Top 100 Try To Change Quotes
#1. Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!
Joyce Meyer
#2. As a standup, I try to change the world. As an entertainer, I try to entertain. And as a lesbian, I try to pick up the prettiest girl in the room.
Lea DeLaria
#3. What more could anyone want than to try to change and be changed by someone?
Catherine Lacey
#4. Once in your life, try something. Work hard at something. Try to change. Nothing bad can happen.
Jack Ma
#5. Passionate, organized hatred is the element missing in all that we do to try to change the world. Now is the time to spread hate, hatred for the rich.
Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
#6. 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
#7. I found my sound early on. Look at U2: they haven't changed their music for 20 years. Anyway, many people come unstuck when they try to change what they do and what they are known for.
Joan Armatrading
#8. You may not need to try to change. Just wait and it will happen.
Debasish Mridha
#9. What I and other commentators do is attempt to move the public opinion. We try to change minds.
Ann Coulter
#10. And these children
that you spit on
as they try to change their worlds
are immune to your consultations.
They're quite aware
of what they're going through ...
David Bowie
#11. The single most wasteful thing you can do in marketing is try to change a mind.
Al Ries
#12. I want to be proud of this country [the USA], but when aspects of our policy don't align with my ethics, I want to protest them and try to change them. Being complicit because it's the home team is nationalism, not patriotism.
Shepard Fairey
#13. I've made mistakes in business, but none so big I couldn't recover and learn from them. The more you try to change consumer behaviour, the riskier it gets. You have to work out your potential losses against the obvious gains.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#14. The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough ... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#15. Won't you let me take you for a ride.
You can stop the world, try to change my mind. Won't you let me show you how it feels. You can stop the world, but you won't change me. I need music." -"Bleed
Cold
#16. If we try to change our ego with the help of our ego, we only have a better-disguised ego!
Richard Rohr
#17. Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take 'no' for an answer.
Lauren Conrad
#18. Don't try and change me. Women always try to change men. It never works. I'm not trying to change you. I'm trying to work with you.
Lisa Scottoline
#19. None of us ask for some things. We don't ask to be born where we were. We don't ask for those things which limit us. We have to do the best we can with what we have where we are. And we can try to change things, but you can't do any of that if you refuse to accept where you are.
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
#20. When you love someone, you don't try to change them.
Michelle Yeoh
#21. Our tendency is to run from the painful realities or try to change them as soon as possible. But cure without care makes us into rulers, controllers, manipulators.
Henri Nouwen
#22. If you're unwilling to try new things and to fail and learn, you don't have a shot. That doesn't mean you are going to be successful, but you have to try to change.
Edward Lampert
#24. The problem with always being a conformist is that when you try to change the system from within, it's not you who changes the system; it's the system that will eventually change you.
Immortal Technique
#25. Don't try to change the situation. Change the mindset and the situation will change.
Debasish Mridha
#26. This is an amazing country, for all of its faults. My feeling is, dig in and let's try to change the world. Dissent is not only your right, it's your duty.
Susan Sarandon
#27. 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
#28. Don't try to change anybody. And they should let you be yourself, 'You loved me when you met me, so let's keep going!'
Willie Nelson
#29. Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
Wayne Rogers
#30. I'm my own artist, and I see artists as movies. No one should try to change them for anything. If you don't like it, you just don't follow it. And if you don't like a movie you don't watch it. Watch another movie.
Zedd
#31. 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
#32. Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it ... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
Alexander Payne
#33. I'm not going to get into a debate over the non-essentials. I won't try to change other denominations. Why be divisive?
Rick Warren
#34. Real love is accepting other people the way they are without trying to change them. If we try to change them, this means we don't really like them.
Miguel Ruiz
#35. 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
#36. The world of the warriors is the world of trying. We try to change the world that we don't like, and we keep trying, and trying, and trying, and the war looks endless.
Miguel Ruiz
#37. I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.
Preston Manning
#38. The higher purpose of # astrology is not to try to change one's destiny, but to fulfill it through growing in awareness
Stephen Arroyo
#39. I was not a believer in things just changing. One had to try to change them.
Kathleen Rooney
#40. The greatest nations are those who try to change the unalterable realities!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#41. I understood exactly what it was to want to change. To try to change. To find it impossible.
Laurelin Paige
#42. I'm a big believer that you can try to change the world based on philosophy, doctrine, and belief. But I think the thing that really drives the world is hedonism, the pleasure factor.
Danny Meyer
#43. So, please people, if you know someone with AD(H)D, don't try to change that about them. Don't take that one skill away, or make them feel ashamed to use it. Sometimes procrastination is all they have in their little superhero tool belt!
Stacey Turis
#44. A warrior knows that he cannot change, and yet he makes it his business to try to change, even though he knows that he won't be able to. That's the only advantage a warrior has over the average man. The warrior is never disappointed when he fails to change.
Carlos Castaneda
#45. Hypocrisy is our friend. Power structures have to pretend to hold values in order to win the loyalty of at least some of society. We can use the gap between those professed values and reality to move people to try to change the reality towards the values.
Justin Podur
#46. They said just keep doing my thing, don't try to change anything, which I won't.
Paul McDonald
#47. We can either try to change everything or just make the most of whatever time we have.
Ally Condie
#48. Don't try to change the world. To find yourself in a new world, change your thoughts.
Debasish Mridha
#49. If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
Woodrow Wilson
#50. It is utterly useless to try to change the outer world, for it is but a reflection of inner causes. The true seeker seeks to change himself.
Vernon Howard
#51. Love is such a powerful force. It's there for everyone to embrace-that kind of unconditional love for all of humankind. That is the kind of love that impels people to go into the community and try to change conditions for others, to take risks for what they believe in.
Coretta Scott King
#52. Why study or try to change the world on a Friday afternoon when you could be out enjoying the sun?
Nicholas Sparks
#53. You must try to change some things in your society and all good changes first start attacking old rotten ideas, storming common cultural stupidities and raiding spiritual lies, fearlessly and even ruthlessly! And never forget that you can defat ideas only with ideas!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#54. That was one of the things she loved about him. He assumed she could walk and chew gum at the same time. He nevef second-guessed her, and he didn't try to change her. He accepted
Jill Shalvis
#55. Company cultures are like country cultures. Never try to change one. Try, instead, to work with what you've got.
Peter Drucker
#56. Culture is a product of law. And laws create norms for society. This is why anyone who wants to change the culture of a country must try to change the norms of the country.
Myles Munroe
#57. We have created a world we don't like, don't understand and don't trust, and we are too frightened to try to change it.
James Rozoff
#58. Throughout history, people with new ideas - who think differently and try to change things - have always been called troublemakers.
Richelle Mead
#59. When you try to portray people's lives, you try to make sure you don't portray them as clowns and that you give them a level of dignity. You don't try to change their persona, but you try to understand that they had unique problems, set in a century that you don't live.
Kevin Costner
#60. Woodrow Wilson says that if you want to make enemies, try to change something! Well, I think there is an easier way to make enemies: Tell the truths!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#61. I try to change my physical appearance for every role.
Robert Z'Dar
#62. Cooking is like fashion. Always, I like to try to change. If I'm traveling in a different country - to Australia, the Bahamas, Budapest, Moscow - and I see a new ingredient, I like to try it in a new dish.
Nobu Matsuhisa
#63. This is one secret in living with the loved one. That is, it doesn't try to change the other party.
Jacques Chardonne
#64. You can try to change New York, but it's like Jay-Z says: Concrete bunghole where dreams are made up, there's nothing you can do.
LIZ
#65. As we try to change society to fit our standards and bring about the sense of peace we long for, it is only when we turn inwards, clean our own backyards and serve as a source of inspiration that society will improve on its own.
Dana Gore
#66. I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.
Herman Cain
#67. Try to change the world one suffering heart at a time with your endless kindness.
Debasish Mridha
#68. If you try to change it, you will ruin it. Try to hold it, and you will lose it.
Lao-Tzu
#69. Whatever your determination or will power, it is foolish to try to change the nature of things. Things work the way they do because that is the way of things
Miyamoto Musashi
#70. Fitness is important, but the most important thing is how you adapt and the way you feel physically. To adapt to a new position. To try to change your game.
Fernando Torres
#71. People hate change and, more than anything, they hate those who try to change things.
Melina Marchetta
#72. The more you know, the more you try to change them, and that can be disastrous.
Rick Riordan
#73. When I was young, I thought I was a god. Now, I just basically work on staying humble. My priorities changed. Just to be able to try to change them - that was frightening to me.
Mike Tyson
#74. I'm just who I am. I don't try to change myself for other people.
Noel Clarke
#75. There are many challenges, there are many obstacles; let us try to change the obstacles to advantages.
Harri Holkeri
#76. Yesterday I was clever and tried to change the world. Today I am wise and try to change myself.
Rumi
#77. It is always easier to believe what you already think than to try to change your mind.
Hanya Yanagihara
#78. I don't try to change myself to impress anybody. I'm just who I am.
Tim Duncan
#79. I think too often we forget that girls can like sport; we are not biologically programmed to detest it, we are - in the main - conditioned against it. But shouldn't we try to change that?
Anna Kessel
#80. 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
#81. I would say that my fatal flaw, as a human being, is that I need people to like me, and if they don't like me, I will obsess over it - and try to change my personality until they like me - even if they don't like me for reasons that have nothing to do with me, and even if they're strangers.
Damon Lindelof
#82. Sometimes when you try to change the world, the world changes you!
Alex Haditaghi
#83. Who am I to try to change things, to get greedy and want more? If our Society changes and things are different, who am I to tell the girl who would have enjoyed the safe protected life that now she has to have choice and danger because of me?
Ally Condie
#84. God is the one that's ultimately in control of everything. You can't try to change things when they're not meant to be changed.
Ricky Stenhouse Jr.
#85. But my father told me, and my grandmother told him, whenever you try to change something, you sacrifice something else.
Heidi Heilig
#86. If you want to be rich, be friends with people who have the same mindset as you, or who at least won't try to change your mindset to be more like theirs. Life is too short to spend time with people who don't help you move forward.
Robert Kiyosaki
#87. I love nature, but I try to change it a little bit, not copy it,
Elsa Peretti
#88. You're fine the way you are. Don't try to change it, try to better it.
Laura L. Namy
#89. To try to change outward attitudes and behaviors does very little good in the long run if we fail to examine the basic paradigms from which those attitudes and behaviors flow. This
Stephen R. Covey
#90. The trouble with remakes is that people fall in love with the original. It's like peanut butter. If you try to change the taste of peanut butter, you're in trouble.
Sylvester Stallone
#91. You are who you are because others say that's who you are. You can try to change who you are but it will only change the views of others who think you are what you really aren't.
Anonymous
#92. Once you've chosen a man, don't try to change him', I wrote with more confidence. 'It can't be done. More important-don't let him try to change you.
Diana Gabaldon
#93. I would tell 17-year-olds to be proud of who you are. Don't try to change yourself for others. Focus on school and your future. Boys and friends will come and go, just focus on you and your future.
Lea Michele
#94. A very harmonious way to live with an awkward world would be to try to change what pisses us off, or just accept it as it is. The
John C. Parkin
#95. You can't move so fast that you try to change the mores faster than people can accept it. That doesn't mean you do nothing, but it means that you do the things that need to be done according to priority.
Eleanor Roosevelt
#96. Rather than understand the original cause-a thought-we try to change the stressful feelings by looking outside ourselves.
Byron Katie
#97. Our whole life is wasted in trying to change others. For a change, try to change yourself! It is easier and at least under your control.
Sanchita Pandey
#98. I'm not old school, like, "Aw, man, I gotta do my music like I did in '98." I just go with the flow. I don't try to change anything.
Juicy J
#99. Don't try to change Doofus, let Doofus change you.
Neil Peart
#100. I think Westlife is very unique: we have a certain sound; we do our thing our way, and we don't try to change too much. I think that's what the fans love about us. We keep giving the fans what they want every year. The style of music never really changes too much.
Shane Filan
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