125 Transition Quotes To Help You Survive Change

“A skilled transition team leader will set the general goals for a transition, and then confer on the other team leaders working with him the power to implement these goals.” – Richard V. Allen

“The transition was difficult. It’s hard to stop something that you’ve enjoyed and that has been very one bad chapter does not mean your story is over rewarding.” – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

“Many transition states have a well-defined preferred geometrical requirement.” – Derek Barton

“No matter where you are or who you are, may you never be a prisoner of your own body, mind and emotions. May you know the power of liberating yourself through yoga.” – Sadhguru

“Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!”

“Change the changeable, accept the unacceptable, and remove yourself from the unacceptable.” – Denis Waitley

“The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it move with it and join the dance.” – Alan Watts

“Change can be frightening, and the temptation is often to resist it. But change almost always provides opportunities – to learn new things, to rethink tired processes, and to improve the way we work.” – Klaus Schwab

“Although I’ve watched myself making the transition from being a girl to being a woman, I still feel 15 years old. My reflection disagrees.” – Jaime Winstone

“Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can’t ride you unless your back is bent.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.” – Henri Bergson

“It seems we’re always in transition and that it’s more about trends than it is about what’s meaningful.” – Marlee Matlin

“Change is an event but a transition is the process that you go through in response to the change.” –William Bridges

“I think death s just a transition to another state of consciousness.” – Val Kilmer

“As you transition from the past and future world of the mind to the awakened world of now, you will begin to experience yourself in an entirely new way. A way that is free of the pain and limitations of the past, and free of anxiety about the future. And you will begin to experience the abundance that is ever ...

... present in each moment.” – Leonard Jacobson

“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy not on fighting the old, but on building the new!” – Socrates

“The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.” – Albert Einstein

“The energy transition demands a clear vision of the steps that need to be taken and a stable, meaningful regulatory framework. It appears important to us to awaken public opinion to the fact that this transition will necessarily come at a cost and will, at least in the short term, involve a price increase.” – ...

... Christophe de Margerie

“Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she’s turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.” – Janet Evanovich

“Transitions themselves are not the issue, but how well you respond to their challenges!” – Jim George

“Look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else.” – Tom Stoppard

“When you transition, everyone kind of has to transition around you.” – Chastity Bono

“Step back in perspective, open your heart and welcome transition into a new phase of life.” – Linda Rawson

“Everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Andy Rooney

“Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.” – Marshall McLuhan

“All humans change. Development is our life. Transition, in labor, is the most painful time. Without change, there’s no growth.” – Mimi Kennedy

“Transition isn’t pretty, but stagnation is hideous.” – Nikki Rowe

“Autumn is the time to contemplate: One shall fall as time progresses. But that is transition before the fruit comes punctual to be harvested.”

“It’s only after you’ve stepped outside your comfort zone that you begin to change grow and transform.” – Roy T. Bennett

“A radical transition to loving yourself often requires physical separation. It requires physical separation because you must relearn love beyond the physical body.” – Victoria L. White

“It’s not a question of whether the transition from old to the new goals, practices and metrics is going to happen. It’s already under way.” – Steve Denning

“Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind.” – Fred Rogers

“We are about to enter a new era in which, each year, less net energy will be available to humankind, regardless of our efforts or choices. The only significant choice we will have will be how we adjust to this new regime. That choice – not whether, but how to reduce energy usage and make a transition to renewable ...

... alternatives – will have profound ethical and political ramifications.” – Richard Heinberg

“Beauty is the moment of transition, as if the form were just ready to flow into other forms.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Like the seasons, we don’t need to justify the change.”

“Stepping onto a brand-new path is difficult, but not more difficult than remaining in a situation, which is not nurturing to the whole woman.” – Maya Angelou

“Change comes more from managing the journey than from announcing the destination.” – William Bridges

“It is when we are in transition that we are most completely alive.” – William Bridges

“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.” – Victor Hugo

“All transitions are composed of an ending, a neutral zone and a new beginning.” – William Bridges

“Every chapter must end with a cliffhanger. On the spectrum of cliffhangers, the best are those involving physical danger. Next best are perceived threats – a mysterious shadow, a scream, the sight of a gun, the earth rumbling. Last on the list is the moderately acceptable dramatic realization, such as ‘he’s ...

... been lying to us all along’ or ‘she’s the real spy.” – Franklin W. Dixon

“The best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing you can do is the wrong thing; the worst thing you can do is nothing.” – Theodore Roosevelt

“We’re in this transition period of figuring out how to deal with all the new technology that is out there, but television still proves to be the granddaddy of them all.” – Jeff Zucker

“Transition is the natural process of disorientation and reorientation that marks the turning points in the path of growth… transitions are key times in the natural process of self-renewal.” – William Bridges

“Some people believe holding on and hanging in there are signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go and then do it.” – Ann Landers

“When you begin to awaken layers will be shade. You may experience rage, depression, anxiety, fear etc. Eide the wave! Allow these things to exit your system. Because your illusion self (ego) is being shed so your true self (spirit) can thrive! Embrace the transition.”

“Honor the space between no longer and not yet.” – Nancy Levin

“Any transition is easier if you believe in yourself and your talent.” – Priyanka Chopra

“The first person & the last person in your life are the most important, the in-between is just a transition.” – Arlin Sailesh Kapadia

“Transitioning is a radical act of self-love.”

“It isn’t the changes that do you in, it’s the transitions. Change is not the same as transition. Change is situational: the new site, the new boss, the new team roles, the new policy. Transition is the psychological process people go through to come to terms with the new situation. Change is external, ...

... transition is internal.” – William Bridges

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty.” – Maya Angelou

“We can’t become what we need to be by remaining what we are.”

“Sometimes, God brings times of transition to create transformation.” – Lynn Cowell

“Transformation is often more about unlearning than learning.” – Richard Rohr

“Light precedes every transition. Whether at the end of a tunnel, through a crack in the door or the flash of an idea, it is always there, heralding a new beginning.” – Teresa Tsalaky

“The changes we dread most may contain our salvation.” – Barbara Kingsolver

“History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.

“When I was going through my transition of being famous, I tried to ask God why was I here? What was my purpose? Surely, it wasn’t just to win three gold medals. There has to be more to this life than that.” – Wilma Rudolph

“If transition isn’t painful then you aren’t making progress.”

“Words do not create transition. Ideas do.” – Peter Jacobi

“College and the responsibilities that came with it helped me transition from teenager to adulthood.” – Lee Thompson Young

“The true transition takes place within.” – ATGW

“Transitional seasons are hard but going through them is the only way to get to beautiful destinations.”

“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

“Your breaking point is your breakthrough point.”

“Fifth grade is the beginning of the logic stage. We treat it as a transition year between elementary and middle school expectations.” – Jenny Harrington

“How can you know what you’re capable of if you don’t embrace the unknown?” – Esmeralda Santiago

“All I have to do is work on transition and technique.” – Usain Bolt

“It doesn’t matter where you are, you are nowhere compared to where you can go.” – Bob Proctor

“Your biggest fear is the transition from football to business. You feel inferior at the beginning. You don’t have the knowledge to compete. But once you start focusing and understanding, then you start relating to things.” – Emmitt Smith

“We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.”

“Transition periods are great times to look at what you have, determine what you no longer need, and let go of the clutter.” – Angela Ploete

“Change is situational. Transition, on the other hand, is psychological. It is not those events, but rather the inner reorientation or self-redefinition that you have to go through in order to incorporate any of those changes into your life. Without transition, a change is just a rearrangement of the furniture. ...

... Unless transition happens, the change won’t work, because it doesn’t take.” – William Bridges

“Interesting things happen along borders – transitions – not in the middle where everything is the same.” – Neal Stephenson

“We resist transition not because we can’t accept the change, but because we can’t accept letting go of that piece of ourselves that we have to give up when and because the situation has changed.” – William Bridges

“Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.” – Martha Beck

“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.” – Maria Robinson

“You are not struggling. You are transitioning.”

“A technique I developed quite naturally to help me make smooth transitions was to use a word or phrase from the next routine in the preceding one.” – Franklyn Ajaye

“We are always in transition. If you can just relax with that, you’ll have no problem.” – Chogyam Trungpa

“There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning.”

“Action is the key to transition.” – ATGW

“Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I’m happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone’s life, especially those in transition, going through changes.” – Dan Millman

“It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.” – Charles Darwin

“Try not to resist the changes that come your way. Instead let life live through you. And do not worry that your life is turning upside down. How do you know that the side you are used to is better than the one to come?” – Rumi

“You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of.” – Jim Rohn

“A transition period is a period between two transition periods.” – George Stigler

“Crisis or transition of any kind reminds us of what matters most.” – Russell Ballard

“There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in traveling in a stage coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one’s position and be bruised in a new place.” – Washington Irving

“Each phase of the transformation process has distinct milestones, is progressive, and is not revisited.” – Suzy Ross

“Change is not a threat. It’s an opportunity. Survival is not the goal. Transformative success is.” – Seth Godin

“It’s understandable that there would be transition problems, but we have to have a contingency plan in place to ensure people’s lives are not disrupted and damaged.” – Celia Hazert

“Sometimes good change is mixed with pangs of loss.”

“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 personal change and control your life; and the procedure, the process is its own reward.” – Amelia Earhart

“Transition is a positive process we can trust and an opportunity for rebirth.”

“Life is one big transition.” – Willie Stargell

“Incredible change happens in your life when you decide to take control of what you do have power over instead of craving control over what you don’t.” – Steve Maraboli

“Sometimes our lives have to be completely shaken up, changed, and rearranged to relocate us to the place we are meant to be.”

“When you are transitioning to a new season of life, the people and situations that no longer fir you will fall away.” – Mandy Hale

“The future is always all around us, waiting, in moments of transitions, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.” – J. Michael Strazynski

“A lot of people resist transition and therefore never allow themselves to enjoy who they are. Embrace the change, no matter what it is; once you do, you can learn about the new world you’re in and take advantage of it.” – Nikki Giovanni

“Times of transition are strenuous but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.” – Kristin Armstrong

“Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

“Life is a transition from one form to another. The life of this world is the material for a new form.” – Leo Tolstoy

“When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait. Life does not look back. A week is more than enough time for us to decide ...

... whether or not to accept our destiny.” – Paulo Coelho

“Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” – George Bernard Shaw

“She knew this transition was not about becoming someone better but about finally allowing herself to become who she’d always been.”

“Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” – Lao Tzu

“If you do what you’ve always done, you’ll get what you’ve always gotten.” – Tony Robbins

“When shifts and transitions in life shake you to the core, see that as a sign of greatness that’s about to occur.”

“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.” – Isaac Asimov

“The transition state of manners and language cannot be too often insisted upon: for this affected the process at both ends, giving the artist in fictitious life an uncertain model to copy and unstable materials to work in.” – George Saintsbury

“Your life is a story of transition. You are always leaving one chapter behind while moving on to the next.”

“Learn to embrace a change in your work and personal life and make the transition to a better you.”

“If you already understand your purpose, are you prepared to change your plans to match God’s will? If you aren’t, you can easily become bitter because things that used to work for you may no longer work. Be willing to transition at every stage of your life. If your heart is open and you have an open mind, the ...

... blessing will flow.” – T. D. Jakes

“Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.” – Eckhart Tolle

“The moment in between what you once were, and who you are now becoming, is where the dance of life really takes place.” – Barbara De Angelis

“Life must be a preparation for the transition to another dimension.” – Terence McKenna

“Transitions in life can offer opportunities for discovery.” – Robbie Shell

“She understood that the hardest times in life to go through were when you were transitioning from one version of yourself to another.” – Sarah Addison

“The only way that we can live, is if we grow. The only way that we can grow is if we change. The only way that we can change is if we learn. The only way we can learn is if we are exposed. And the only way that we can become exposed is if we throw ourselves out into the open. Do it. Throw yourself.” – C. JoyBell

“Change is inevitable in life. You can either resist it and potentially get run over by it, or you can choose to cooperate with it, adapt to it, and learn how to benefit from it. When you embrace change you will begin to see it as an opportunity for growth.” – Jack Canfield

“Those times of transitions are great opportunities to look for recurring patterns in your life and make adjustments to build on the good and reduce the bad.” – Dan Miller