Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Susan Jeffers (American Self-Help Author)

Susan Jeffers (1938–2012,) née Gildenberg, was an American psychologist. The author of Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway and other popular self-help literature, she was also a sought-after public speaker.

Born to a Jewish family in Hazleton, Pennsylvania, Jeffers got a bachelor’s degree from Hunter College in New York City, and a master’s and a doctorate in psychology from Columbia University.

Jeffers is well known for her first self-help book, Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway (1987; revised 2006.) Initially rejected by several publishers, it sold some 15 million copies in 100 countries and was translated into more than 35 languages. Jeffers also established a thriving training and consulting business, recruiting hundreds of accredited trainers all over the world.

Jeffers wrote 17 other self-help books, including End the Struggle and Dance with Life (1996,) I’m Okay, You’re a Brat! (2001,) and Embracing Uncertainty (2003.)

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I have learned that there is always more to learn. And experience is our greatest teacher.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Teach, Fear, Learn, Experience, Great

Determine what you want on your life and act on it.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Life, Act, Feel

Action is the key to your success.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Feel, Act, Action, Success

As I correct what needs to be handled in my life, all my anger toward others dissipates.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, War, Life, Anger, Feel

As far as I know, everyone feels fear as he or she moves forward through life. It is absolutely possible that there are some evolved souls in this world who never experience fear, but I have not met them.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Life, Feel, Fear, Soul, Experience, Now, World, War

When you give your subsconscious the message “I can’t,” your subconscious really believes you and registers on its computer: WEAK… WEAK… WEAK…
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Give, Feel, Believe, Age, Fear

It is fairly predictable, however, that when you’ve finally mastered something and gotten rid of the fear, you will feel so good that you will decide that there is something else out there you want to accomplish, and guess what! The fear begins again as you prepare to meet a new challenge.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Master, New, Will, Decide, Fear, Good

When you operate from the Higher Self, you feel centered and abundant—in fact, overflowing. When you experience this abundance, your fears automatically disappear.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Experience, Win, Dance, Abundance, Act, Fear

The truth is:If you knew you could handle anything that came your way, what would you have to fear?The answer is: NOTHING!
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Power

I know I’ll handle it. I have nothing to worry about.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Now, Worry, Fear, Feel

What we resist persists.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Feel

All you have to do to diminish fear is to develop more trust in your ability to handle whatever comes your way!
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Trust, Fear, Feel

Fear of particular situations dissolved when I finally confronted them. The “doing it” comes before the fear goes away.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Doing, Feel, Fear

So commit! Commit yourself to pushing through the fear and becoming more than you are at the present moment. The you that could be is absolutely colossal.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Feel

Most of us do not “sculpt” our lives. We accept what comes our way…then we gripe about it.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Live, Fear, Feel

If you’ve truly committed yourself to something, given it all you’ve got, and then concluded that it is not for you—move on to something else.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Feel, Give

They have discovered that security is not having things; it’s handling things. Thus, when you can answer all your “what if”s with “I can handle it,” you can approach all things with a no-lose guarantee, and the fear disappears.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Feel, Discover, Security

So, instead of wanting to throttle your loved ones when they give you a hard time, it is better to look at them as mirrors of what you still need to work on in terms of our personal growth.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Persona, Fear, Growth, Better, Feel, Love, Give, Work, Time

As another ancient sage once said, “The pathway is smooth. Why do you throw rocks before you?”
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Feel, Age

THE TRUTH IS THAT YOU REALLY ARE IN CONTROL—IN TOTAL CONTROL.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Truth, Fear, Feel, Control

Shoulds bring on guilt and upset—totally draining emotions. Your power is taken every time you utter the words “I should”.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Time, Fear, Feel, Power

For some reason, when you become a support to others, you become bigger than you are.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Support, Reason, Feel, Become

The most important thing is for you to be your own best friend. Whatever you are doing—don’t put yourself down. Slowly begin to discover which, for you, is the path of the heart. Which path in life will make you grow? That is the path to take.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Life, Discover, Doing, Friend, Feel, Fear, Best, Will, Heart

You are innately designed to use your personal power. When you don’t, you experience a sense of helplessness, paralysis, and depression—which is your clue that something is not working as it could. You, like all of us, deserve everything that is wonderful and exciting in life. And those feelings emerge only when you get in touch with your powerful self.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Life, Work, Power, Experience, Feelings, Depression, Fear, Persona, Feel

At the bottom of every one of your fears is simply the fear that you can’t handle whatever life may bring you.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear

When you see yourself connected to something bigger than yourself, you no longer feel you must do it all alone. Your sense of power becomes highly magnified, and your fears are greatly diminished.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Power, Feel, Great, Fear, Become

We can’t control the world, but we can control our reactions to it.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Action, Feel, World, Act, Control

The point to remember is that when you blame any outside force for any of your experience of life, you are literally giving away all your power and thus creating pain, paralysis and depression.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Giving, Experience, Life, Fear, Depression, Feel, Blame, Power, Pain

If you are focused on “the way it’s supposed to be,” you might miss the opportunity to enjoy the way it is or to have it be wonderful in a totally different way from what you imagined.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Joy, Focus, Feel, Opportunity, Rent

She knows the answer to her question “what if?” The answer is: “I’ll handle it!”
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Now, Fear, Feel

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