Many people fear change. Because change relies on the unknown. When something changes, it is leaving the present, remembering the past, and reaching out towards an elusive, unpromised future. But once you learn to overcome the fear of change, you will be able to grow and uncover endless opportunities. Here are some quotes to help you embrace change.
- “It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” – Charles Darwin
- “In a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.” – Warren Buffett
- “Change is the law of life and those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.” – John F. Kennedy
- “Change before you have to.” – Jack Welch
- “By changing nothing, nothing changes.” – Tony Robbins
- “There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.” – Niccolo Machiavelli
- “Adaptability is about the powerful difference between adapting to cope and adapting to win.” – Max McKeown
- “I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it.” – Pablo Picasso
- “A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it.” – Chinese Proverb
- “People will try to tell you that all the great opportunities have been snapped up. In reality, the world changes every second, blowing new opportunities in all directions, including yours.” – Ken Hakuta
- “The art of life is a constant readjustment to our surroundings.” – Kakuzo Okakaura
- “All great changes are preceded by chaos.” – Deepak Chopra
- “Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.” – Leo Tolstoy
- “You were born with the power to change others. You change people by the way you treat them. That is what changes the human heart.” – Patricia Polacco
- “Everything you want is on the other side of fear.” – Jack Canfield
- “Progress always involves risks. You can’t steal second base and keep your foot on first.” – Frederick Wilcox
- “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
- “Without remaining open to change, we cannot remain open to life.” – Ram Dass
- “The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you. Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved.” – William Jennings Bryan
- “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
- “Never let the odds keep you from doing what you know in your heart you were meant to do.” – H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
- Your hope lies in accepting your life as it now lies before you, forever changed. If you can do that, the peace you seek will follow.” – Jennifer Niven
- “Giving up is the only sure way to fail.” – Gena Showalter
- “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” – Amelia Earhart
- “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
- “You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
- “We can’t be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don’t have something better.” – C. JoyBell C.
- “What you have to do and the way you have to do it is incredibly simple. Whether you are willing to do it is another matter.” – Peter Drucker
- “The future rewards those who press on. I don’t have time to feel sorry for myself. I don’t have time to complain. I’m going to press on.” – Barack Obama
- “There is nothing permanent except change.” – Heraclitus
