49 Quotes About Resisting Change

Dealing with change is not always a welcomed thing. These quotes about resisting change will help to motivate you into make a smoother transition and adapt better to a new situation.

“All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.”

“Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.”

“Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.”

“Change is never painful, only the resistance to change is painful.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.”

“Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.”

“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.”

“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.”

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

“He who rejects change is the architect of decay.”

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

“I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I’m used to.”

“I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old Revolutionary maxim. Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.”

“If a projectile were deprived of the force of gravity, it would not be deflected toward the earth but would go off in a straight line into the heavens and do so with uniform motion, provided that the resistance of the air were removed.”

“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.”

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

“Most people don’t question the practice of eating meat. Many of these people care about animals and the environment, some deeply. ”

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

“Often, the greater our ignorance about something, the greater our resistance to change.”

“One of the most common ways to overcome resistance to change is to educate people about it beforehand. Communication of ideas helps people see the need for and the logic of a change.”

“Paralyze resistance with persistence.”

“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.”

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

“Resist any form of oppression.”

“Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.”

“Resistance to change is proportional to how much the future might be altered by any given act.”

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

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

“Resistance to revelation, resistance to becoming conscious of all that dwells within us – high and low, light and dark – is the anti-change factor. It is also the mainspring of all our psychological fears.”

“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.”

“Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.”

“The ego might resist change until a person’s level of discomfort becomes unbearable.”

“The first resistance to social change is to say it’s not necessary.”

“The first step toward change is awareness. The second step is acceptance.”

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

“The key to me is being different not for the sake of being different, but being the most authentic version of what you do. And definitely it takes a willingness to be different, because there was resistance for me early on, and I feel like that’s usually the case when there’s a certain paradigm or trend happening, and you step outside of that.”

“The key to overcoming resistance to change is to frame your actions and continually adjust them as you move forward to so that those who might be affected by any changes see them as useful and beneficial for them. ”

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

“The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.”

“The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.”

“The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.”

“The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress.”

“There is no sin punished more implacably by nature than the sin of resistance to change.”

“There is resistance to change. There’s a resistance to ideas.”

“This is your time and it feels normal to you, but really, there is no normal. There’s only change and resistance to it and then more change.”

“To make the quickest progress, you don’t have to take huge leaps. You just have to take baby steps-and keep on taking them.”

“To the wrongs that need resistance, To the right that needs assistance, To the future in the distance, Give yourselves.”

“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.”

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

Adapting to change requires an ability to handle new things easily and transition into your new role with self assurance.