Top 62 Quotes About Those Who Cannot Change
#2. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. - George Bernard Shaw
Wayne W. Dyer
#3. Without Messi there isn't a team for Argentina, Messi is brilliant, different, with a strong mentality. Let's hope he doesn't change.
Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva
#4. What has been seen cannot be unseen, what has been learned cannot be unknown. You cannot change the past, but you can learn from it. You can grow from it. You can be made stronger. You can use that strength to change your life, to change your future.
C.A. Woolf
#5. As human beings we do change, grow, adapt, perhaps even learn and become wiser.
Wendy Carlos
#6. Each returning soldier is an in-the-flesh memoir of war. Their chapters might vary, but similar imagery fills the pages, and the theme of every book is the same
profound change. The big question became, could I live with that kind of change?
Ellen Hopkins
#7. It's life, that's all. There are no happy endings, just happy days, happy moments. The only real ending is death, and trust me, no one dies happy. And the price of not dying is that things change all the time, and the only thing you can count on is that there's not a thing you can do about it.
Jonathan Tropper
#8. No marriage stays in the same pattern forever. It is both the best feature of marriage and the worst, that it inevitably changes.
Lisa Kleypas
#9. If someone tied me down and made me answer the question, singer, actress, clothing designer, I most likely - it could change on any given day, but mostly likely I would lean towards singing. It's where I feel most like myself - on stage singing.
Mandy Moore
#10. It's amazing how books change. The chapter you're working on today would not have been the same if you wrote it yesterday or tomorrow.
Raymond Bolton
#11. Yet, despite our many advances, our environment is still threatened by a range of problems, including global climate change, energy dependence on unsustainable fossil fuels, and loss of biodiversity.
Dan Lipinski
#12. Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.
Marilyn Manson
#13. The materialist doctrine that men are products of circumstances and upbringing, and that, therefore, changed men are products of other circumstances and changed upbrinding, forgets that it is men that change circumstances and that the educator himself needs educating.
Karl Marx
#14. Perhaps God gives us a physical body so that every time we change our mind, we won't be someone else.
Robert Breault
#16. We can change the world with every thought we have and every word we speak.
Alberto Villoldo
#17. I think of all the choices I never knew. And those I let be made for me - to please, from fear, for love. Where did they disappear to, those choices that I never made? They are all part of who I am. They are the legacy I leave behind, they are the finished portrait of myself I cannot change.
Liv Ullmann
#18. All these many-coloured feelings fell... like light on a black surface, producing no change, meeting no return.
Catharine Maria Sedgwick
#19. You know, I consistently change in my own life so the roles I'm suitable for also change, and that's a really nice thing about this profession.
Chris Klein
#20. You can effect a change of robbers every four years. Inestimable privilege to pull off the glutted leech and attach the lean one! And you cannot even choose among the lean leeches, but must accept those designated by the programmers and showmen who have the reptiles on tap.
Ambrose Bierce
#21. It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
Paddy Ashdown
#22. Not so, however, with books, for books cannot change. A thousand years hence they are what you find them to-day, speaking the same words, holding forth the same cheer, the same promise, the same comfort; always constant, laughing with those who laugh and weeping with those who weep.
Eugene Field
#23. I have learned to accept the things I don't approve and those I cannot change and I have learned to release and to love those who did the most hurtful things in my life. I must admit, it is the most difficult lesson to contain but it's worth it.
Euginia Herlihy
#24. The power of a bold idea uttered publicly in defiance of dominant opinion cannot be easily measured. Those special people who speak out in such a way as to shake up not only the self-assurance of their enemies, but the complacency of their friends, are precious catalysts for change.
Howard Zinn
#25. What you are comes from the blood of those who set you on this journey. That is likewise unchangeable. What you see in the reflecting pool of truth is who you are. You cannot change that, so it is wise not to curse it. The wiser choice is to embrace it and make it your strength.
Joseph M. Marshall III
#26. To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us.
Pope Francis
#27. The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions - even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do.
Timothy Snyder
#28. Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives, power to retell it, to rethink it, deconstruct it...and change it as time changes...cannot think new thoughts.
Linda Mornell
#29. There are no circumstances in the world that determined action cannot alter, unless, perhaps, they are the walls of a prison cell, and even those will dissolve and change, I am told, into the infirmary compartment, at any rate, for the man who can fast with resolution.
H.G.Wells
#30. Everyone cannot like you. Don't waste your time trying to change those who do not. Just be you.
Stella Oladiran
#31. People who complain about something that they cannot do anything about are as irritating as those who complain about something that they can do something about.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#32. There are those who simply want to live their lives, and feel they cannot live the way they want to in Iran. Others are ideologically motivated: They will stay no matter what and try to change things.
Asghar Farhadi
#33. God is the burden crusher and the freedom fighter. He has the power to change lives.
Tina Samples
#34. Politics, poverty, riches, etc - these are but backdrops for the grand cinema, the opera: the glory of your life. Sure, change the backdrops, make them better, but it is this inside-ness that matters most. Nothing else, at the last breath, matters, but your very own poetry. The glory of living.
Alex Ebert
#35. A great many problems could be solved by nothing more than a change in thinking.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#36. 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.
Robert Mugabe
#37. Dwelling in failure won't change anything nor will it create a good outcome.
Yunho
#38. Strong communities ... embrace change. New discoveries require us to think differently and approach things differently, to think anew.
Tom Vilsack
#39. Getting into the Hall of Fame won't change me. I'm still going to pass gas and pick my nose like I always do.
Bert Blyleven
#40. I think we should all be accountable to our parties, but I also think that accountability should be a process of engagement: that MPs do engage with their constituency parties, do engage with their constituents, and MPs do change their minds on things because of local opinion.
Jeremy Corbyn
#41. No status change, we hold our fire.
Just Josh
#42. Life is change, how it differs from the rocks.
Paul Kantner
#43. If we can't alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.
Peter David
#44. One of the findings that really interests me is that, although we think we ACT because of the way we FEEL, we often FEEL because of the way we ACT. So an almost uncanny way to change your feelings is to act the way you WISH you felt.
Gretchen Rubin
#45. For if there was to be any transformation in the spiritual orientation of the pilgrim's soul, that change would take place not on arrival as if by magic, but in the long, hard work of The Way.
Stephen R. Lawhead
#46. You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change.
Montel Williams
#47. You've got my come drying between your thighs right fucking now. And bruises in the shape of my fingers on your body. You. Are. Mine. And there's nothing you can say or do to change that. Don't fucking test me, my bella, because I'm running out of patience.
Jessica Prince
#48. Be aware, then, that every human condition is subject to change, and that whatever mishap can befall any man can also happen to you.
Seneca.
#49. When you change your thinking, you change actions, when you change your action you change your future.
Zig Ziglar
#51. Kennedy saw the presidency as the vital center of government, and a president's primary goal as galvanizing commitments to constructive change. He aimed to move the country and the world toward a more peaceful future, not just through legislation but through inspiration.
Robert Dallek
#52. So much of what folks want in the world turns out to be just a thing they say. Words change the way you feel for a small time and that just about goes as far as it can go toward being a true thing.
Robert Bausch
#53. Excessive drinking is not good for my health, my family or my game. There has definitely been a change, and I feel better for it.
Ernie Els
#54. I wouldn't change anything. I think that it's important to let things happen, and stay 'happened'. I think that's all part of the learning curve, part of fate. I'm just glad that it happened.
Mike Peters
#55. The 'fear of change' excuse is something you see trotted out by organizations or management that believe customers are old, stupid, ignorant, and stubborn.
Ian Lamont
#56. Take control of your future by taking a choice of starting it right now.
Auliq Ice
#58. Yes, I will probably be that way. I am sure I will. I think that it shouldn't stop you. I think of course my life is going to change, and I definitely will make sacrifices, but you know, I think I will be able to bring hopefully my little rider with me.
Beyonce Knowles
#59. I never expected anyone in my family to change, and especially not my father, who changed first and most profoundly: He died.
Melissa Bank
#61. We have some decisions to make. You'd just be going back and forth to his room to report when you might as well take all his objections at once and be done with it. The decisions aren't going to change.
Erin Kellison
#62. Placing the blame or judgment on someone else leaves you powerless to change your experience; taking responsibility for your beliefs and judgments gives you the power to change them
Byron Katie