Quotes About You Can't Change Someone

#1. The only way to think clearly is to know that you can't change someone else but you can change you.

Anonymous

#2. You can't change someone. The best thing you can do for someone is to just accept them.

Guy Wilson

#3. You can't change someone's behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart.

Nouman Ali Khan

#4. They said it just happens once. That you only can love someone in that way once in a lifetime. That it can change your life when it ends.

Yuli Pritania

#5. What I've learned is that music affects the way you feel. A song can change someone's life.

David Archuleta

#6. You can change someone's life by showing gratitude and giving sincere appreciation.

Debasish Mridha

#7. Even a brief interaction can change the way people think about themselves, their leaders, and the future. Each of those many connections you make has the potential to become a high point or a low point in someone's day.

Douglas Conant

#8. Words can launch us. We don't need to be a dean to say words that change everything for someone. Instead, God made it so that ordinary people like you and me can launch each other.

Bob Goff

#9. You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love. Love.

Suzy Kassem

#10. The way I see it, you can live your life as is, continuing to feel like an underdog, or you can step up. Be someone who matters, and make a change.

Kayla Krantz

#11. What children, in fact all of us at any age, find frightening is unreliability and emotional coldness. The idea that you can't affect someone, that you can't see where they're coming from and can change tact at any moment.

Tilda Swinton

#12. We forget that the simple gesture of putting a book in someone's hands can change a life. I want to remind you that it can. I want to thank you because it did. - 2010 Indies Choice Award

Kate DiCamillo

#13. You can't drive them around in the getaway van.' 'How about we don't call it the getaway van? People might get suspicious.' 'So what should we call it?' 'How about the van?' 'It doesn't change what it is and that it's a shitty thing to do. Someone might see them in it.

Cath Crowley

#14. The new environment dictates two rules: first, everything happens faster; second, anything that can be done will be done, if not by you, then by someone else, somewhere.

Andy Grove

#15. Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't stand the thought of them changing? Is it a crime when you love someone so much that you can't see clearly?

Jodi Picoult

#16. To me, the most emotional thing is to see regular people wearing our clothes. Yes, sometimes I see our clothes on somebody, and I think, 'No!', but you can't stop someone in the street and say, 'Please go home and change.'

Domenico Dolce

#17. The hardest spiritual work in the world is to love the neighbor as the self - to encounter another human being not as someone you can use, change, fix, help, save, enroll, convince or control, but simply as someone who can spring you from the prison of yourself, if you will allow it.

Barbara Brown Taylor

#18. How much can you change and get away with it, before you turn into someone else, before it's some kind of murder?

Richard Siken

#19. Things always change when someone you love dies. You just can't prepare yourself for those changes no matter what you do in advance.
The only thing that's a certainty in always wondering who's going to be next.

J.A. Redmerski

#20. Just about ANY personality trait or skill can be learned: simply find it in someone you know and copy it. Then watch what happens.

Steve Goodier

#21. Nothing's going to change if you're just thinking about it. No matter how much you worry about someone else's problems.... you can't fix it for them.

Inio Asano

#22. What makes you think that Valentine's change of plans had anything to do with your brother?"
"Because only Jace can piss someone off that much.

Cassandra Clare

#23. Why spend your life with someone who is dying to change you ... when you can be with someone who only wants to love you as you are.... being his world, moon and stars.

Renee' A. Lee

#24. Of course I can accept you for who you are. You are someone I need to change.

Randy Glasbergen

#25. Hats have power. Hats can change you into someone else.

Catherynne M Valente

#26. Sometimes, we can't do the things we want to do for ourselves. Sometimes we wait for someone else to do them. You can't always wait like that. You have to seek out change on your own.

Sara Wolf

#27. She learned the same lesson I had learned though - if someone is hell-bent on self-destruction, there isn't a lot you can do to change their mind.

Mia Sheridan

#28. The difference between my beliefs and having a religious faith is that I am prepared to change my views in light of new evidence, but someone of a religious faith will just stick their fingers in the ears and say: 'I'm not listening, there's nothing you can say that will make me change my mind.

Jim Al-Khalili

#29. The only time you can change someone is when they are in diapers.

Kris Carr

#30. Everyone's always making fun of him and calling him crazy behind his back, but I can kind of understand how someone would end up that way. I mean, if no one ever pays attention to you telling the truth, then it probably makes sense to try lying for a change.

Amy Reed

#31. People were like, "Oh maybe we can change your teeth" and I thought that was going a bit far. You have to be really strong in this job and realise that you are your own boss and if someone tells you to do something, you don't have to do it. I really like my teeth.

Lara Stone

#32. Your world can change in an instant when you see someone through another's eyes.

Alison G. Bailey

#33. Lifting whole passages from someone else's speeches is not change you can believe in. It's change you can Xerox.

Hillary Clinton

#34. It's funny how books can change you. You open up a book and one minute you are who you've always been, then you read some random passage and you become someone else.

Brian Joyce

#35. Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Grace Slick

#36. I know as well as you do that only the individual has the key to change themselves. It's buried deep inside each and every one of us and although someone else can help us to find the key, we're the only ones who can use it.

Lisa Jewell

#37. No matter what you do, your person comes through. You can't completely change yourself on the screen. I had in mind someone colder and more in control, but I couldn't do it. This human note just crept in and maybe it's better.

Leslie Caron

#38. The only reason to build a website is to change someone. If you can't tell me the change and you can't tell me the someone, then you're wasting your time.

Seth Godin

#39. You did everything you could, but sometimes all the love in the world from mothers and brothers isn't enough to help pull someone out of their nightmare. We just need to accept that things are what they are, and all the guilt and regret in the world can't change that.

Colleen Hoover

#40. Sometimes your friends and family change. Instead of talking to someone who is labeled a "friend", talk to someone you "like". Even when I'm depressed, someone I like can sometimes find their way through the maze and make me laugh.

Anonymous

#41. Remember, changing someone's hang-ups is an easier task if stays in the realm of sex because the carrot at the end of this trip is - SEX! It's not so easy to change other aspects of a man's personality because the rewards aren't as apparent and you can't exactly screw the stupid out of someone.

Roberto Hogue

#42. Feelings are constantly changing. None is dependable for long. You can love someone intensely today, and tomorrow or next month not feel a thing. Except perhaps for the feeling of doubt or depression that what was so beautiful could change so quickly.

Barry Long

#43. There is a giant gulf between doing something and doing nothing. And someone who makes a lolcat and uploads it - even if only to crack their friends up - has already crossed that chasm to doing something. That's the sea change, and you can see it even with the cute cats.

Clay Shirky

#44. Just remember who you are ... The world will try to change you into someone else. Don't let them. That's the best advice anyone can give you.

Cinda Williams Chima

#45. When customers' expectations change faster than your willingness or ability to serve them, you can be sure they'll be someone else's customers soon.

Ron Kaufman

#46. Don't look for someone you think you can change. Find someone you can love. Someone who will love you back, even if you get old and fat.

Brandon Shire

#47. Someone was hurt before you, wronged before you, hungry before you, frightened before you, beaten before you, humiliated before you, raped before you ... yet, someone survived ... You can do anything you choose to do.

Maya Angelou

#48. Writers generally get into writing because they want to write, not because they want to be independent publishers, and you can't really fault someone for saying, 'What I'm doing right now works, so there's no reason to change it.'

Jennifer Armintrout

#49. It is always more fun to play a bad guy than to be yourself as you can create a character unlike your own and be someone you are not for a change.

Richard Kiel

#50. As you age, you start to realize that your emotions are in your hands and not someone else's. Once you put them in someone else's hands, that's when you give them the power, and you can't change it. Only they can change it.

Keke Palmer

#51. When someone rips your heart out, there's nothing you can do to change how you feel about them. You just have to keep feeling that way until it goes away. Until it never does.

Susane Colasanti

#52. Often times we feel like either we can't make a world of difference, or we feel that it's not going to change anything anyway. The truth is you can change someone's day, you can change someone's life, but you have to show up and do what you got to do to actually see any fruit coming from it.

Nick Vujicic

#53. It is important always to have really original talent. There are lots of good designers that make attractive clothes and make women look beautiful. But at the same time, one doesn't want to lose the idea that there is someone out there who can change the way you look at fashion.

Anna Wintour

#54. Forgiveness is a choice. You control how you respond to something or someone. You can't change things that happened in the past, but you can decide how you let them affect you.

Amalie Howard

#55. It's hard whenever someone makes the wrong choice that affects others around him, but you can't let that change who you are.

Lisa Harris

#56. There is no other way to change something or someone for the better except to occupy it first. The only person you can occupy is yourself. That is why the only person who can change you for the better is you. Without your decision to change and your commitment to change, you will not change.

Gary Zukav

#57. That's love? To let someone beat you and be hateful to you? These people are all so ... Weak. Powerless to change their lives. I know the feeling. All you can do is take it. No one understands how it beats you down.

Julie Anne Peters

#58. When someone doesn't want to change then there is nothing you can do to change them. And, when someone wants to change there is nothing you can do to stop them.

Marnie Kay

#59. When you know someone behind you, you can change the world, when you know someone behind her, the world will change you.

Nutan Bajracharya

#60. Seem like it be a mighty hard thing to change someone's mind," he said. "Most folks won't change their mind unless they have a change of heart first." "Well, then ... how do I change their heart?" "You can't, Missy Caroline," he said gently. "Only Massa Jesus can change folks' hearts.

Lynn Austin

#61. Never let me hear you say it's someone else's fault. It often is, but you must never shirk your own responsibility ... You can't change others, but you can do something about a fault in yourself.

Anne Holm

#62. If you're trying to change someone you love, you don't love them. It's the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you'd miss the most. That's the stuff you can't replace. Everything else is easy to come by.

Crystal Woods

#63. If someone hacks your password, you can change it - as many times as you want.

Al Franken

#64. impact. Even on the phone you can hear a change in someone's voice or a pause to let you know how they are interpreting what you've said. In text, your mistake just sits there marinating on the other person's screen, leaving a lasting record of your ineptitude and bozoness.

Aziz Ansari

#65. The thing is: you might be right to trust someone at one point, but they can change."
"+ in between they must be drifting from trustworthy to not. But you can't tell how far they've drifted until it's too late.

J.J. Abrams

#66. You Can Meet Someone Who Can Change Your Life In The Space Of A Year, In The Space Of A Month Or A Week.

Joseph Morgan

#67. 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

#68. 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

#69. You cannot change how someone thinks, but you can give them a tool to use which will lead them to think differently.

R. Buckminster Fuller

#70. Before you start yelling at someone for their behavior, see why they are acting that way. Change the game and everyone can win.

Presh Talwalkar

#71. You can change a life by touching someone with simple, beautiful, kind, words and a loving smile.

Debasish Mridha

#72. If you're having a conversation with someone in speech, and it's not being tape-recorded, you can change your opinion, but on the Internet, it's not like that. On the Internet it's almost as if everything you say were being tape-recorded. You can't say, I changed my mind.

Sherry Turkle

#73. One person cannot change the world. But you can become the world for someone. A warm, bright, and peaceful world. If everyone can be such a world to one person, one will become ten people, and then a hundred. The world will be full of happy people then.

Enrique Iglesias

#74. The hardest thing in the world is believing someone can change. It's always easier to go along with the way things are than to admit that you might have been wrong in the first place.

Jodi Picoult

#75. 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

#76. 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

#77. 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

#78. If you define yourself as someone fixing education, there's nothing short-range you can do to fix education directly. It's labor intensive. You have to change the way people act. You have to convince people, and change people.

Deborah Meier

#79. Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship; you are very much in love with someone, but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

Vanessa Paradis

#80. Real change rarely comes from the front of the line. It happens from the middle or even the back. Real change happens when someone who cares steps up and takes what feels like a risk. People follow because they want to, not because you can order them to.

Seth Godin

#81. And one day spent with someone you love can change everything. I

Mitch Albom

#82. It's crap when people say you shouldn't try to change someone. The whole nature of a relationship is compromise, and compromise is change. It can be scary as hell changing what you know to fit with someone else, so I think you're entitled to drag your feet a bit.

L.A. Fiore

#83. It's true. In America, you can reinvent yourself at any turn. And, you know, if things aren't going well for you in life, everyone says, change, become someone different.

Adam Johnson

#84. It's important to understand that your no is always subject to you. You own your boundaries. They don't own you. If you set limits with someone, and she responds maturely and lovingly, you can renegotiate the boundary. In addition, you can change the boundary if you are in a safer place.

Henry Cloud

#85. Being one of the angels is one of the few jobs that can totally change someone's life. For example, clients and designers who would have never given you a second look, now sit up and take notice.

Candice Swanepoel

#86. Love is messy. If you really love someone, you can't avoid the pain. People die, people leave, things change, but sometimes it all works

Danielle Steel

#87. We tend to think that it's up to others to respect our needs and fill them for us. But that doesn't ever work, and for the following reason:
If you have a hard time knowing what it is you really need, then how on earth can you logically expect someone else to know?

Amanda Butterworth

#88. There is no way of knowing for sure whether or not you can trust someone, for the simple reason that circumstances change all of the time.

Lemony Snicket

#89. Maybe, if you can't get someone out of your head they were never meant to leave. Perhaps, they were meant to help change you into the person you have been waiting to become.

Shannon L. Alder

#90. I will personally extend invitations to the entire Rampion crew. We'll make a reunion out of it." "Even Iko?" "I'll find her a date." "Because there's a rule against androids coming to the ball, you know." "I think I know someone who can change that rule." Grinning,

Marissa Meyer

#91. I wanted to tell him that you can meet someone and they can change your life forever, even if you have only known him for a short while, that when you leave, you're a different person than before you met him ... and I undertstand that because of meeting Deni.

Heidi R. Kling

#92. You can't change ignorance by beating a hole into someone's face. Doing that only makes you as ignorant as they are.

Melyssa Winchester

#93. You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

Joyce Meyer

#94. We are not created equal in talent. But the place where we are least equal is the heart. You can work at a talent, take lessons, but love, love either works or it doesn't. You love someone or you don't. You can't change it. You can't undo it.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#95. If someone steals your password, you can change it. But if someone steals your thumbprint, you can't get a new thumb. The failure modes are very different.

Bruce Schneier

#96. Blame is such a self-defeating choice. It renders one helpless, putting any solution well out of reach, for we rarely can change others. Consider this, a solution well within your reach, someone you can surely change: Yourself.

Russell Kyle

#97. Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.

Nicholas Sparks

#98. One day spent with someone you love can change everything.

Mitch Albom

#99. Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don't ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don't assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.

Alexandra Potter

#100. I've become very interested in the ways things can change even with someone you've known for many years and you've committed to for life. How drastic can you damage things in the way you speak to someone?

Jenny Slate