Top 1200 Resistance To Change Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

The only reason we stress is something is happening that we decided should not be happening. It is not the circumstance that is the problem. It is our resistance to it.

We constantly change the world, even by our inaction. Therefore, let us change it responsibly.

Politicians, they give the visible aspect of the change, but the change, the root, the anchor are in young people.

The universe exists only through a constant dance of consistency and change. Through consistency, consciousness finds meaning; through change it finds stimulation and expansion. To find consistency within change is to embrace the unfolding flow.

They change scapegoats at the networks more regularly than some people change socks.

People want change. How is Barack going to do it? I think McCain can bring change.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world.

You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.

Instead of wishing things would change, I'm asking God for His strength to make a change.

No matter how liberal or modern a family is, there will always be resistance when someone discloses that they are dating someone.

Lasting change is a series of compromises. And compromise is all right, as long your values don't change.

As society changes, as politics change, as people change, certain songs still seem to resonate.

We're in need for culture change. We're going to change the way you know you look at food, sugar, sleep.

Some of those men in power, we just have to change their faces because we're not going to change their minds.

My cousin, Rip Torn, persuaded me not to change my name. You shouldn't change what you are in the search for success.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

You're afraid, you will just keep making the fear. If you want to change it, you change from your soul.

While no one can change events that occurred in the past, everyone can change attitudes and beliefs about them.

"It's nothing," returned Mrs Chick. "It's merely change of weather. We must expect change."

Resistance to unwanted circumstances has the power to keep those circumstances alive and well for a very long time.

One does not fight to influence change and then leave the change to someone else to bring about.

Simply having rules does not change the things that people want to do. You have to change incentive.

Our approach is very much profiting from lack of change rather than from change.

If we want our laws to change, we need to elect people who are willing to change them.

Deep and sustainable change...requires changes in behavior among those who do not welcome the change.

Women are foils to men. It is hard for women to take a lead role even in NGOs for political resistance.

You never know with me. I change my mind like I change my job. And I do that very often.

To tackle climate change you don't have to reduce your quality of life, but you do have to change the way you live

In a world where change is inevitable and continuous, the need to achieve that change without violence is essential for survival.

You can’t change someone’s behaviour, all you can do is remind them, and hope that Allah will change their heart.

People are afraid of change, but change can also mean possibilities and new things to explore.

In life, unlike in movies, people don't change - what's the word I'm looking for? - absolutely. They change a bit, slowly.

Some people giving orders and others obeying them: this is the essence of servitude. Of course, as Hospers smugly observes, "one can at least change jobs," but you can't avoid having a job - just as under statism one can at least change nationalities but you can't avoid subjection to one nation-state or another. But freedom means more than the right to change masters.

Soul and body, I suggest react sympathetically upon each other. A change in the state of the soul produces a change in the shape of the body and conversely, a change in the shape of the body produces a change in the state of the soul.

You dangle a little bit of change in front of somebody and what do they do? They change right up like a chameleon.

That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.

For people who have... had curve balls thrown at them, it is easier to digest change and digest change in other people. Change only scares the small-minded. The small-minded and me.

As I get older and unavoidably change a bit living as a celebrity, I always promise myself not to change.

I always change my words in everything I do. I make the language fit, because I know the character from the inside out. Often character actors are not in a position to do that, but I do it. I don't change any cue and I never change anybody else's lines, but I make my own words fit my mouth.

Something like a divorce does change you, but children change you more, and now I've had three.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

When a majority of my prayers are for others to change, I've gotten off track. Lord, change this sinner's heart.

There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

Effective leaders of change must serve equally as agents of change and protectors of continuity.

Although the connections are not always obvious, personal change is inseparable from social and political change.

I change the world by changing myself. I am changing the world by loving myself, by enjoying life, by making my personal world a dream of heaven. I change myself, and just like magic, other people start to change.

When the facts change, you change your mind. I know that is a hard concept for people to get sometimes.

If you change the way you tell your own story, you can change the colour and create a life in technicolour.

Suits change a lot - the wide lapel thing, the fashion trends, the trousers change.

We shall never change our political leaders until we change the people who elect them.

Regime change has been an American policy under the Clinton administration, and it is the current policy. I support the policy. But regime change in and of itself is not sufficient justification for going to war--particularly unilaterally--unless regime change is the only way to disarm Iraq of the weapons of mass destruction pursuant to the United Nations resolution.

Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without a transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. Unless transition happens, the change won't work, because it doesn't 'take'.

When you get into recovery after some addiction you have to relearn a lot of perceptions, attitudes and self-awareness if you want to stay clean. You really do change. Change doesn't happen often but to a certain extent in some way, I think when you get into recovery and you stay there, you change.

Big publishers want you to change this and change that. I'd rather go to a little publisher - who needs the tsuris.

My presence is to instigate and incite the people for any change they want, and for not having a change that they don't wish to do.

It is always hard to believe that the will to change something does not produce an immediate change.

I was trying to change things on the outside and you can't. You've got to feel it on the inside and everything else will change.

Why change? If you're happy, and things are going really well at one place, there is no need to change.

There is change in all things. You yourself are subject to continual change and some decay, and this is common to the entire universe.