I’m sure you’ve heard that you can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.

It’s vital to remember that you can’t change others unless they want to change themselves. You can influence them and facilitate change, but you can’t make them change. And they’ll only decide to change when they have an incentive – such as a better life or a better relationship with you. If they don’t identify a problem with their way of being, they won’t be motivated to change.

The only person you can now or ever change is yourself. The only person that it is your business to control is yourself.

You cannot change someone using fear, degradation, humiliation, or by comparing them to others. It can only be done through love, with love, for love.

Theresa, I know there's a part of you that believes you can change someone, but the reality is that you can't. You can change yourself, and Garrett can change himself, but you can't do it for him.

You cannot change human beings, only God can.

People think they can’t change themselves, but they can.

People think they can change others, but they can’t.

You cannot change what you are, only what you do.

You alone can change yourself, and when you do, then circumstances and people will both seem and be changed.

No amount of control will effect a permanent or desirable change in another person. We can sometimes do things that increase the probability that people will want to change, but we can’t even guarantee or control that.

You cannot change anything in your life with intention alone,

You don't get to change how life changes, just how it changes you.

But you cannot change what you are, only what you do.

Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me.