Top 61 Resist Change Quotes
#1. It is human nature to resist change... but yet, it is human nature to be innovative. Humans are contradicitve based on the fact that innovation requires change.
Faith Tilley Johnson
#2. Just as nature abhors a vacuum, humans resist change. Change will occur; vacuums will be filled.
Nikki Giovanni
#3. People resist change; if they like something, then they want you to keep doing it over and over - but I think if you like what a particular band or artist does, then you should want to see what they're going to do next.
Conor Oberst
#4. Only the extremely ignorant or the extremely intelligent can resist change.
Socrates
#5. To resist change, to try to cling to life, is therefore like holding your breath: if you persist you kill yourself.
Alan Watts
#6. American society has a remarkable ability to resist change, or to take whatever change has taken place and attempt to make it go away.
Nora Ephron
#7. The inventor can't do it all, you've got to change people. We have an enormous capacity to invent super-machinery. But our desire to install the device is weak. Human inertia is the problem, not invention. Something in man makes him resist change.
Thomas A. Edison
#8. At a time when most movements that are thought to be progressive advocate further encroachments on individual liberty, those who cherish freedom are likely to expend their energies in opposition. In this they find themselves much of the time on the same side as those who habitually resist change.
Friedrich August Von Hayek
#9. People often resist change for reasons that make good sense to them, even if those reasons don't correspond to organizational goals. So it is crucial to recognize, reward, and celebrate accomplishments.
Rosabeth Moss Kanter
#11. How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that can break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be.
Elizabeth Lesser
#12. They try to resist change. Power comes from becoming change.
Mohsin Hamid
#13. Cause change and lead; accept change and survive; resist change and die.
Ray Noorda
#14. When we resist change, it's called suffering. But when we can completely let go and not struggle against it, when we can embrace the groundlessness of our situation and relax into it's dynamic quality, that's called enlightenment
Pema Chodron
#16. I've come to see that I have two choices in how I approach change: I can either resist change or be open to what's ahead and feel the peace that "all is well in the universe." When I lean into the latter, I feel excited about the future.
Marci Shimoff
#17. Only weak resist change, brave go ahead and accept it.
Sukant Ratnakar
#18. The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology.
Bill Gates
#19. If you resist change, you resist life.
Sadhguru
#20. The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.
Miles Anthony Smith
#21. People don't resist change. They resist being changed.
Peter M. Senge
#22. Why resist change when it's the main source of your growth?
Robin Sharma
#23. The moment you resist change, you resist existing past your current state of awareness.
Nikki Rowe
#24. We cannot resist change, but we can choose the direction of change.
Kennon Callahan
#25. The More I resist the more I need to change.ins
Renee Wiggins
#26. Crime seems to change character when it crosses a bridge or a tunnel. In the city, crime is taken as emblematic of class and race. In the suburbs though, it's intimate and psychological, a mystery resist to generalization, a mystery of the individual soul.
Barbara Ehrenreich
#27. Whenever culture has gone through a radical change, as ours has - from industrial age to information age - there are people who will deny that things have changed; they resist it and refuse to change.
Daniel Greenberg
#28. Life is nothing but changes. Don't resist changes, but be the vanguard of it.
Debasish Mridha
#29. A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you're in and take advantage of it.
Nikki Giovanni
#30. There is no life without change. The real tragedy is that we are always fearful of change and resist it vehemently.
Debasish Mridha
#32. One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.
Hugh Mackay
#33. I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".
Keith Carter
#34. Change can be beautiful when we are brave enough to evolve with it, and change can be brutal when we fearfully resist.
Bryant H. McGill
#35. Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them; that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao-Tzu
#36. Today I have a choice. I can resist reality and suffer pain or peacefully accept what I cannot change.
Karan Casey
#37. I guess we resist changing, because we are afraid of change.
Spencer Johnson
#38. If nothing is declared unchangeable, then the organization will resist all change.
Tom DeMarco
#39. Try fighting with your head for a change ...
it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.
Harper Lee
#40. Are you on the eve of change? Embrace it. Accept it. Don't resist it. Change is not only a part of life, change is a necessary part of God's strategy. To use us to change the world, he alters our assignments.
Max Lucado
#41. People tend to resist a change into something new and different.
But after it's succeded, they easily say that the change is a must.
Toba Beta
#42. The poverty fighters resent the climate-change folks; climate folks hold summits without reference to biodiversity; the food advocates resist the biodiversity protectors.
They all need to go on safari together.
Thomas L. Friedman
#43. We resist transition not because we can't accept the change, but because we can't accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.
William Bridges
#44. Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities - to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.
Klaus Schwab
#45. The family is constantly changing, as each member changes. Some changes we recognize as developments, and the pleasure they bringusually makes us more adaptable. Some changes threaten, or disappoint other members, who may try to resist the change, or punish someone for changing.
Terri E Apter
#46. It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
Thomas Jefferson
#47. Resist trying to be what other people want you to be. Anyone in your life who tries to change you is really saying: as I can't control myself I will try and control you. By the same token, don't attempt to control other people's behaviour - it's not your place.
David Stafford
#48. Be grateful for holiness when you find it among churchmen, but do not expect it. As Flannery O'Connor wrote, "All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful. Priests resist it as well as others.
Rod Dreher
#49. I believe that we are living in an unprecedented time of change. The real danger for society is that people resist, ignore or run away from massive changes in their lives and consequently do themselves long-term damage.
Adele Theron
#50. As human beings we have a choice: we can resist the change and crumble or we can accept the change, experience the feelings they provoke and then consciously respond with the true light of our power. 3.
Robin S. Sharma
#51. Prosperity can change man's nature; and seldom is any one cautious enough to resist the effects of good fortune.
[Lat., Res secundae valent commutare naturam, et raro quisquam erga bona sua satis cautus est.]
Quintus Curtius Rufus
#52. If the reality is not ideal, resist and refuse the reality and change it no matter how strong it is!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#53. Rather than resist rest and gravitate toward constant motion, let's experiment with letting go.
Gina Greenlee
#55. Change is the only universal law in nature. People resist the universal law of nature. As if they can resist it. And they suffer. People suffer because of their own resistance and rigidness. Otherwise, life if so simple and straight-forward.
His Holiness Divas
#56. Many young activists tend to resist spirituality, thinking that religion has nothing to do with social change and is, in fact, part of the problem.
Adam Bucko
#57. As scary as change can be and as much as I might resist it, there's always some unkown gift that comes out of it. I really never thought you could begin again. You can.
Debra Messing
#58. We resist the gospel because we fear all powers that effect change in us, even as we live in a society that constantly champions progress and development.
R. R. Reno
#59. When a condition or situation that the mind has attached itself to and identified with changes or disappears, the mind cannot accept it. It will cling to the disappearing condition and resist the change. It is almost as if a limb were being torn off your body.
Eckhart Tolle
#60. Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it, and learn how to benefit from it. When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth.
Jack Canfield
#61. Those who resist positive change will find themselves deformed, but those who embrace it will find themselves transformed.
Toni Sorenson
