change, about true and false. But what always remains fast and steady is the affection that your friends feel for you, those who always have your best interest at heart.
Margot Frank
#37. If you want to change people's minds, you've got to talk to their elephants.
Jonathan Haidt
#38. I don't do anything to try to change people's perceptions of me. I tend to think that's sort of an ego driven thing.
Steve Carell
#39. Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.
Liz Murray
#40. An American Idol is someone who knows how to change people's lives through music.
Anwar Robinson
#41. You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.
Brandi Carlile
#42. Wouldn't it be easier to change people's eyes and hair than to build big furnaces and then catch Jews and Gypsies to burn them?
Jerzy Kosinski
#43. Complaining doesn't change people ... All that complain, this is terrible ... It's not so terrible.
Alice Herz-Sommer
#44. Music can change the world because it can change people.
Bono
#45. People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines ... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters.
Bill Gates
#46. The goal is always the same. I want to change people's lives and bring them closer to the Lord in a new way. I want to confront them with an issue.
Frank E. Peretti
#47. Much as you would like, you are not going to change people who feel it's part of their religious commitment to 'save' you.
Jeanne Phillips
#48. You can't change people; you can only change yourself when expecting any change.
Robin Sacredfire
#49. There's a thing in music that wants to change people. A thing that speaks to the soul. And there's a thing in people that listens, and changes when the music speaks.
Katherine Lampe
#50. Always choose influence rather than power. It helps change people into people who can change the world.
Jonathan Sacks
#51. I do not have much confidence in the political system and never did. My goal has always been to change people's minds because as long as people demand more government, they will get it.
Ron Paul
#52. I believe that in any initiative, you can't have a flavor of the month. When you believe something is profound in a company, you can not be a logical leader. You have to go to the lunatic fringe. There is no way that logic is what you need to change people.
Jack Welch
#53. The job of a professional manager is not to like people. It is not to change people. It is to put their strengths to work.
Peter Drucker
#54. Typecasting is an interesting thing because, in a way, if you're good at something, you're going to work at that thing. In other ways, you constantly have to change people's opinion of you as one thing, especially if you want to play different roles. You have to shatter that image sometimes.
Aaron Tveit
#55. It's people wanting to do something about global climate change. People fed up with the high price of gas. People tired of breathing dirty air. In Houston, Los Angeles, Bakersfield, and other cities. It's going to be a critical mass of people experiencing something.
Ed Begley Jr.
#56. I don't care for the applause one gets by saying what others are thinking; I want actually to change people's thoughts. Power over people's minds is the main personal desire of my life; and this sort of power is not acquired by saying popular things.
Bertrand Russell
#58. Every morning you have the economic news from all over the world, from television, radio, the Internet, and an hour later the news changes and the numbers change. People run fast from one place to another, which is very risky because they don't have enough time to think.
Costa-Gavras
#59. It's not our job to make people like us if they don't want to. It's not our job to change people. That's beyond our control. But what you CAN control is how you respond to it.
Taylor Swift
#60. They may surprise you. Traumatic events change people. Makes them say and do unexpected things. So
Harper Bliss
#61. You cannot expect soldiers to change people's minds. That has to be done in other ways.
Mike Jackson
#62. Books don't change people; paragraphs do, Sometimes even sentences.
John Piper
#63. I can only look at the seemingly limited space under the tent and think either it's my job to change people so they fit or it's my job to extend the roof so that they fit. Either way, it's misguided because it's not my tent. It's God's tent.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
#64. Seasons change, people grow together and apart, life moves on. You will be OK, embrace it.
Alexandra Elle
#65. RVM Thoughts for Today
You may not be able to change People's Actions , but you can choose your own Reactions.
R.v.m.
#66. Mental illness didn't really change people. It just made them more of who they were going to be anyway. Mental illness was less like obliteration, more like italics.
Heather Sellers
#67. We can do our best to change people, to summon them to be whom they are capable of being, but ultimately they only people we will always have the power to change will be ourselves.
Harold S. Kushner
#68. Music used to change people's minds - and it still changes mine.
Rosanna Arquette
#69. I've spent so much of my youth trying to change people or change girls and then having it done to me and people wanting me to change.
Chris Messina
#70. I think we're at a time where people just want to join together and cause change. People don't want to live like this any more.
Charlize Theron
#71. It's not an artist's job to change people or save the world.
Marty Rubin
#72. People don't change under governments. Governments change. People remain the same.
Will Rogers
#75. I am a director because I believe in my own impulses and my own point of view, and that belief encourages me to tell stories that will move, provoke, and change people. But I became a director because I wanted to be a part of the world.
Anna D. Shapiro
#76. Mindfulness promises a great number of desirable benefits, and is based on much more solid research than many competing ideas on how to change people.
Paul Gibbons
#77. Things change, people change, but that doesn't mean you should forget the past.
Gail Carson Levine
#78. I am becoming aware of the truth that people change people as much as ideas change people.The power of personality is strong ... often personality is greater than the idea.
Billy Graham
#79. The things that change people's lives are usually an accumulation of small acts.
Tom Rath
#80. There's something to be said for giving and helping to change people's lives.
Steven A. Cohen
#81. To wipe out abuse is not enough; you have to change people's whole outlook. The mill is no longer standing, but the wind's still there, blowing away.
Victor Hugo
#82. Stories change people while statistics give them something to argue about.
Bernie Siegel
#83. You cannot change people but you can change the system so that people are not pushed into doing evil things.
Slavoj Zizek
#86. I felt the most effective way to change people's perception was through the power of images.
Alix Smith
#87. Books can move people, inspire people, change people's lives, and even impact whole societies. They are certainly worth spending an afternoon with.
Jan Surasky
#88. Technology doesn't change people's basic needs or their natures.
Priya Ardis
#89. I don't write on topics that require a lot of urgency. But in 'Stiff,' I wanted to change people's hearts about organ donation. Whenever I get a chance, I try to talk about that.
Mary Roach
#90. The only person to change, is yourself. As you change, all the conditions around you will change! People will change! When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.
Florence Scovel Shinn
#91. I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.
Seamus Heaney
#92. My philosophy has always been to try to put myself into roles and films that are different. That intensified after 'Lord of the Rings' because it was so massive, but it's something I've always believed in, wanting to change people's perceptions and challenge myself as an actor.
Elijah Wood
#93. It feels nice to be loved, but let me tell you there are 10 times more better looking, stylish and talented guys than me. So there's no solid reason for me to be proud! I don't think I have done anything extraordinary to change people's lives.
Salman Khan
#95. We clutch that picture to our hearts because we expect each other to always be the people in that picture. But people change. People aren't pictures. And you can either take a new picture or throw the old one away.
Pleasefindthis
#96. It was the lyrics from PartyNextDoor's song Come and See Me featuring Drake: "I'll admit I'm sorry when I feel I'm truly sorry. Things change, people change, feelings change, too. Never thought the circumstances would've changed you.
Bree
#97. Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.
Norman Lear
#98. I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.
Seth Godin
#99. Things change, people change,
change is the inevitable laws of nature exacting its toll on lives.
Nicholas Sparks
#100. Pop music has greater power to change people and to affect people because it's a universal language. You don't have to understand music to understand the power of a pop song.
Paul Epworth
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