Change Fear Quotes

Lighten grief with hopes of a brighter morrow; Temper joy, in fear of a change of fortune.

I am far too much in doubt about the present, far too perturbed .about the future, to be otherwise than profoundly reverential about the past.

Why this reluctance to make the change? We fear the process of reeducation.

Much as we may wish to make a new beginning, some part of us resists doing so as though we were making the first step toward disaster.

I realized how truly hard it was, really, to see someone you love change right before your eyes. Not only is it scary, it throws your balance off as well.

My leadership style is to produce a fear of not changing..

New ideas seem like frightening ghosts to people at the beginning; they run away from them for a long time.

It's kind of depressing when you hear the anti-science rhetoric in America, but I think that people are just afraid of change, and I think they're afraid of disruption, and I think they're afraid of the feeling that the rug is being pulled from underneath their feet. People are used to things changing maybe over many generations, but they're not used to seeing things change within their own lifetime. The problem is people are going to college and graduating, and realizing that their major is obsolete.

I know that people who have been closely involved with my work for many years are terrified of having to answer to someone else, someone who is not me, and that it won't be me to help them in their problems. This is my real problem.