Resistance is a common response to change. We all feel some ambivalence towards change. Basically, resistance is trying to avoid uncomfortable feelings that don’t go away. It’s a little bit like knowing the truth, pretending we don’t but eventually acceding to it. It’s a time-delaying tactic until we are ready. May these Resistance Quotes On Success inspire you to take action so that you may live your dreams.
1. “Stress happens when your mind resists what is. The only problem in your life is your mind’s resistance to life as it unfolds.” Dan Millman
2. “Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” Mark Twain
3. “To the wrongs that need resistance, to the right that needs assistance, to the future in the distance, give yourselves.” Carrie Chapman Catt
4. “Procrastination is the most common manifestation of resistance because it’s the easiest to rationalize.” Steven Pressfield
5. “Our whole life is set up in the path of least resistance. We don’t want to suffer. We don’t want to feel discomfort. So the whole time, we’re living our lives in a very comfortable area. There’s no growth in that.” David Goggins
6. “Out of resistance comes strength.” Napoleon Hill
7. “To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting.” Sun Tzu
8. “The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.” Eckhart Tolle
9. “Where there is power there is resistance.” Michel Foucault
10. “I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.” Friedrich Nietzsche
11. “When you experience resistance, you find the lessons that you are meant to learn.” Jon Gordon
12. “The resistance that you fight physically in the gym and the resistance that you fight in life can only build a strong character.” Arnold Schwarzenegger
13. “The path of least resistance is the path of the loser.” H. G. Wells
14. “Resistance is thought transformed into feeling. Change the thought that creates the resistance, and there is no more resistance.” Robert Conklin
15. “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.” Sam Hunt
16. “Resistance to change is always the biggest obstacle.” Chris Paine
17. “Rejection is a common occurrence. Learning that early and often will help you build up the tolerance and resistance to keep going and keep trying.” Kevin Feige
18. “The goal of any true resistance is to affect outcomes, not just to vent. And the only way to affect outcomes and thrive in our lives is to find the eye in the hurricane and act from that place of inner strength.” Arianna Huffington
19. “Resistance is the secret of joy.” Alice Walker
20. “If you want to be the best, you can’t take the path of least resistance. Every morning, you wake up, and your mind tells you it’s too early, and your body tells you you’re a little too sore, but you’ve got to look deep within yourself and know what you want and what you’re striving for.” Antonio Brown
21. “The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.” Thomas Paine
22. “At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.” Maya Angelou
23. “Compassion literally means to feel with, to suffer with. Everyone is capable of compassion, and yet everyone tends to avoid it because it’s uncomfortable. And the avoidance produces psychic numbing – resistance to experiencing our pain for the world and other beings.” Joanna Macy
24. “Human interaction is the key force in overcoming resistance and speeding change.” Atul Gawande
25. “Most of us have two lives: the life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.” Steven Pressfield
26. “Every moment of resistance to temptation is a victory.” Frederick William Faber
27. “What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.” Jiddu Krishnamurti
28. “If we are to be happy, we must first react against our tendency to follow the line of least resistance, a tendency that causes us either to remain as we are, or to look primarily to activities external to ourselves for what will provide new impetus to our lives.” Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
29. “Sometimes there’s truth in old cliches. There can be no real peace without justice. And without resistance there will be no justice.” Arundhati Roy
30. “The more important a call to action is to our soul’s evolution, the more Resistance we will feel about answering it. But to yield to Resistance deforms our spirit. It stunts us and makes us less than we are and were born to be.” Steven Pressfield
31. “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.” Robert Kennedy
32. “Never forget: This very moment, we can change our lives. There never was a moment, and never will be, when we are without the power to alter our destiny. This second, we can turn the tables on Resistance. This second, we can sit down and do our work.” Steven Pressfield
33. “Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.” Noam Chomsky
34. “Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen and go with it, and you will actually go through it, and it’s a lot less stressful.” Mike D
35. “Resistance is a result of our mind being attached to having things a certain way rather than the way they actually are. It is a mental habit of the ego that we need to become aware of in order to see the consequences. Only then can we see into our thought system and realize that nothing could be more of a waste of time than to resist and complain about what already is.” Lee L Jampolsky
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