Resistance To Change Quotes

“Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end.”
― Elizabeth Gilbert, City of Girls

“Even though change is an important part of growth, we still face a hard time liking it. We try to resist it for as long as we can before giving up. Not just in our personal lives, but even in our professional lives”
― Pooja Agnihotri, 17 Reasons Why Businesses Fail :Unscrew Yourself From Business Failure

“The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.”
― Wilhelm Reich, Listen, Little Man!

“The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable. A person can employ logic to overcome the ego’s defense mechanism and intentionally integrate needed revisions in a person’s obsolete or ineffective beliefs and behavior patterns. The subtle sense that something is amiss in a person’s life can lead to a gradual or quick alteration in a person’s conscious thoughts and outlook on life. Resisting change can prolong unhappiness whereas implementing change can establish internal harmony and instate joy in a person’s life.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Resist any form of oppression.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!

“Every emotion in the human spectrum is actually a teacher that is here to show us the degree in which we are either resisting life or flowing with life.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“Her excitement grew as she tried to cut the rope that fastened Leonard to the earth. Woven of bitter experience, it resisted her.”
― E.M. Forster, Howards End

“The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“People don't change. The world carries on spinning inexorably around but people don't spin with it. They dig their heels into the shifting sand and cling on for dear life.”
― Tamar Cohen, The Mistress's Revenge

“When you are trying to change the questions, you have to realize that many people are quite resistant to such a change. They like the answers they have.”
― Stanley Hauerwas, Hannah's Child: A Theologian's Memoir

“Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let’s experiment with letting go.”
― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

“When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead,
and have fun with what happens.”
― Gina Greenlee, Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road

“Everything that brings us well being is achieved through allowing ourselves to flow with life and be in harmony. Pain happens, it is our attachment to the pain and our resistance to change that causes suffering.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create organizations with growth cultures.”
― Paul Gibbons, The Science of Successful Organizational Change: How Leaders Set Strategy, Change Behavior, and Create an Agile Culture

“Man will fight and resist what they do not understand, only the meek seeks to know by humility”
― Oluseyi Akinbami

“Most suffering comes from the failure to adapt and a resistance to change.”
― Debasish Mridha

“Light and flow is what shifts the world’s vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.”
― Alaric Hutchinson, Living Peace: Essential Teachings For Enriching Life

“Meaningful, lasting change only happens when the pain of the status quo finally outstrips the fear or the anticipated pain of the change we seek.”
― David Taylor-Klaus

“Of course there is always resistance, always a drag on movement toward better things. The dead hand of the past clutches us by way of living people who are too frightened to accept change.”
― Kim Stanley Robinson, The Ministry for the Future

“Change is the truth of life. The only thing that causes pain is resistance to change. The way to growth is to accept it and conquer it with a tranquil mind.”
― Amit Ray, World Peace: The Voice of a Mountain Bird

“Some of those who are resisting change most strongly are only doing so because they care. They’re the ones you need to be listening to.”
― A.J. Sheppard, The Incredible Transformation of Gregory Todd

“The mind is a focusing and decision-making mechanism. We can focus on our spirit and decide to honour the voice of Truth, thus becoming free in the hands of God. Or we can focus on the world and decide to take the path of least resistance, thus becoming puppets in the hands of others. There is no other choice. Both come with a price, but the first brings life and the other brings death.”
― Dragos Bratasanu, The Pursuit of Dreams: Claim Your Power, Follow Your Heart, and Fulfill Your Destiny

“executives are often reluctant to accept the need for change; they may have a vested interest in the status quo, or they may feel that time will eventually vindicate their previous choices. Indeed, when we ask executives what prompts them to seek out blue oceans and introduce change, they usually say that it takes a highly determined leader or a serious crisis.”
― W. Chan Kim, Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

“Sometimes the pandemonium of life's imperfections leads you to the perfect peace of your own unconditional acceptance.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones

“Der Punkt ist, es hilft, wenn Leute sich gegen die wehren, es gibt allen Hoffnung. Das ist mir früher immer aufgefallen, wenn du es getan hast, Harry.”
― Neville Longbottom

“We do not usually surrender the intellectual system of a lifetime for one bit of information that does not fit.”
― Stephen Jay Gould

“Single facts almost never slay worldviews, at least not right away.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms: Essays on Natural History

“Resistance can also be a reminder to go slow, seek compassion, and take some extra time to integrate a new idea.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice

“The key is having respect for resistance when it comes up for us, being kind to ourselves, taking breaks, and trusting our instincts about our own pace, and what is in our best interest.”
― Laurie E. Smith, Leap With Me: A Creative Path to Finding and Following Your True Voice