Trying To Change Quotes:

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

- Rhonda Byrne

topic: Trying, Feels, Trying To Change

It's not like I'm just trying to win and get elected. I'm trying to change the course of history.

- Ron Paul

topic: Winning, Trying, Trying To Change

If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away. If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay.

- Oprah Winfrey

topic: Men, Romance, Want, Make You Cry, Stop Making Excuses

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.

- Anatole France

source: Anatole France (2016). “The Crime of Sylvestre Bonnard”, p.186, Anatole France

topic: Life, Change, Spirituality, Resistance To Change, Times Have Changed

Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Change, Powerful, Some People Never Change, Ready For Change

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; courage to change the things I can; and wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it; Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him Forever in the next. Amen.

- Reinhold Niebuhr

topic: Inspirational, Courage, Differences, Prayer Changes Things, Courage To Change

Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Change, Life Changing, People Changing, Some People Never Change, Ready For Change

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

- Henri Bergson

source: Henri Bergson (2015). “Creative Evolution”, p.16, Sheba Blake Publishing

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Managing Change, Times Have Changed

I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

- Michael Jordan

source: "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

topic: Motivational, Change, Basketball, Favorite Sports, Young Entrepreneurs

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: Change, Chaos, Some People Never Change, Times Have Changed, Inspirational Change

A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Live For Yourself, Making Mistakes And Learning From Them

If you want to make enemies, try to change something.

- Woodrow Wilson

source: Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.135, The Minerva Group, Inc.

topic: Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational, Managing Change, Inspirational Presidential

Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

- Arnold Bennett

source: Arnold Bennett (2013). “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.30, Lulu Press, Inc

topic: Change, Moving On, Thought Provoking, Resistance To Change, Positive Change

I want to tell everybody that you won't hear me trying to pop bottles in the club and all that kind of stuff. It's just not me and I think as long as you stay within your element and your age bracket, sure you're going a couple of young folks and teens, but that's not who I'm focused on. I'm really not. I love whoever supports, but I'm just not going to try and go back there because times have changed. If you don't move with the times, you'll get left off. I'm trying to change with the times.

- Ginuwine

source: Source: youknowigotsoul.com

topic: Couple, Moving, Thinking, Times Have Changed, Trying To Change

We have to look at it country by country. In places like the developing world where, as you say, in Mumbai, it's about five hours' gap between what a woman does and a man does. You have to start by recognizing the problem and talking about it, trying to change those roles.

- Melinda Gates

source: Interview with Jessica Grose, www.lennyletter.com. April 1, 2016.

topic: Country, Men, Talking, Mumbai, Trying To Change

I think people who go out and tell you how much they're gonna change things are the people who end up being just another whatever. I'm never trying to change anything. That's not for me.

- Darius Rucker

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Thinking, People, Trying, Trying To Change

We are who we are, and when you accept people instead of trying to change them to fit your needs, your relationships can fully blossom.

- Deepak Chopra

topic: People, Trying, Who We Are, Trying To Change

It's not like activist work is a nice add-on to what's really important, the spiritual work. The two are inseparable and it goes both ways. Many people are hardcore activists for decades, and they encounter burnout, futility, or a feeling of imbalance. Sometimes they need to go so far as to drop their activism and go on a spiritual journey. They're realizing that all the stuff they're trying to change in the world isn't just out there in the world. It's in them, too. And as long as they're blind to what's in them, they're going to continually re-create it in all that they do.

- Charles Eisenstein

source: Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

topic: Spiritual, Nice, Journey, Trying To Change

All these years you've been searching and looking and trying to change things, trying to add thing onto yourself, trying to acquire things when you have been the source of everything to begin with. Everything you've been looking for has been within yourself you have been that. You then begin to surrender everything to yourself. You surrender all of your thoughts, all of your feelings, you surrender all of your desires, all of your wants to the Self. You pull it in all inwardly.

- Robert Adams

topic: Self, Years, Feelings, Trying To Change

Stop trying to change the world since it is only the mirror. Man’s attempt to change the world by force is as fruitless as breaking a mirror in the hope of changing his face. Leave the mirror and change your face. Leave the world alone and change your conceptions of yourself.

- Neville Goddard

source: Neville Goddard (2013). “Your Faith is Your Fortune”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

topic: Men, Mirrors, Trying, Trying To Change

Trying to change ourselves doesn't work in the long run because we're resisting our own energy. Self-improvemen t can have temporary results, but lasting transformation occurs only when we honor ourselves as the source of wisdom and compassion.

- Pema Chodron

topic: Running, Compassion, Self, Trying To Change

On the other hand, we don't come to work with all of these social goals, nor are we directly trying to change the world and all of that. Our job is that we have these human characters, and it's our responsibility to play them truthfully and as human as possible. Jill has cast this impeccably. These actors nail it, even the non-Pfeffermans. It's ridiculous.

- Jeffrey Tambor

source: Source: www.indiewire.com

topic: Jobs, Character, Responsibility, Trying To Change

We're not trying to change the world; just music.

- Jonathan Davis

topic: Change, Trying, World, Trying To Change

We are trying to change the tones in the state capitals - and turn them toward bitter nastiness and partisanship.

- Grover Norquist

source: "The Great Wealth Shift Upward: Corporatists’ War on the Working Class" by Michele Swenson, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 4, 2011.

topic: Change, Trying, Nastiness, Partisanship, Trying To Change

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

source: Horton Foote (1989). “Cousins ; And, The Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle”, p.19, Grove Press

topic: People, Mind, Trying, Trying To Change

If you do not want what I want, please try not to tell me that my want is wrong. Or if my beliefs are different from yours, at least pause before you set out to correct them. Or if my emotion seems less or more intense than yours, given the same circumstances, try not to ask me to feel other than I do. Or if I act, or fail to act, in the manner of your design for action, please let me be. I do not, for the moment at least, ask you to understand me. That will come only when you are willing to give up trying to change me into a copy of you.

- David Keirsey

source: David Keirsey (1998). “Please Understand Me 2”, Prometheus Nemesis Book Company

topic: Giving Up, Design, Trying, Trying To Change

I am a strong believer in the ability of human beings to change for the better. I am a strong believer in trying to change what we are dissatisfied with.

- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

source: "Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Continental Divides". Interview with Joseph Klarl, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 14, 2013.

topic: Strong, Trying, Change For The Better, Trying To Change

My music is just about story telling. I don't have much to say, and I'm not trying to change anyone's mind. I'm just singing through conviction about what I love and what I care about, starting with the very small.

- Sufjan Stevens

topic: Mind, Singing, Trying, Trying To Change

Stop trying to change your behavior; instead, rethink your beliefs

- Martha Beck

topic: Trying, Belief, Behavior, Trying To Change

During my Austin years, I was drawing a regular strip for the University Of Texas newspaper, going to school, delivering blood, and trying to change my approach and "style" as much as I could, since I knew that I'd calcify as I got older.

- Chris Ware

topic: Change, School, Texas, Trying To Change, University Of Texas

I'm not trying to change things in the world and trying to use my leverage to do so. The only thing I'm trying to change in the world is that I'm trying to increase the amount of useful information in it. And entertainment, honestly.

- Rachel Maddow

source: "Rachel Maddow’s Star Power". Interview with Clara Jeffery, www.motherjones.com. January/February 2009.

topic: Trying, Use, World, Trying To Change, Useful Information

Being able to allow people to be who they are without trying to change them is important.

- Tina Weymouth

source: Source: www.rollingstone.com

topic: People, Trying, Important, Trying To Change

What we try to do as Elders is help those who are trying to change their own societies and communities for the better. We hope that by supporting the good work that is being done, especially at the grass roots, we can help to alleviate the suffering of human beings. That is our core mission - to draw attention to the impact that conflict, injustice and poverty have on ordinary people.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Impact, Roots, People, Trying To Change, Alleviate

Loving the self, to me, begins with never ever criticizing ourselves for anything. Criticism locks us into the very pattern we are trying to change. Understanding and being gentle with ourselves helps us to move out of it. Remember, you have been criticizing yourself for years, and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

- Louise Hay

topic: Moving, Self, Years, Trying To Change, Approving

I'm not trying to change the world. I'm trying to stop the world from changing me.

- Ammon Hennacy

topic: Trying, World, Changing The World, Trying To Change

I think in terms of being a New Yorker, as my friends would say, I don't take a lot of mess. I have no tolerance for people who are not thinking deeply about things. I have no tolerance for the kind of small talk that people need to fill silence. And I have no tolerance for people just not being a part of the world and being in it and trying to change it.

- Jacqueline Woodson

source: "Jacqueline Woodson On Growing Up, Coming Out And Saying Hi To Strangers". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. June 19, 2015.

topic: Thinking, People, Silence, Small Talk, Trying To Change

My biggest mistake: not wanting to help myself into thinking I am happy, that change would come about without really trying to change, or wanting to change. Procrastinating about changing. I do want to change.

- Beatrice Sparks

topic: Mistake, Thinking, Trying, Trying To Change

CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

- Adora Svitak

topic: Girl, Thinking, Self, Trying To Change

As you get older, you realize just figuring out how to be nice to the people in your personal sphere is almost more challenging than trying to change the bigger culture.

- Mike White

topic: Nice, People, Challenges, Trying To Change

I'm trying to change the world.

- Kid Cudi

topic: Trying, World, Changing The World, Trying To Change

Are you appalled at existing conditions? Don't waste your energy trying to change conditions from without! Change the Human Heart from within.

- William J. H. Boetcker

topic: Heart, Trying, Waste, Trying To Change

Those that can't change even their toothbrush and pyjamas are trying to change the world! Let us be serious!

- Mehmet Murat Ildan

topic: Change, Trying, World, Toothbrushes, Trying To Change

When you're writing a screenplay every scene needs to change from positive to negative, or negative to positive, and constantly trying to change the values of the movie.

- Sam de Jong

topic: Writing, Trying, Negative, Trying To Change

Music is supposed to be entertaining and if it touches you emotionally, so much the better. Sometimes you do it to save your own life, not anybody else's. That's why I write. I'm not trying to change anybody else's life or the world, I'm trying to keep from blowing my own brains out. That's the real point.

- Guy Clark

topic: Real, Writing, Brain, Trying To Change

The people trying to change others can conveniently be termed the angry, while the people trying to change themselves might be called the guilty, although it would be just as descriptive to speak of the controlling and the dependent, or the paranoid and the repressive, or, inelegantly, the screamers and the criers. In some circles, attaching labels to people rates only a little higher than chicken stealing, because ... a label immediately ends attempts to understand the individual.

- Jo Coudert

source: Jo Coudert (2003). “Advice from a Failure”, p.109, iUniverse

topic: Circles, People, Trying, Trying To Change

Since I'm a novelist I'm the opposite of you - I believe that what's most important is what cannot be measured. I'm not denying your way of thinking, but the greater part of people's lives consist of things that are unmeasurable, and trying to change all these to something measurable is realistically impossible.

- Haruki Murakami

source: FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Oct 01, 2015

topic: Believe, Thinking, Opposites, Trying To Change

The old alchemy, or what was just called alchemy, has a history. Most people, if they've been trained in sciences, think of alchemy as the precursor to chemistry. Back in time, people were called alchemists and they worked for kings and rich people, smelting metal and trying to change base metal into gold, because the king wanted to be richer.

- Fred Alan Wolf

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: Kings, Thinking, People, Trying To Change, Precursor

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

source: "Chris Messina Talks Ruby Sparks, Celeste and Jesse Forever, Argo, the Mindy Project, Damages, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. July 23, 2012.

topic: Girl, People, Trying, Trying To Change

I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

- Faith Evans

source: "Singer Faith Evans Talks Christmas Hip-Hop". Interview with Ed Gordon, www.npr.org. December 21, 2005.

topic: Trying, Widows, Able, Trying To Change

If I started drinking again, there would be a lot of people bringing me pot because I can't handle alcohol. I just am not a good drinker. I get a little alcohol in me and I start trying to change the world, and that's not good. A lot of people are the same way. So that's why I don't drink anymore.

- Willie Nelson

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Drinking, People, Alcohol, Trying To Change

I think really the thing you should focus on is why you're for Ted Cruz, 'cause that's I think probably much more persuasive. If you're trying to change people's minds about Donald Trump, tell 'em why you're for Cruz, 'cause you're not gonna talk a Trumpist out of it. And the reason you're not gonna talk a Trumpist out of it is because they're feeling something really good, and they don't want to let go of that.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Letting Go, Thinking, Focus, Trying To Change

What we learn from the past is that you cannot make peace against people by interfering and - and just launching a war and trying to change a regime without any political solution. So my role is first to avoid any war and try to - to frame the discussion in order to create peace and have a comprehensive peace process and preserve unintelligible and especially in this Middle East region. That's what I tried to do in Lebanon, for instance, by negotiating both with M.B.S., with the Lebanese government.

- Emmanuel Macron

source: Source: www.cbsnews.com

topic: War, Past, People, Trying To Change