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Quotes About Change

In order to get to a healthier and more productive place, we need to give up our fear of conflict, turmoil and resistance.
~ John M. Gottman
It appears that my worst fears have been realised: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed.
~ Derrick Bell
The world doesn't change in front of your eyes, it changes behind your back.
~ Terry Hayes, I Am Pilgrim
Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie.
~ Herbie Hancock
Slowness to change usually means fear of the new.
~ Phil Crosby
My biggest fear? My biggest fear would be turning into an inanimate object.
~ Darren Criss
Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.
~ John C. Maxwell
Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.
~ George Clinton
I'll repeat something you might consider tattooing on your forehead: What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.
~ Tim Ferriss
And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.
~ James Frey
The most ominous of fallacies - the belief that things can be kept static by inaction
~ Freya Stark
l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.
~ Robert Moses
The fear is for what is still to be lost.
~ Joan Didion
The industrial age brought compliance and compliance brought fear and fear brought us mediocrity.
~ Seth Godin
This pain to remain the same outweigh the pain to change... When you get tired enough is when you begin to want to sacrifice everything inside of you—the fear just leaves
~ Erykah Badu
We do not have a fear of the unknown. What we fear is giving up the known.
~ Anthony de Mello
Fear of the future and longing for the past are major factors which impede appropriate action.
~ Brenda Shoshanna
Habit, laziness, and fear conspire to keep us comfortably within the familiar.
~ Jane Hirshfield
The difficulty lies, not in the new ideas, but in escaping the old ones, which ramify, for those brought up as most of us have been, into every corner of our minds.
~ John Maynard Keynes
The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line of fear, because that is ultimately our line of growth.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
In every generation, the world is changed by a few people, who stand for something, do not fear unpopularity and dare to make a difference.
~ Nicky Gumbel
The more comfort becomes your priority, the more contracted you become with fear.
~ T. Harv Eker
The very thing you fear could be the best thing to ever happen to you
~ Michael Dell
The key to change is letting go of the fear.
~ Pittacus Lore