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Fear of change perplexes monarchs.
Sep 10, 2025
There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.
l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.
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.
Fear of change was a weakness
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.
And I speak of spiritual suffering! Of people seeing their talent, their work, their lives wasted. Of good minds submitting to stupid ones. Of strength and courage strangled by envy, greed for power, fear of change. Change is freedom, change is life
In a country where employment opportunities are not growing fast enough, the fear of change tends to be very acute.
In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs.
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.
Any change in form produces a fear of change, and that has accelerated. Marketing is the death of invention, because marketing deals with the familiar.
We live in a screen age, and to say to a kid, ‘I’d love for you to look at a book but I hate it when you look at the screen’ is just bizarre. It reflects our own prejudices and comfort zone. It’s nothing but fear of change, of being left out.
The best thing you can do is follow your dreams
The worst thing you can do is nothing.
If you have a 2 or 3 year old who is not talking, you must start an early intervention program. The worst thing you can do with an autistic 3 year old is to do nothing.
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.
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.
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.
The more things change, the more they stay different.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
You're already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
Change your thoughts and you change your world.
A society's apprehensiveness about divorce is an expression of its fear of change and of its resulting desire that personality remain unvarying.
As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
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.
Do one thing every day that scares you.
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.
Be the change you want to see in your networks
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
Be the change you want to see.
The key to change is to let go of fear.
Sometimes good things fall apart so better things could fall together.
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.
I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can't accept not trying.
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Bravery is not the absence of fear but the forging ahead despite being afraid
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that
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.
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.
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