Changing People Quotes

“It's not necessary to tell all you know. It's not ladylike -- in the second place, folks don't like to have someone around knowin' more than they do. It aggravates them. Your not gonna change any of them by talkin' right, they've got to want to learn themselves, and when they don't want to learn there's nothing you can do but keep your mouth shut or talk their language.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

“I, sometimes, fear that probably I'll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I'll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do.”
― Sanhita Baruah

“Mom always told me, "People will do what they want to do-always. If you don't like how someone is acting or what they are doing, no matter how much you scream yell or cry, you won't change them unless they really want to change.”
― Alison Caiola, The Seeds of a Daisy

“No one needs to hit rock bottom to change. And yet so many people do, only because most of us are unskilled in communicating with ourselves.

Stress, depression, anxiety, insomnia, headaches, illness ... these are all symptoms of a bigger problem. You're trying to tell yourself something. Loudly.

Listen now or listen later. There is no ignoring the call.”
― Vironika Tugaleva

“Trying to change someone, and their views, is like throwing paper into a fire.”
― Anthony Liccione

“You cannot be as E-ffective when you are IN-fected.”
― Johnnie Dent Jr.

“The world will not know peace until we learn to understand each other's emotions”
― Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“I decided to do the easy task of changing situations and conditions by being a hero, than staying back to do the difficult task of changing people by being just a man.”
― Amit Kalantri

“Don't change your morality for the people around you, change the people around you with your morality.”
― Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness

“The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words.”
― Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

“It's not about changing "them," it's about healing YOU.”
― Shannon Tanner, Worthy: The POWER of Wholeness

“If you don’t think it’s nearly impossible to change someone who is not willing to change, just think how hard it is to change yourself, and you are willing.”
― Charles F. Glassman, Brain Drain - The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life

“People change just in a blink! You won’t get any explanation for that. They change in front of your eyes or behind of your eyes. Just they change unconditionally.”
― Salman Aziz

“You never want to try and change someone to fit your expectations because they won't change for long...”
― K. Weikel, Replay: Reboot

“Maybe it’s time to realize that our greatest contributions are not the monuments that we construct, but the lives that we change because we took the time to add to the monument which is them.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“It had nothing to do with changing people—forget that, on a good day you're lucky if you can talk someone into changing their socks.”
― David Sedaris, Naked

“Everyone is correct at their place, the only difference is their priorities.”
― Kedar dhepe

“When you ask someone to be who they aren’t, who they told you they weren’t, even if just for one second, no matter how small it seems to you, and they do, pieces of the person you loved - at least in your presence - disappear. And you are to blame.

The smile is often the first thing to go. Than their patience with you. Then their kindness.”
― Darnell Lamont Walker