Trying To Change Quotes

• If a man wants you, nothing can keep him away,If he doesn't want you, nothing can make him stay. Stop making excuses for a man and his behavior. Stop trying to change yourself for a relationship that's not meant to be.
  Slower is better. Never live your life for a man before you find what makes you truly happy..!

  Oprah Winfrey

  Men, Live Your Life, Trying

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• 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

  Life, Change, People Changing

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

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Change, Attitude

  "Everybody's political what's what?" by George Bernard Shaw, Chapter XXXVII, (p. 330), 1944.

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• God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "How Obama's favorite theologian shaped his first year in office" by John Blake, www.cnn.com. February 5, 2010.

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Life Changing, People Changing

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

  Henri Bergson

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

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• All great changes are preceded by chaos.

  Deepak Chopra

  Inspirational, Change, Life Changing

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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

  Woodrow Wilson

  Change, Clever, Christian Inspirational

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

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

  Arnold Bennett

  Change, Moving On, Life Changing

  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

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• 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

  Couple, Moving, Thinking

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• 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

  Country, Men, Talking

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

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• 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

  Thinking, People, Trying

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

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• 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

  People, Trying, Needs

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• 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

  Spiritual, Nice, Journey

  Source: www.mindfulnessbell.org

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• 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

  Years, Self, Feelings

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• 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

  Men, Mirrors, Trying

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

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• 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

  Running, Compassion, Self

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• 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

  Jobs, Character, Responsibility

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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

  Jonathan Davis

  Change, Trying, World

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

  Grover Norquist

  Change, Trying, Nastiness

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

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• 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

  People, Mind, Trying

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

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• 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

  Giving Up, Design, Trying

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

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• 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

  Strong, Trying, Change For The Better

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

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