Marcus Buckingham Quotes

People don't change. If anything, you get more set in your ways as you get older, not less

It's hard to know exactly how people develop the characters they do. There could be people from humble beginnings that turn into jerks. Some characteristics are just part of that special soul of that human being.

People don't alter. They may with enormous difficulty modify themselves, but they never really change.

People don't change who they are. They only change what they do with it.

People don't change at their core. If you're a good person, you are a good person. What changes is our behavior.

There is always the possibility that people will change. Real change is more rare. You are who you are at a certain age in life you are pretty much a variation of that your whole life. It's conceivable that you will change but it's not likely.

I'd have to say no, people don't change, but they can learn to behave differently.

It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.

People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Some say society must change in order to change people. No, people must be changed in order to change society.

Advent creates people, new people.

We are the same people as we were at three, six, ten or twenty years old. More noticeably so, perhaps, at six or seven, because we were not pretending so much then.

People do not change when you tell them they should; they change when they tell themselves they must.

You can't really make people be any different than what they are.

The endings for all my characters seem sufficiently human and messy for me to feel comfortable with them. In some ways they have only moved an inch, but sometimes an inch is a great distance.

The police are people as well. All those nasty people aren't really nasty if they'd realise it.

Don't try to change people. It won't work, and they will end up resenting you. Only God can change people!

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight.

Mainly because people were what they were and you couldn't change them. most of the time, they couldn't change themselves, even if they were desperate to be somebody different from who they were. So, best keep your distance.

People become who they are. Even Beethoven became Beethoven.

Most people tell themselves these excuses - I've always been this way, how can I possibly change, this is my nature, I can't help it - that are just memes

I still feel like the same person, in every way - it is just some of my surroundings have changed and there are lots of new people in my life.

The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.

Everyone wants to transform, but nobody wants to change.