Best 23 quotes in «resistance to change quotes» category

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.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

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.

The gap between thought and action, between belief and will, prevents us solving our most pressing individual and societal problems.

Why did people ignore the lessons of history and their own senses, deny a law of life immutable as the seasons, and erect twisted barriers against it in their minds? He didn't know why, but they did. They wept for the goodness of half-imaginary yesterdays, yesterdays beyond altering, instead of anticipating and helping to shape the good of possible tomorrows. They found things to blame for the flow of events they wanted to stop and could not. They blamed God, their wives, government, books, fanciful combinations of unnamed men--sometimes even voices in their own heads. They lived tortured and unhappy lives, trying to dam Niagara with a teacup.

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.

When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead, and have fun with what happens.

Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful

Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.

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.

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you.

Man will fight and resist what they do not understand, only the meek seeks to know by humility

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.

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.

Light and flow is what shifts the world’s vibration, not the stagnation and resistance that comes with opposition.

Most suffering comes from the failure to adapt and a resistance to change.

People who appear to be resisting change may simply be the victim of bad habits. Habit, like gravity, never takes a day off.

Resistance to change" is our fine ability to create reasons to crib and criticize.

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.

Resist change at your own peril, Vivian. When something ends, let it end.

Resistance to change should be a thing of the past if we could develop growth mindsets and create organizations with growth cultures.

Resist any form of oppression.

Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let’s experiment with letting go.