Fear Of Change Quotes

• I have accepted fear as a part of life - specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back.

  Erica Jong

  Inspirational, Change, Courage

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Jul 06, 2015

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• Time isn't the enemy. Fear of change is. Accept that nothing lasts forever and you'll start to appreciate the advantages of whatever age you are now.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Appreciate, Forever, Enemy

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• Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 18, 2017

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• The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.

  Alan Watts

  Motivational, Change, Moving On

  Alan Watts (1951). “The Wisdom of Insecurity”, Vintage

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

  Mark Twain

  Courage, Fear, Cancer

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• Fear of change is a part of the state of fear man has ever lived in but out of which he has begun to escape. Civilization might be defined indeed as the steps in his escape.

  Elsie Clews Parsons

  Fear, Men, Civilization

  Elsie Clews Parsons (1997). “Fear and Conventionality”, p.37, University of Chicago Press

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• The population suffers from a fear of change, for their conditioning assumes a static identity, and challenging ones belief system, usually results in insult and apprehension, for being wrong is erroneously associated with failure. When in fact, to be proven wrong should be a celebrated, for it is elevating someone to a new level of understanding.

  Peter Joseph

  Inspirational, Change, Fear

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

  Andre Gide

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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  Change your thoughts and you change your world.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Norman Vincent Peale (1970). “Norman Vincent Peale's treasury of courage and confidence”

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• The worst thing you can do is nothing.

  Terry Pratchett

  Motivational, Change, Positive

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• Be the change you want to see.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

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• In our instinctive attachments, our fear of change, and our wish for certainty and permanence, we may undercut the impermanence which is our greatest strength, our most fundamental identity. Without impermanence, there is no process. The nature of life is change. All hope is based on process.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Change, Attachment, Wish

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.162, Penguin

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• Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Change, Inspiring, Break Up

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• I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  "Nike Culture : The Sign of the Swoosh". Book by Robert Goldman, Stephen Papson (p. 49), 1998.

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• Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid

  Robert Liparulo

  Courage, Fear, Bravery

  Robert Liparulo (2009). “House of Dark Shadows”, p.148, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present in this one. There is also the argument that elders have "experience." The problem is that experience teaches fear of change. Experience kills imagination. Experience makes people conservative. What we are facing tomorrow requires the force of imagination, not wisdom from yesterday.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Past, Other Worlds, Civilization

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• Do one thing every day that scares you.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Positive, New Year

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• As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Strength, Confidence

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.11, Pan Macmillan

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  I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "I Can't Accept Not Trying : Michael Jordan on the Pursuit of Excellence". Book by Michael Jordan (p. 129), 1994.

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• The more things change, the more they stay different.

  Melissa de la Cruz

  Change, Different, Grey

  Melissa de la Cruz (2009). “Girl Stays in the Picture”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

  Isabelle Adjani

  People

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• Fear of change was a weakness

  J.R. Ward

  Weakness

  J.R. Ward (2013). “Lover At Last: A Novel of the Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.272, Penguin

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  I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

  Nelson Mandela

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Courage

  Nelson Mandela (2012). “Notes to the Future: Words of Wisdom”, p.18, Simon and Schuster

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• I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

  Michael Jordan

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

  Kelly Clarkson

  Idols, Negative, Bigs

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