Top 100 Change Fear Quotes
#1. When we don't fear change, stress disappears. When we accept change, fear disappears.
Debasish Mridha
#2. Fear and sorrow inhibit action; anger generates it. When you learn to make proper use of your anger, you can change fear and sorrow to anger, then turn anger to action. That's the body's secret of internal alchemy.
Dan Millman
#4. We fear disturbance, change, fear to bring to light and to talk about what is painful. Suffering often feels like failure, but it is actually the door into growth.
May Sarton
#5. What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.
Simon Travaglia
#6. Love is better than hate.
Faith is greater than fear.
Having positive vibes is better than holding on to negative ones. Learn to stay positive. Choose faith over fear and love over hate. Change your perspective. Change your life and change your world.
Kemi Sogunle
#7. Emotions are subject to change, they make one irrational instead of logical, and are impossible to predict. Fear, anger, frustration. Lust, jealousy, hate. And yes, even love, are to be avoided.
Tiffany Snow
#8. They seek the edges, because it is the edges that ultimately lead us. A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.
Laurie Beth Jones
#9. Until the fear of separation is faced there can be only a life of illusion, where nothing real can exist. Until this happens there can be no knowing the stillness of peace, which is to change, in the very near future, for all humanity. The illusion of separateness can not continue to exist.
Donna Guillemette
#10. The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.
Jim DeMint
#11. There is no reprieve when you have a broken mind; cease-fires are rare. Even on good days,
you know everything could change on a dime. Fear is your constant shadow
Barbara Claypole White
#12. Be a damn fire eater now. He'd seen it in the war work the same way. More of a change than any loss of virginity. Fear gone like an operation. Something else grew in its place. Main thing a man had. Made him into a man. Women knew it too. No bloody fear.
Ernest Hemingway,
#14. Sometimes I fear that even as a People when we take one step forward, we reel backwards ten times fold. I don't even think on the Precipice of Change will we truly move forward ... It will most definitely take a Miracle.
Solange Nicole
#15. I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear of that change. What will happen then? I have the fear that something unexpected may occur.
Tatsuhiko Takimoto
#16. The more I can accept the fact that change is moving all the time, and that the change I am experiencing right now is just the change of this moment and that this moment will change into the next and the next, the less need I will have to clutch in fear.
Sharon Weil
#17. Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
Aberjhani
#18. With the spirit of my administration, New York City is poised for dramatic change. The era of fear has had a long enough reign.
Rudy Giuliani
#19. 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
#20. There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.
Michael Crichton
#21. The empty spaces of your soul are the ones you search for, pray for and want so desperately to be filled. They are also the spaces that will never be filled, until you are ready to do something you have never done.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. You know where this Yaqui girl is going to be in a few years if she doesn't change? She'll still be there, same as always in her old neighborhood
a nobody with nothing. And guess what? That's her worst fear.
Meg Medina
#23. Today masses of black women in the U.S. refuse to acknowledge that they have much to gain by feminist struggle. They fear feminism. They have stood in place so long that they are afraid to move. They fear change. They fear losing what little they have.
Bell Hooks
#24. It's interesting when you read the debates in parliaments between MPs about whether they should give women a vote. It's a lot of fear; it is fear of change. It's fear if women get to vote, family structures will break down. Women will stop having children. Women won't vote for war.
Sarah Gavron
#25. Two reasons why people hate and/or fight change: (1) People fear the unknown; and (2) There are always people profiting from how things are.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#26. There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.
Moshe Kasher
#27. Those who won our independence by revolution were not cowards. They did not fear political change. They did not exalt order at the cost of liberty.
Louis D. Brandeis
#28. We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
Robert Kennedy
#29. The Battle of Waterloo is a work of art with tension and drama with its unceasing change from hope to fear and back again, changewhich suddenly dissolves into a moment of extreme catastrophe, a model tragedy because the fate of Europe was determined within this individual fate.
Stefan Zweig
#30. It is when you are at your lowest, when you are broken and fearful of change, that you must learn to silence the voices of caution in your mind and leap forth to continue on your journey, further than you thought possible, and pounce on that prize you seek.
S.A. Bouraleh
#31. The more bare a life is, the more we fear change.
Graham Greene
#32. Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
Phil Crosby
#33. I necessarily fear change except that it's so seldom for the better. It's just that I can live with any number of things going straight to hell as long as these streams continue to hold up. If this amounts to living in a fool's paradise, don't waste your time trying to explain that to the fool.
John Gierach
#34. God was in control. She had nothing to fear. No matter what happened next or how the outcome played in their lives, whatever triumph or tragedy might take place, God loved them. Nothing could ever change that.
Karen Kingsbury
#35. If there's any redeeming quality that I can find in running away from something, it's that I'm on my feet. Now all I've got to do is alter my direction.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#36. Change your ways when fear seizes," he had said, "for it usually means you are doing something wrong.
Jean Craighead George
#37. If you live your life in fear and had the opportunity to change. . .could you muster the strength?
P.C. Chinick
#38. They think the government shows people everything - how to work, study, eat, sleep and that's it. They are afraid of change. They do not understand that if you want to do something, you should do it. You are free, people, free!
Anton Krotov
#39. Change is an opportunity to grow. Change is not an adversity to fear.
Debasish Mridha
#40. In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change
without fear.
Debra Messing
#42. Everything can change, fluctuate, go into reverse. They strike without much warning, it any at all. It is the curse of the human mind, convincing us that we live in a bubble safe from change.
Leigh Hershkovich
#43. We must throw out the old, fear-based thought-forms and evolve, and begin to live as higher beings of compassion.
Bryant McGill
#44. I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution.
Ingrid Betancourt
#45. Change like a tree
When it is winter
Don't complain or fear
Just wait for the spring
To bloom and sing
Debasish Mridha
#46. One mushroom cloud would change history. My deepest fear is that this is exactly what they Al Qaeda intend.
George Tenet
#47. A culture must be reasonably stable, but it must also change, and it will presumably be strongest if it can avoid excessive respect for tradition and fear of novelty on the one hand and excessively rapid change on the other.
B.F. Skinner
#48. My friends, love is better than anger. Hope is better than fear. Optimism is better than despair. So let us be loving, hopeful and optimistic. And we'll change the world.
Jack Layton
#49. Low key change helps the human mind circumnavigate the fear that blocks success and creativity.
Robert Maurer
#50. A warrior fears the battle he missed. More than any fight he can make his own, he fears the fight that's gone, that ended without him, that no feat of arms can change.
Mark Lawrence
#51. We resist the gospel because we fear all powers that effect change in us, even as we live in a society that constantly champions progress and development.
R. R. Reno
#52. If we probe what's behind our assumptions, what we find isn't knowledge or wisdom. It's fear. We're afraid that other people's ideas will make us look less than. We're afraid that if we make a change, a product won't come in on time.
Biz Stone
#53. The real problem is that most people fear failure, and thus take no action. They really they should be fearful of their thoughts that cause their failure to take action!
Tony Dovale
#54. I know everything is about to change, and I fear that one day I will long for this minute before anything is said, that I will want to travel back in time and undo what's coming next.
David Levithan
#55. What you give meaning to is what causes your emotion. Before you react know why you are giving something so much energy or fear. When you begin to understand why you give things meaning you can begin to change how you react and why you do what you do.
Shannon L. Alder
#56. They understood that the innate emotions of humans were mutable. Anger didn't have to lead to violence, hate to cruelty, fear to oppression. There was a space for change between what words were said and what deeds were done.
Ronlyn Domingue
#57. Taking fear seriously is not easy. A lot of people's response to fear is "Don't worry so much, it's crazy." But some things absolutely deserve our fear, and climate change is first among them.
Margaret D. Klein
#58. Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Isabel Allende
#59. Live in hope. Because things do happen. Things do change. Worry really is futile. Don't fear the future. Dreams do come true.
Miranda Hart
#60. Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer - anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.
Kat Lahr
#62. I refused to change the way I practiced my faith or to let fear stop me from carrying out what I believed in.
Shelina Zahra Janmohamed
#63. Change is neither good nor bad. It only creates a different situation.
Daniel Egger
#64. You will find there are times you must grasp your life with both hands and forcefully steer it in a new direction and then strain to hold your course until the storms of fear, weakness, and doubt abate.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#65. Every individual suffers from the fear of failure, but you can change your destiny only when you overcome it.
Anupam Kher
#66. Paranoia is transmissible from mind to mind, but it does not go by the route of reason. It can therefore change its rationalization while remaining essentially the same.
William Nicholls
#68. Mother, I share your concern, but I do not know how to be afraid of what I cannot change.- Sari
Ray Anyasi
#69. I had not said anything about what had happened the day before - about being scared down to my very bones when I thought they had left me. I don't know what came over me. Ever since my mother left us that April day, I suspected that everyone was going to leave, one by one.
Sharon Creech
#70. There is enough love and good will in our movement to give energy to our struggle and still have plenty left over to break down and change the climate of hate and fear around us.
Cesar Chavez
#71. When we hide from the world in this way, we feel secure. We may think we have quieted our fear, but we are actually making ourselves numb with fear. We surround ourselves with our own familiar thoughts, so that nothing sharp or painful can touch us.
Chogyam Trungpa
#72. The only way to find peace is to face the unknown and trust that God has heard your tears.
Shannon L. Alder
#73. The greatest disaster of self; comes not with experience of failure, but the fear gained belief; about what you think you cannot achieve
Nikki Rowe
#74. The older you are, the more you fear change, even if you think you're in charge. Especially if you think you're in charge. (Adam)
Patricia Briggs
#75. We can look at any experience in two ways: through the eyes of lack, or the eyes of plenty. Fear sees limits, while love sees possibilities. Each attitude will be justified by the belief system you cherish. Change your allegiance from fear to love, and love will sustain you wherever you walk.
Alan Cohen
#76. To hope is to gamble. It's to bet on your futures, on your desires, on the possibility that an open heart and uncertainty is better than gloom and safety. To hope is dangerous, and yet it is the opposite of fear, for to live is to risk.
Rebecca Solnit
#77. How often is my tidy and well-appointed world nothing but the thin veneer of an imagination that I've chosen to use in the service of denial, rather than a gift I've chosen to exercise out of a passion for change?
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#78. It's hard to salvage jettisoned cargo and, if it is retrieved, it's usually irreparably damaged. And I fear that when you can afford to fish up the honor and virtue and kindness you've thrown overboard, you'll find they have suffered a sea change and not, I fear, into something rich and strange.
Margaret Mitchell
#79. Now U2's not my favorite band, but I do respect them, and in the same way I respect Bowie: They change without fear of change.
Trent Reznor
#80. We can follow a steady upward course in a world of change without fear, welcoming opportunities
Henry B. Eyring
#81. Everything you've ever wanted is on the other side of fear.
George Adair
#82. I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.
Chris Hadfield
#84. I fear that light touch regulations that have allowed the Internet to prosper will now be replaced by a heavy hand that stifles innovation and does not adapt well to change. The Internet is not broken.
Marsha Blackburn
#86. Most of us fear change. Even when our minds say change is normal, our stomachs quiver at the prospect. But for strategists and managers today, there is no choice but to change.
Robert Waterman Jr.
#87. There will be no guilt, no repentance, because these things never change people. People remain the same; they just go on changing their outer garb, their form. Substantially, nothing changes through guilt, through fear,
Osho
#88. Sometimes the one thing you need for growth is the one thing you are afraid to do.
Shannon L. Alder
#89. In times of change and danger, when there is a quicksand of fear under one's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present. John Dos Passos
George F. Will
#90. Do what you love. Love what you do. Take less. Give more. Never quit. Never follow. Be passionate. Be bold. Be honest. Respect people. Respect the environment. Always bring out the best in your family and friends. Change is the only constant. Fear is an illusion. Attitude is everything.
Sonnie Trotter
#91. Look. Studies show FEAR sets attitudes/tolerance to change. Fearful people reject foreign, alien, strange. Circle wagons. Pull in horizons. Horizons of time. Of tolerance. Of risk. Of Dreams.
David Brin
#92. If you want to change your life, begin by changing your words. Start speaking the words of your dreams, of who you want to become, not the words of fear or failure.
Robert Kiyosaki
#94. The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough ... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.
Miguel Angel Ruiz
#95. Step out of the space you're in. Use fear to grow. We can change lives, starting with our own.
Soledad O'Brien
#96. We want people to change because they see better ways of meeting their needs at less cost, not because of fear that we're going to punish them, or 'guilt' them if they don't. This applies to ourselves as well.
Marshall B. Rosenberg
#97. As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change.
Eckhart Tolle
#98. Every decision we make in life, every new relationship, every job, every change, is a free fall. And it's not the dive that will kill us. It's the fear of taking the jump that hurts the most. The secret is to believe we are all capable of flight.
Katie Kacvinsky
#99. Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.
Jennifer Weiner
#100. A Warrior, A Winner has no fear. His only objective is to change the atmosphere, because he knows that then he controls the outcome.
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
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