Quotes About Trying To Change People

#1. Sometimes the best solution is to stop trying to change people.

Jeffrey Fry

#2. I'm a social writer in the sense that I want to record, but not in the sense of trying to change people's minds.

Horton Foote

#3. 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

#4. We created a new kind of agency ... We had to retrain our people. But the corporations that will be successful will be those that are willing to change.

Howard Draft

#5. As much as people would like to disrupt the world by going their own way entirely, you cannot change an existing system without also becoming a little part of it in order to change it from the inside. Everybody can change something, but nobody can change everything.

Rick Falkvinge

#6. People always have the kind of government they want. When they want change, they must change it.

A.E. Van Vogt

#7. If critics of 'readable fiction' want literature to change the ways people dream, they need first to come down from the mountain and speak to the people.

Graham Joyce

#8. Change is always proceeded by a little pain. Some people can change and they don't have to go through so many painful things. But I think that I'm of a personality that I'm a little stubborn, so it's always tough for me.

Mel Gibson

#9. Money & success don't change people; they merely amplify what is already there.

Will Smith

#10. Do you think someone can change? Like maybe in a year or two? Like, do you think if maybe two people aren't right for each other right now, maybe they could be later?

Stephen Emond

#11. Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

Chelsea Clinton

#12. Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.

Alana Stewart

#13. You know you're on the right road, when the right and necessary people cross your path

Jeff Hodges

#14. 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

#15. You can't automate in the arts. Since the sixteenth century there has been no change in the number of people necessary to produce Hamlet.

William T. Wiley

#16. 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

#17. Revolutions are spiritual acts. They appear first in people, then in politics and the economy. New people form new structures. The transformation we want is first of all spiritual; that will necessarily change the way things are.

Joseph Goebbels

#18. People get comfortable with the way you are - they have formed their opinion of you based on everything they see and know about you as a person. When you change that up by losing weight, they no longer understand you.

Jennifer Hudson

#19. The most important thing about a technology is how it changes people.

Jaron Lanier

#20. I've learned that for many people, change is uncomfortable. Maybe they want to go through it, and they can see the benefit of it, but at a gut level, change is uncomfortable.

Mitchell Baker

#21. Probably people always feel that they are living in a time of transition, but we can hardly be mistaken perhaps in thinking that this is an era of particularly momentous change, rapid and proceeding at an ever quickening rate.

Emily Greene Balch

#22. People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

John Holdren

#23. I realized that this was the big secret of democracy
that change can occur by starting off with just a few people doing something.

Michael Moore

#24. Let's embrace more of life, not less. Balanced people don't change the world, and I'd rather spend my time feeling worn out from meaningful activities and projects.

Chris Guillebeau

#25. When you are shooting a movie, you have to collaborate with many, many, many people. First of all, the director with all his own ideas and I can only just help him with that. I cannot change his idea.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#26. And now, because of a song, Vimes, a simple piece of music, Vimes, soft as a breath, stranger than a mountain, some very powerful states have agreed to work together to heal the problems of another autonomous state and, almost as collateral, turn some animals into people at a stroke.

Terry Pratchett

#27. I know that books I have written will still resonate in 50 years - particularly 'My Sister's Keeper.' It has sold three million copies in the States alone. I strongly feel that, as a novelist, you have a platform and the ability to change people's minds.

Jodi Picoult

#28. The people who drive us nuts often change us most.

Auliq Ice

#29. Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

Joyce Meyer

#30. I don't think the Palestinian people or Afghan children or some other things I'm concerned about are at the top of other people's agendas - not right now, when America is going through such a recession and people are suffering across the board financially. But I think all that will change.

Patti Smith

#31. An egocentric pessimist is a person who thinks he hasn't changed, but that other people are behaving worse than before.

Idries Shah

#32. I cannot either change or do anything bad or good to the Syrian people and Syrian citizens.

Najib Mikati

#33. Some people don't like change, but you need to embrace change if the alternative is disaster.

Elon Musk

#34. It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money.

Sinead O'Connor

#35. It seems that the one thing that doesn't change is people's reaction to short-term conditions and their axiomatic ability to perpetuate them far into the future.

James O'Shaughnessy

#36. I think that we need to change the culture, not blame the people that are playing the only game that exists.

Gloria Steinem

#37. Your first mistake might be assuming that people are rational.
Your second mistake could be assuming that people are eager for change.
And the marketer's third mistake is assuming that once someone knows things the way you know them, they will choose what you chose.

Seth Godin

#38. Change occurs among other people,

Charles Duhigg

#39. You simply never know about people,' thought Elizabeth. 'You think because they're timid they'll always be timid, or because they're mean they'll always be mean. But they can change awfully quickly if they are treated right.

Enid Blyton

#40. The secret to longevity in the music business is to change, and to be able to change. An actor has to assume other people's identities. A rock star doesn't need to do that. But change is important.

Nick Cave

#41. Chemistry [between people] is not the easiest thing to evaluate. Just like talent and health, these things can change.

Austin Ainge

#42. But doing something means that people must change, make an effort, use their minds, which is what most people do not like to do.

Harry Harrison

#43. Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

Chris Christie

#44. I don't vote. I voted Labour once, in that moment of euphoria. I know that if people only made a voice for change, then change will happen, but I'm not that person. I'm painting pictures.

Gary Hume

#45. Theater has an incredible capacity to move people to social change, to address issues, to inspire social revolution.

Eve Ensler

#46. There are many organizations and individuals advocating for the public interest online - what's good for ordinary people - but other interests are more numerous and powerful than they are. I want that to change. And that's what I want to do next.

Sue Gardner

#47. I do not know if the story repeats itself: I only know that people change little

Octavio Paz

#48. An ordinary Turk, an ordinary Arab, an ordinary Tunisian can change history. We believe that democracy is good, and that our people deserve it.

Ahmet Davutoglu

#49. Laugh with fake id's but i have permanent license of pain in eyes

Kjiva

#50. I think Albertans are progressive and forward-looking and are very optimistic, and I think they've always embraced change. Now with the economy being the way it is, I think we need to acknowledge people are a bit nervous too.

Rachel Notley

#51. Business and scholarship pass away with the person, but the soul is forever like new. Fame and fortune change with the generations, but the spirit is always the same. Enlightened people surely should not exchange the lasting for the ephemeral.

Zicheng Hong

#52. One thing we must understand, that if we have to change the world, we have to change human beings. People think by giving lectures, having conferences and this and that, peace will come. It will never come. A global transformation has to come for peace, for wisdom and for joy.

Nirmala Srivastava

#53. All I want from you is to trust me with what little you can, and grow in loving people around you with the same love I share with you. It's not your job to change them, or to convince them. You are free to love without an agenda.

Wm. Paul Young

#54. This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century.

Pope Francis

#55. Don't be upset and caught up with things or people you cannot change. Instead, move on, let go and concentrate on what you CAN change. Things that enhance your life. You deserve to be happy.

Unknown

#56. We must change the decisions we are making by changing the people who are making them.

Marco Rubio

#57. People really didn't change very much, he thought; they only decayed.

Soseki Natsume

#58. Eritrean people are strong and caring. And despite all that we had been through we were brimming with optimism. Our country was on the verge of huge change.

Abeba Habtu

#59. Civic participants don't aim to make life better merely for members of the group. They want to improve even the lives of people who never participate ...

Clay Shirky

#60. No matter how many modern parts I do, people still refer to me as Mrs. Costume Drama. Fight Club is a studio pic, and I've done very few of those. I've got a feeling it's going to change things for me.

Helena Bonham Carter

#61. 99% of the people in the world would say there's something that they'd like to change about their lives, because nothing's perfect, and nobody's perfect. I suppose I could look at the glass half-empty instead of as half-full.

Morris Chestnut

#62. He'd observed over the centuries that what made people old was when they could no longer keep up with change. It's the beginning of the end, though few recognize it as such at the time.

Alma Katsu

#63. If a huge number of people call for change, the government will have to react. If you want to avoid uprisings, or demonstrations, you need to respond to the people's desperate need for change.

Mohamed ElBaradei

#64. I want to talk to these people because they stay in power and you change all the time.

Nikita Khrushchev

#65. I want to make paintings full of colour, laughter, compassion and love. I want to make paintings that will make people happy, that will change the course of people's lives. If I can do that, I can paint for a hundred years.

Norval Morrisseau

#66. Love and desire...they aren't the same but they go hand in hand. To say you love someone is to say you have the desire for good things for them, that you desire to DO good things for them. One of the worst things the enemy does is change the definition of love in the minds of a people.

J. Evan Johnson

#67. I hope that I can get people to read it without having to change it. Especially now that the strip has more different kinds of characters. It's really not all lesbians any more.

Alison Bechdel

#68. People don't change their behavior unless it makes a difference for them to do so.

Sharon Stone

#69. I saw people rise out of poverty right in front of me ... It made me believe that the market was the most powerful tool for change that we could hope to have.

Paul Rice

#70. Humor is how you change people's opinions, and if you can make someone laugh, they'll listen, even if they hate you.

John Waters

#71. Pretty soon we'll have robots in our society, you're going to have a lot of automated processes that used to be done by people - this is happening. Society and technology is changing so fast, and the impact of the change on society and technology is global, not local.

Jose Padilha

#72. People respect me; I respect them. I'll never change. I realize who I am.

Michael Vick

#73. No man can sincerely resolve to apply to his daily life the teachings of Jesus of Nazareth without sensing a change in his own nature. The phrase, 'born again', has a deeper significance than many people attach to it. This changed feeling may be indescribable, but it is real.

David O. McKay

#74. The news that comes out of Pakistan is always geared toward terrorism and fundamentalism. But when you give people freedom of expression and the freedom to go out and be social and to express themselves, you will see a change. I see that coming about in my country.

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy

#75. People can and do change.

Earl Nightingale

#76. Making people change because you can't deal with who they are isn't how it's supposed to be done. What needs to be done is for people to pull their heads out of their asses. You say 'cure.' I hear 'you're not human enough.

John Scalzi

#77. It's nice being friends over a period of time with people whose music you like so much, or other filmmakers, seeing people change, go through trials.

Noah Baumbach

#78. I believe all problems can be solved. It's that simple. And most people don't. Most people just want to wallow in it, but they don't want it fixed, especially if the fix requires the acceptance of personal responsibility and personal change.

Diane Capri

#79. As one of Henrietta's relatives said to me, "If you pretty up how people spoke and change the things they said, that's dishonest. It's taking away their lives, their experiences, and their selves." In

Rebecca Skloot

#80. The scary part is that people don't realize how much they've changed .

Simone Elkeles

#81. If you're not working, over time you're much more likely to develop attitudes and orientations and behavior patterns that are associated with casual or infrequent work. And then when you open up opportunities for people, you notice that these attitudes, orientations, habits and styles also change.

William Julius Wilson

#82. People cannot change people. Only God can get inside a person's heart and cause him or her to want to change.

Joyce Meyer

#83. I try to make a film that's very entertaining, very funny, but also gives you something to think about. And the strongest thing I have to offer is my point of view, to get across how I see the world in hopes that it can change the way other people see the world, hopefully for the better.

Terry Zwigoff

#84. Only changed people can change the world. Start with yourself.

Rick Warren

#85. We have to change the culture from one in which people simply do their own job in their own function to make their own numbers look good (a vertical focus) to one in which people are focused horizontally on the customer and on improving value streams that deliver value across functions.

Jeffrey K. Liker

#86. The world has improved mostly because unorthodox people did unorthodox things. Not surprisingly, they had the courage and daring to think they could make a difference.

Ruby Dee

#87. I want to challenge all of you as people of deep conscience, people who are environment stewards of the earth and oceans ... By changing what you eat, you will change the entire contract between the human species and the natural world.

James Cameron

#88. I really do see the good in people, and I don't want to change that. That's really how I view things, so sometimes I'll look past a lot of huge red flags because I see something else in someone. Then, of course, it always comes back to haunt me in the long run.

Jennifer Morrison

#89. To demilitarize the country means to make a profound decision. It is not enough to change the name of the armed forces. It is necessary to change the minds of those people who only yesterday wore a military uniform.

Oscar Arias

#90. I can't change the fact that my paintings don't sell. But the time will come when people will recognize that they are worth more than the value of the paints used in the picture.

Vincent Van Gogh

#91. I'm worried about people who say Bush is lying. It's much more frightening that he's not lying, that he believes what he believes: that it's his mission to change the Middle East into a democracy. That's more unnerving.

Seymour Hersh

#92. We can change our whole life and attitude of the people around us simply by changing ourselves..

Rudolf Dreikurs

#93. The American people ... want change. They want big ideas, big reform.

Rahm Emanuel

#94. The Porsche was just a vehicle to get to another place. I used it to change people's perceptions of me. I had grown up really middle class. USC was filled with elitists, richies who would go skiing every weekend. So I pretended like I was part of that world - to be accepted.

Brian Grazer

#95. Our great privilege as worship leaders is to help people see through the eyes of faith how great God has actually revealed himself to be. He doesn't change. We do.

Bob Kauflin

#96. Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I wanted to make a difference, which is why I created the Queen of the Universe pageant. I want to change all of those stigmas in the beauty pageant world.

Joyce Giraud

#97. The people are Anchors," I say.
"People don't make good Anchors, though, Craig. They change. The people here are going to change. The patients are going to leave. You can't rely on them.

Ned Vizzini

#98. People don't change that much. Instead of trying to put in what God left out, try drawing out what God left in!

Curt Coffman

#99. Also, after people play these Sim games, it tends to change their perception of the world around them, so they see their city, house or family in a slightly different way after playing.

Will Wright

#100. Singles needed to come back. And what I tried to do in my online experiment was to change the rules for myself and make available at a more regular pace the fruits of my labour, for people who decided they wanted to support my recordings.

Todd Rundgren