You Can't Change People Quotes:

I've discovered that you can't change people. They can change themselves.

- Jim Rohn

topic: People, You Can't Change People, Can't Change People

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

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Interesting Life, Inner Voice

I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination.

- Jimmy Dean

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Uplifting, Positive Change, Inspirational Attitude

You can't change people but you can effect a change in them by your behavior.

- Garrison Wynn

topic: People, Behavior, Can't Change People, You Can't Change People

You can't change how people treat you or what they say about you. All you can do is change how you react to it.

- Nicky Gumbel

source: Twitter post from Mar 11, 2014

topic: Positive, People, Treats, You Can't Change People

If you can't change it.. change the way you think about it

- Mary Engelbreit

topic: Thinking, Way, Live For Yourself, Good Thoughts, My Attitude

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

You can't change people's minds, we are not God. We can do our best to do what we do, whatever job we have to bring sort of goodness out there. But we can't change people. As an artist what I can do is to communicate!

- David LaChapelle

source: Source: www.kaltblut-magazine.com

topic: Jobs, Artist, People, Can't Change People, You Can't Change People

You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

- Jonathan Haidt

source: Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

topic: Dog, People, Mind, Can't Change People, You Can't Change People

actions speak louder than words

- Becca Fitzpatrick

source: Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.659, Simon and Schuster

topic: Inspirational, Suicide, Wisdom, Broken Promises, Influencing People

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

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

- Robert Frost

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Time To Move On

When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails

- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Positive, Positive Change, Nautical

You can't change people, but most importantly, unless you're their momma, you don't even know what's best for them.

- Brandi Carlile

source: "Singer-Songwriter Brandi Carlile: On Leaving a Better World for Her Daughter". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: People, Momma, Can't Change, Can't Change People, You Can't Change People

Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Life Is Simple, Courage To Change

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

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Change, Funny Inspirational, Business, Can't Change People, Politics Funny

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

- Ronald Reagan

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring, Social Good, Inspirational Presidential

You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don’t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take their eyes off of you.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Jun 09, 2013

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Moving On, Makin Money, Feeling Down

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

- Zig Ziglar

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Life, Young Entrepreneurs, Make People Feel Better

the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Making A Difference In The World, Innovation Inspiration

If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Yoga, Social Good, Hunger And Poverty

Love can change a person the way a parent can change a baby- awkwardly, and often with a great deal of mess.

- Daniel Handler

source: "Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid". Book by Daniel Handler, April 24, 2007.

topic: Love, Family, Baby, Sweet Baby, Loving Family

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: Inspirational, Change, Inspiring, Social Power, Social Studies

Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

- Helen Keller

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Joy And Sadness, Inspirational Cancer

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently - they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Crazy, Inspirational Change, Beauty Of Life

You can't change people by removing something. You must create a void and then fill it...

- Richard Bandler

topic: People, Void, Can't Change People, You Can't Change People

Money often costs too much.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Life, Money, Contentment, Inspirational Money, Inspirational Money Making

Things change. And friends leave. Life doesn't stop for anybody.

- Stephen Chbosky

source: "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 1, 1999.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Change, Life Changing Love, Can't Change People

Don't limit yourself. Many people limit themselves to what they think they can do. You can go as far as your mind lets you. What you believe, remember, you can achieve.

- Mary Kay Ash

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Success, Empowering Women, International Business

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

- Steve Jobs

topic: Inspirational, Life, Trust, Future Success, Innovation And Leadership

Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.

- Steve Jobs

source: Commencement Address at Stanford University, delivered 12 June 2005, Palo Alto, CA

topic: Inspirational, Life, Graduation, Job Growth, Inner Life

Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

- Marianne Williamson

topic: Powerful, Deepest Fear, Our Deepest Fear, Empowering Women, Inaugural Speech

Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have.

- Margaret Mead

topic: Inspirational, Change, Kindness, Some People Never Change, Embrace Change

Be the change you want to see in your networks

- James H. Fowler

topic: Want, Managing Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice, Live Life To Its Fullest

Be the change you want to see.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Indian Independence Day, Some Nice

Be the trouble you want to see in the world.

- Joey Comeau

source: "A Softer World". Webcomic by Joey Comeau,

topic: World, Want, Trouble, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

Be the compromise you want to see in the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

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

Sociologically, I think it is the most important thing going on in the world today. Because you can't change people by force. Communism made a great mistake in trying to inflict its beliefs on everybody. People have to find their own understanding, and if you can offer them an example that will inspire, they will come naturally to it. Ananda tries to offer this inspiring example.

- Goswami Kriyananda

source: Source: www.lotusguide.com

topic: Mistake, Thinking, People, Can't Change People, You Can't Change People

If you hear a voice within you say 'you cannot paint,' then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced.

- Vincent Van Gogh

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Inner Voice, Improve Self Esteem

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

If you think you can't, you're right.

- Carol Bartz

topic: Inspirational, Positive, Smart, Thought Of The Day, Best Success

The social intuitionist model offers an explanation of why moral and political arguments are so frustrating: because moral reasons are the tail wagged by the intuitive dog. A dog’s tail wags to communicate. You can’t make a dog happy by forcibly wagging its tail. And you can’t change people’s minds by utterly refuting their arguments.

- Jonathan Haidt

source: Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.48, Vintage

topic: Dog, People, Political, Can't Change People, Political Arguments

All your dreams can come true if you have the courage to pursue them.

- Walt Disney

source: "How to Be Like Walt : Capturing the Magic Every Day of Your Life". Book by Pat Williams, 2004.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Best Success, Young Entrepreneurs

Build what you want to see in the world.

- Jack Dorsey

topic: World, Want, What You Want, Social Responsibility, Managing Change

People say that you can't change people's minds with a movie or book, but how do they get formed in the first place? They get formed by what we see and read. In a certain way, movies are ahead of their times. People make them and don't really know if the audience will respond to them. Once in a while, they do.

- Thom Andersen

topic: Book, People, Mind, Can't Change People, You Can't Change People

Maybe they continued to agree with Archie Bunker - as I said earlier, you can't change people's minds, but you can get them to think.

- Norman Lear

source: Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. April 27, 2005.

topic: Thinking, People, Mind, Bunkers, Can't Change People