Top 10+ resist change quotes

Change resistance quotes

While there are many reasons employees resist change, most of these reasons have a common source: Employees reluctance or refusal to change are related to the fear of change.

Leaders can’t control much of the world changing around them but they can control how they respond to how employees feel about a change. Inspirational resist change quotes for your change management initiative:

The key to change …… is to let go of fear – Rosanne Cash

People don’t resist change. They resist being changed – Peter Senge

Unless you are prepared to give up something valuable you will never be able to truly change at all, because you’ll be forever in the control of things you can’t give up – Andy Law

The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday’s logic – Peter Drucker

Remember that on any world the wind eventually wears away the stone, because the stone can only crumble; the wind can change – A.C. Crispin

Where there is power, there is resistance – Michel Foucault

You had better be ready to change your mind when needed, or your mind will change you – Henry B. Wilsonx

Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance – Robert Conklin

When you’re finished changing, you’re finished – Benjamin Franklin

When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves – Victor Frankl

If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude – Maya Angelou

Make sure to avoid these common change management mistakes

Not dealing proactively with resistance to change is one pitfall – but there are many more change management failures.