Top 100 Change Isn't Easy Quotes
#1. Growth hurts because change isn't easy, that's why they call it growing pains
Tony Gaskins
#2. Change isn't easy ... changing the way you live means changing what you believe about life. That's hard ... When we make our own misery, we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change because the misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.
Dean Koontz
#4. It must be easy to be a liberal. When your policies don't work, you just change the goal posts and say we haven't done enough - and then demand more.
David Limbaugh
#5. Being friends with anyone for 30 years is no easy task - people change, they drift apart, they move on.
Alana Stewart
#6. Grasping the realities of the Middle East is never easy. This is not primarily because they change quickly, but because so much time, effort, and money is spent to prevent reality from breaking through.
Elliott Abrams
#7. People wonder how they are ever going to change their lives, but really it is frighteningly easy.
Chris Cleave
#8. I always want to see films that are startling and amazing. Not just shocking. Shocking is easy to do. But startling in the way that makes you change how you think about things. Those are the movies I like the best.
John Waters
#9. Join us in the fight to defeat the Washington machine. It's fun and easy to get started. You can make a difference and change the direction of our country! Join today.
Rand Paul
#10. Remorse (I did it) is an easy, passive, human reaction, there is no value in it and it changes nothing. Repentance (I will not do it again) is the difficult call to action in a redeemed heart. It has an eternal impact and it can change everything.
William Branks
#11. It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.
Flea
#12. In our contemporary society, one so over-inundated with imagery, it is easy to overlook the power of a single frame to change the way we look at the world, or rally disparate hearts to a single cause. Yet, ours is a society shaped by this very phenomenon.
Steve McCurry
#13. It is not easy for us to change. But it is possible and it is our glory as human beings
M. Scott Peck
#14. I don't feel passionately about politics, i'm not a political person. Is it easy for me to get fired up about someone's position on climate change? No, it's not. On most of these issues, I can see both sides.
Rachel Maddow
#15. Ah, to be a conservative climate change denier. While real scientists must do all the research and engage in heated debates about just how bad things are going to be, the deniers can rest easy in the bliss of willful ignorance.
David Horsey
#16. It is easy to stay the same but it is not easy to change. Most people choose to stay the same all their lives.
Robert Kiyosaki
#17. It is easy to change the landscape of mountains and rivers but it is difficult to change one's nature.
You-Sheng Li
#18. It's not easy to change world views. Faith has its own momentum and belief is comfortable. To restructure reality is traumatic and scary. That is why many intelligent people continue to believe: unbelief is an unknown.
Dan Barker
#19. Design should be easy in the sense that every step should be obviously and clearly identifiable. Simplify elements to make change simple so you can manage the technical risk.
Kent Beck
#20. If you win elections on the theory that government is always bad and will mess up a two-car parade ... a real change-maker represents a real threat. So your only option is to create a cartoon, a cartoon alternative, then run against the cartoon. Cartoons are two-dimensional; they're easy to absorb.
William J. Clinton
#21. Through every victory and every setback, I've insisted that change is never easy and never quick; that we wouldn't meet all of our challenges in one term, or one presidency, or even in one lifetime.
Barack Obama
#22. It's pleasant to get used to the expensive, the soft, the comfortable. Once you're addicted, it's so easy to become a sycophant, to trim the sails of your judgment in order to be kept on. The next step is to change your work to please those in power, and that is death to the sculptor.
Irving Stone
#23. I think it's easy to hold on to this romantic hope that communities such as Niaqornat won't change, because we're in this world where progress is unstoppable, and they're a link to some idealised past.
Sarah Gavron
#24. I thought I could change the world. It took me a hundred years to figure out I can't change the world. I can only change Bessie. And honey, that ain't easy either.
A. Elizabeth Delany
#25. At Christmas, individuals are apportioned their roles in the family script - you're either the funny one or the sensitive one; or you either do the cooking or the washing up. And those roles aren't easy to change.
Tom Hiddleston
#26. Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly.
Leroy Hood
#27. Breathing air is a liberating experience. It freed our ancestors from the constraints of staying wet or having to remain within easy reach of water for refuge, respiration or reproduction. But the biggest change it made in our lives was to expose us to a whole new range of sensory experience.
Lyall Watson
#28. Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.
Richard Madden
#29. If you're trying to change someone you love, you don't love them. It's the oddnesses, the most unique imperfections that you'd miss the most. That's the stuff you can't replace. Everything else is easy to come by.
Crystal Woods
#30. If you don't require the journey to be easy or comfortable or safe, you can change the world
Seth Godin
#31. Even if abortion were made easy or painless for everyone, it wouldn't change the bottom-line problem that abortion kills children.
Randy Alcorn
#32. It all easy. I have been always telling you, my love, that I had no idea of the change being so very material to Hartfield as you apprehended; and now you have Emma's account. I hope you will be satisfied.
Jane Austen
#33. A dreaming vortex is a place where it's easy to change. You come to a dreaming vortex like Hawaii to step from one dream into another, from one world into another, to change, in other words.
Frederick Lenz
#34. MADDIE: Change is good. It's not always easy, but it's good. And it's time I made a few changes.
Ruby Dixon
#35. by a change of scene. The master told me to light a fire in the many-weeks' deserted parlour, and to set an easy-chair in the sunshine by the window; and then he brought her down, and she sat a long while enjoying the genial heat, and, as we expected, revived
Emily Bronte
#36. Nothing is easy. To change or to accept changes is difficult.
Debasish Mridha
#37. It is not easy to watch the world change around you. To see an entire way of life change and change and change again. It isn't easy to watch friends grown old and die, nor is it easy to be constantly moving on from place to place before people begin to wonder why you never age.
Michael Scott
#38. Refrain tonight And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence: the next more easy; For use alomost can change the stamp of nature
William Shakespeare
#39. A good woman's love can change even the angriest of men," he said with an easy grin. "And I had my brothers. I grew tired of holding all that rage. It was exhausting. Love, on the other hand, can give you strength when you think you have no more, and hope when there is none.
Donna Grant
#40. The first step is to penetrate the clouds of deceit and distortion and learn the truth about the world, then to organize and act to change it. That's never been impossible and never been easy.
Noam Chomsky
#41. It's not easy to change things. Things fight back.
Marty Rubin
#42. I was brought up with two sisters, so I do know about a three-way dynamic. It's a complex one, because it's easy for one to get left out and the others to gang up. In my family, we were all pretty up for it, but the dynamics would constantly change.
Anna Chancellor
#43. Change is not always easy when patterns in our lives have existed so long.
Lolly Daskal
#44. Once you find reasons to change, rest of the journey becomes easy.
Sukant Ratnakar
#45. It's so easy to screw up. To make a choice that seems right. Then time passes and you look back and you say, 'How the hell did I do that?' Attitudes change. Insights change. Eventually things you were so damned sure were right become ... incomprehensible.
Kelley Armstrong
#46. Change your focus. Refocus on the desired results Once you acknowledge how easy it is to attract factors in your life that you do not want and accept how effective and simple the law is, you can start using it to your advantage.
Malti Bhojwani
#47. If you want to trick someone with a photograph, there are lots of easy ways to do it. You don't need Photoshop. You don't need sophisticated digital photo-manipulation. You don't need a computer. All you need to do is change the caption.
Errol Morris
#48. Death isn't better. Oh, it's easy to say that now. But when you stand on the ledge and look down into that dark, endless pit, you change your mind. Just like Hobber did. Just like I've done. I think you've seen it too.
Brandon Sanderson
#49. It's easy to be critical of ourselves and other women around us. We stand in front of the mirror and only focus on the things we hate about our body and our appearance. But I encourage you to change that attitude the next time you are in front of the mirror.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#50. There are a lot of differing opinions on that. Some people think you should change out more, but I think changing just 20 percent is less stressful on the aquarium and fish. Once you get used to the regimen, it's pretty easy.
Brian K. Vaughan
#51. Don't let anyone tell you the future is already written. The best any prophet can do is to give you the most likely version of future events. It is up to us to accept the future for what it is, or change it. It is easy to go with the flow; it takes a person of singular courage to go against it.
Jasper Fforde
#52. But it is not that easy, is it? I seek a lasting relationship, something permanent in a world of change, in which all is transitory, ephemeral, and full of pain.
Eldridge Cleaver
#53. There's no how-to guide for how to change the world. But it's easy to get hung up by misconceptions about what it takes to make an impact.
Wendy Kopp
#54. Marriage isn't easy, Andy," he says. "You love someone in a specific time and place. But you have no idea what they'll become. People change. Sometimes, they change so much you hardly even recognize them anymore." For
Matthew Norman
#55. Change is never easy, but always possible.
Barack Obama
#56. luck plays a large role in every story of success; it is almost always easy to identify a small change in the story that would have turned a remarkable achievement into a mediocre outcome.
Daniel Kahneman
#57. It's easy to see why pitchers respect McGwire. If you hit behind him, they're saying that they don't respect you. You have to change their thinking.
Eric Davis
#58. I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution.
Ingrid Betancourt
#59. Growth and change are never easy ... If it were easy, you would have done it long ago.
Lawrence LeShan
#60. He smiled at me, and just like that I was completely happy to be who I was. I knew it wouldn't be easy all the time, but right now it was as simple as sunshine because Nathan was here and had helped me to realize that I was still Ramsey, no matter how much things had changed.
Markelle Grabo
#61. Life is full of tough decisions, and nothing makes them easy. But the worst ones are really your personal koans, and tormenting ambivalence is just the sense of satori rising. Try, trust, try, and trust again, and eventually you'll feel your mind change its focus to a new level of understanding.
Martha Beck
#62. Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.
Peter Marshall
#63. When you know what you want you will be excited about it and give every ounce of effort to making it come true. No excuse or fear will get in your way because peace is found in focus.
Shannon L. Alder
#64. Real change will come when powerful women are less of an exception. It is easy to dislike senior women because there are so few.
Sheryl Sandberg
#65. Change is easy to propose, hard to implement, and especially hard to sustain.
Andy Hargreaves
#68. The trick is remembering that change is as easy as you make it. The trick is remembering that you are the boss of you.
A.S. King
#69. Finding one's place in the world is never easy.
Have courage and be true to who you are.
Remember, those who dare to be different are
Often the ones who change the world.
Christopher Paolini
#70. Change is never easy. We fight to hold on and we fight to let go.
Carolyn Brown
#71. Over time, the games we play can change how we think and what we're capable of. And it's easy to maximize the benefits so the changes are positive.
Jane McGonigal
#72. Most of the producers I work with are decent mixers. We'll wind up in these spots where I'll get the mix back and I'll put a few more pieces of production together and send it back to the mixer. It's so easy to change the entire perspective of the song by changing the mix.
Yukimi Nagano
#73. People don't realize how easy life is to change. You just get on the bus.
Marisha Pessl
#74. Letting go is never easy. Especially when you can't see where you're going to land. But I've learned that sometimes, you just have to throw your weight behind the change. Take the chance that you may fall.
Steph Campbell
#75. It's too easy to complain. A heart of love finds the good, and, if necessary, helps change the bad things. - Zach Davidson -
Gary Chapman
#76. Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them.
Margaret D. Klein
#77. The seeds of self-loathing had been planted when he was very young. It is not easy to change, even when our adult minds know better.
Kat Ross
#78. The leader's prayer written by Pauline H. Peters: God, when I am wrong, make me willing to change. When I am right, make me easy to live with. So strengthen me that the power of my example will far exceed the authority of my rank.
John C. Maxwell
#80. Change is not always easy, but with patience and perseverance, we can find the good in change.
Kim Yannayon
#81. Not easy to state the change you made.
If I'm alive now, I was dead,
Though, like a stone, unbothered by it.
Sylvia Plath
#82. Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others?
Radhe Maa
#83. We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.
Mark Twain
#84. Proactive and productive change is something that does not come easy for most people, yet is one of the main reasons successful people succeed.
Michelle Moore
#85. Change might not be fast and it isn't always easy. But with time and effort, almost any habit can be reshaped.
Charles Duhigg
#86. it is not an easy matter to change suddenly from the butterfly to the busy bee.
Laura Beatty
#87. If you have to change something about you to be in a part, I don't think it's easy to do. You should just pick the part where you can just be yourself.
Lucas Black
#88. Ability to persevere begins with you, the individual. However, change is rarely easy. In fact, sometimes it is downright formidable.
Paul G. Stoltz
#89. It was easy to understand why Sala didn't mind sharing; neither of us ever went there except to change clothes or sleep. Night after night I would sit uselessly at Al's, drinking myself into a stupor because I couldn't stand the idea of going back to the apartment.
Hunter S. Thompson
#90. It is all too easy to mistake passion that can change its mind for fundamentalism, which never will.
Richard Dawkins
#91. That's a funny thing, fame. People definitely do treat you differently. When you begin to be successful, people say, 'Don't go changing.' Well, that's easy to say, but the fact is, you don't change at all - other people do.
Jonathan Rhys Meyers
#93. I'd like to provide information, inspiration, and access to whatever goods and services are needed to make it super easy for everyone to change their lifestyle to a sustainable one.
Daryl Hannah
#94. So easy is it, though many housekeepers doubt it, to establish new and better customs in the place of the old.
Henry David Thoreau
#95. I wanted so badly to believe that love could conquer all. That Bones and I could make things work based on sheer feelings alone, but life wasn't that easy. "If neither of us can change," I said, my heart squeezing, "sooner or later, we'll drive each other away again.
Jeaniene Frost
#96. I was in the drug store the other day trying to get a cold medication ... Not easy. There's an entire wall of products you need. You stand there going,"Well, this one is quick acting but this is long lasting ... Which is more important, the present or the future?"
Jerry Seinfeld
#97. More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves - they can't depend on a particular person, i.e. me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#98. We always hope for the easy fix: the one simple change that will erase a problem in a stroke. But few things in life work this way. Instead, success requires making a hundred small steps go right - one after the other, no slipups, no goofs, everyone pitching in.
Atul Gawande
#99. Change is an easy thing to decide and a difficult thing to do. It is the day-to-day struggle of it that defeats people. Do not despair if old ways look good to you. Despair only if you fall into them too often.
Karleen Koen