Top 100 Difficult To Change Quotes
#1. If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.
Aleatha Romig
#2. Valued achievements connect to people at a deeper level - and a deeper level can change behavior that is generally very difficult to change.
John P. Kotter
#3. It is easy to change the landscape of mountains and rivers but it is difficult to change one's nature.
You-Sheng Li
#4. There is wisdom in not letting anyone really know who you are or what you are like. If you define yourself, people hold you in their mind a certain way making it difficult to change.
Frederick Lenz
#5. It also makes the program more difficult to change because prose tends to be more tightly interconnected than code. This style is called literate programming. The
Marijn Haverbeke
#6. Things inanimate have always been more difficult to change than things animate. Their souls are older and stupider and harder to persuade.
Neil Gaiman
#7. If you feel like it's difficult to change, you will probably have a harder time succeeding.
Andrea Jung
#8. It's difficult to change overnight but if you are persistent and take one step at a time you will see results!
Jack LaLanne
#9. It's very difficult to change the perception people have of you.
Kristin Cavallari
#10. Instead, the lesson is that false beliefs, once they've become culturally entrenched - once they've become tribal badges of honor - are very difficult to change, and changing them is no longer simply a matter of educating people.
Joshua D. Greene
#11. It's difficult to change, because I have to admit that I have been previously living in a less compassionate and loving way. Sometimes we just want to be right instead of fully conscious.
Richard Brancatisano
#12. If you accept that human beings are difficult to change, and embrace (rather than curse) the uniqueness that everyone brings to the table, you'll navigate the world with more bliss and effectiveness. And make better decisions, too.
Seth
#13. The most important ingredient of leadership is character. Most of the proficiencies can be learned, but what's inside you is something that's difficult to change.
Jesse Robredo
#14. This crisis started probably due to the freedom they gave to the banks. First President [Ronald] Reagan and then President [Bill] Clinton. So, for [Barack] Obama it is extremely difficult to change now, to find a way to organize this banking system [differently].
Costa-Gavras
#15. A good plan allows for plenty of spontaneity and room for change - but without a plan at all, it's difficult to work toward something significant over time.
Chris Guillebeau
#16. The desire to change the world is a tremendous advantage as you travel down the difficult path ahead because focusing on a lofty goal is more energizing and attracts more talent than simply making a buck.
Guy Kawasaki
#17. The most important and most difficult thing that you can change is your fixed false beliefs.
Debasish Mridha
#18. 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
#19. There's so much there to cultivate an opportunity to change the mindset of how players think, in terms of not lending their power over to just anyone. I've been a victim of that, and it's difficult to rebound from.
Eddie George
#20. Change, no matter how small, requires loss. And the prospect of loss is far more powerful than potential gain. It's difficult to imagine what a change will do to us. This is why we need stories so desperately.
Shawn Coyne
#21. In simple terms, I realised that food is the most fundamental need for a person. In difficult economic times, people's priorities change, and they might be willing to do something that secures for them the lowest possible weekly food bill.
Stelios Haji-Ioannou
#23. For systems in which you already have a lot of hardware and software, change is difficult. That's why apps are so popular.
Vint Cerf
#24. As the time goes by, you change, your learn new things, your attitude is different. For the moment, I'm still enjoying ski racing so much that it would be difficult for me to think about ending my career.
Hermann Maier
#25. The grass is a very big challenge for me. There are these low bounces and different movements, which is very difficult, especially for my height and weight. When the surfaces change, and I start to play on grass, I start to feel it in the lower back and the lower hamstring.
Tomas Berdych
#26. Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.
Carroll Quigley
#27. The more severe the dysfunction you experienced growing up, the more difficult boundaries are for you.
David W. Earle
#28. But it is a very difficult thing to change the future.
The slightest turn of phrase ... action and the human soul.
The future changes direction based on those things.
CLAMP
#29. People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
Bill Gates
#30. To believe that there are difficult or unreachable things, doesn't change the nature of those things, only our position towards them
Daniel Marques
#31. I believe each human being has the potential to change, to transform one's own attitude, no matter how difficult the situation.
Dalai Lama XIV
#32. Her shift in thinking was clearly conflicted. It must have been difficult to disavow something for which she had a deep love and in which she had been immersed so much of her life.
Karen Swallow Prior
#33. As a general rule, it is difficult for people in public life to change their minds. There is an immediate rush to portray politicians as "flip-floppers" when they shift position on anything, even if they do so following a careful consideration of an issue rather than a meeting with a pollster.
Anonymous
#34. Requesting a change of environment was an extremely difficult decision. After a tremendous amount of reflection and numerous conversations with my family, it made the most sense to seek a change.
Dany Heatley
#35. How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.
Barbara Pym
#36. Fulfilment does not mean our difficult emotions disappear; it means we change our relationship with them.
Russ Harris
#37. In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.
Robert Sexton
#38. One of my experiences around feminist risk and change is that it's difficult, if not impossible, to put new wine into old wineskins.
Nancy Ruth
#39. The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.
Amelia Earhart
#40. We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
Naguib Mahfouz
#41. Don't change yourself for anyone, you may struggle a lot to do so...
When you are completely changed, people wants the old one to get back again, which would be a difficult task ever for you...
Giridhar Alwar
#42. Nothing is easy. To change or to accept changes is difficult.
Debasish Mridha
#43. The speed of change today is faster than the human psyche seems able to handle, and it's increasingly difficult to reconcile the rhythms of our personal lives with the rapidity of a twenty-four-hour news cycle.
Marianne Williamson
#44. Until teachers get their due it is difficult to bring about a change.
Narendra Modi
#45. It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.
Donna Freitas
#46. When all things go bad, do not think so badly about all things, instead think about the things that made all things went bad and change something!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#47. So, first you have to be able to play with a metronome. Then you take your freedom. If you play in an orchestra, you got to watch the conductor, he is like a metronome, but it is more difficult because he can change rhythms.
Ruggiero Ricci
#48. Initiating is really and truly difficult, and that's what leaders do. They see something others are ignoring and they jump on it. They cause the events that others have to react to. They make change.
Seth Godin
#49. I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.
Jill Scott
#50. There's a good reason why change can be difficult: The world doesn't always want what you want.
Chip Heath
#51. Unfortunately, our existing traditional thinking habits insist that you must attack something and show it to be bad before you can suggest a change. It is more difficult to acknowledge that something is excellent and then to ask for change because although it is excellent, it is not enough.
Edward De Bono
#52. Change is hard, difficult, painful, and often messy
David W. Earle
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#54. Look for solutions, instead of being difficult; be more thoughtful, instead of allowing anger to burn you out. Look at things from a different perspective, embrace change, look out for opportunities and you will feel much more in control.
Steve Backley
#55. There is no reason to change this system. I don't think we'll abandon it. For us the most important thing is to be compact in the back. That's the kind of game we have to play here and it will be very difficult to beat us.
Oliver Kahn
#56. Of course they were saying: No doping! But as a rider, it's difficult to believe that things can really change from one day to the next.
Patrik Sinkewitz
#57. There is nothing so difficult or so dangerous as to undertake to change the order of things.
Niccolo Machiavelli
#58. I know that change is difficult, and comes slowly, and that it is the work of many days strung together in a long line until the origin of them is forgotten.
Veronica Roth
#59. There is nothing in life so difficult that it cannot be overcome. This faith can move mountains. It can change people. It can change the world. You can survive all the great storms in your life
Norman Vincent Peale
#60. We're putting 70 million tonnes of pollution into the atmosphere every day, trapping an enormous amount of extra heat from the sun inside the earth's atmosphere. It's threatening to push the planet past a tipping point beyond which climate change would be difficult to stop
Al Gore
#61. One can change the small minds, but it is tad difficult to do it with the small heart whose soul is in small mind only.
Anuj
#62. To change your mind about something is always difficult. I think that people who are big enough to admit they were wrong can be counted on your fingers.
Francoise Gilot
#64. Writing is medicine. It is an appropriate antidote to injury. It is an appropriate companion for any difficult change.
Julia Cameron
#65. It's not as simple as that. There's no change I could make that would stop them recognizing who I am eventually. It's difficult to explain, but they'd know.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#66. Victims are also less likely to take initiative because they feel outcomes are not in their hands anyway. An organization filled with victims will generally have low morale, have more risk-averse behavior, and find it difficult to implement change.
John Izzo
#67. I learned to take those experiences that were difficult in my life and in the adversity that I had overcome to use it for a positive change.
Dominique Moceanu
#68. It takes time to change established mindset. It is a difficult task. But we have five years. This is not about Modi ... Modi is only one of its 1.2 billion people ... This is a people's task.
Narendra Modi
#69. One of the reasons it has seemed so difficult for a person to change his habits, his personality, or his way of life, has been that heretofore nearly all efforts at change have been directed to the circumference of the self, so to speak, rather than to the center.
Maxwell Maltz
#70. To change, that is the most difficult thing to accomplish.
Isabelle Adjani
#71. If Greece had gone through a very normal political life, I may have not been in politics. But just the fact that I lived through huge upheavals and very difficult struggles and polarization and the barbarism of dictatorships - that made me feel that we had to change this country.
George Papandreou
#72. Filmmaking is a difficult process. There are the logistics of making a film. You have to do your part, and then change the entire thing around to do someone else's part. A lot of the magic is lost, in between that, and you have to figure out how to get it back.
Aaron Eckhart
#73. However difficult it may be to accept what happens to us, one must understand that moments such as this give us the possibility for radical change in our behavior.
Paulo Coelho
#75. Change is difficult, but necessary for salvation. Turn from your sins and acknowledge Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Let Him take control of your life. He won't let you down. He's not you. He's God.
Calvin W. Allison
#76. Choices can change our lives profoundly. The choice to mend a broken relationship, to say "yes" to a difficult assignment, to lay aside some important work to play with a child, to visit some forgotten person - these small choices may affect many lives eternally.
Gloria Gaither
#77. I have learned to accept the things I don't approve and those I cannot change and I have learned to release and to love those who did the most hurtful things in my life. I must admit, it is the most difficult lesson to contain but it's worth it.
Euginia Herlihy
#78. In the case of climate change, the threat is long-term and diffuse and requires broad international action for the benefit of people decades in the future. And in politics, the urgent always trumps the important, and that is what makes it a very difficult and challenging issue.
Martin Rees
#79. It was difficult being a teacher and out of the closet in the '50s. By the time I retired, the English department was proud of having a gay poet of a certain minor fame. It was a very satisfactory change!
Thom Gunn
#80. The attraction of New Year is this: the year changes and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult however to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page. We are creatures of faith, like it or not.
R. Joseph Hoffmann
#81. A life of living free and taking endless satisfaction from a person's promiscuous meanderings entails intermittently retooling oneself to meet a desired future. Perhaps the most difficult challenge of life is detecting when the ground moves beneath us and then nimbly shifting our mental perspective.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#82. A talk show is difficult because the formula is always the same: there's a host and there's guests. Really what you can change is only so much. So, I don't have any pre-interviews, which forces real conversation.
Jenny McCarthy
#83. A person's integrity develops early in life. Once formed, it is difficult to alter, change, or improve.
Scott K. Edinger
#84. I've been through some very difficult stages in my life, but I wouldn't change anything.
Greta Scacchi
#85. Innovations usually begin life with an attempt to solve a specific problem, but once they get into circulation, they end up triggering other changes that would have been extremely difficult to predict. This is a pattern of change that appears constantly in evolutionary history.
Steven Johnson
#86. Certainly, a gallery has to sell your work, so they'll be very frightened of you doing anything too different, and that can be difficult, but they can also recognize the need to change. Usually, if you just go and do it, and other people like it, it will still get recognized.
Catherine Yass
#87. An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.
Eric Shinseki
#88. At times we wish that these clouds never came our way for all they bring with them is misery but on others they bring relief.
It is their absence that is difficult to get by, to fill, for autumn is near.
But then seasons do change.
Chirag Tulsiani
#89. Every time you overcome a difficult challenge you will have a story and that story is what changes lives.
Farshad Asl
#90. Learning means change and change is usually difficult.
Herman L Glaess
#92. A philosophy may explain difficult things, but has no power to change them. The gospel, the story of Jesus' life, promises change.
Philip Yancey
#94. People Underestimate their capacity for change. There is never a right time to do a difficult thing
John Porter
#95. I am very passionate about what I do; I give it 200 percent, and I don't think it will ever change. But I've realised that, as an actor, you have to give it your best and let it go. That's the most difficult journey, and it comes with time.
Shahid Kapoor
#96. Change is difficult, but it can be managed when you stay aware of the power of your choices, even if it's simply your attitude.
Michael Thomas Sunnarborg
#97. Choosing to break up your family is one of the most difficult decisions you will make in a lifetime. But once you have come to it; it will be with certainty. Certainty that you are ready to embrace the changes, the challenges and the joys of starting a new life.
Lisa Thomson
#98. Depending on what my job requirement is, my techniques change. If something is incredibly difficult to connect to, and painful, then I have to do a lot of work to connect to that and not joke around or lose sight of my job.
Adrien Brody
#99. It is difficult to move on when your surroundings stay the same.
Katja Michael
#100. When it becomes more difficult to suffer than to change ... you will change.
Robert Anthony
