Changing People Quotes

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You can't grow somebody else up.
All appears to change when we change.
If you want to make enemies, try to change something.
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.

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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing his mind.


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


— Bible, Matthew 7:3

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If a man wants to be of the greatest possible value to his fellow-creatures, let him begin the long, solitary process of perfecting himself.


Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy.  One of them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.
Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call others to order, I must now admit that I need calling to order myself, and that I would do better to set my own house to rights first.
Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle of his freedom of responsibility and must therefore reckon with the most vehement resistance.


You can't save others from themselves because those who make a perpetual muddle of their lives don't appreciate your interfering with the drama they've created. They want your poor-sweet-baby sympathy, but they don't want to change.  This is a truth I never seem to learn.