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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Whether it feels like it or not, you already have more power than you could ever have imagined. We all have.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Power, Fear

Why be miserable when you can be happy?
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Happy, Fear, Feel

When we let someone be who they are without trying to change them, that is giving away love. When we trust that someone can handle his or her own life, and act accordingly, that is giving away love.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Life, Act, Trust, Change, Fear, Love, Yin, Giving, Feel, Try

All you have to do to find a way out of your self-imposed prison is to retrain your thinking.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Think, Feel, Thinking, Fear

If we do not consciously and consistently focus on the spiritual part of ourselves, we will never experience the kind of joy, satisfaction, safety, and connectedness we are all seeking.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Joy, Feel, Fear, Will, Spirit, Act, Action, Focus, Spiritual, Experience, Kind

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

When you stay centered there is nothing to fear.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Fear

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

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

I know it is hard to accept, but an upset in your life is beneficial, in that it tells you that you are off course in some way and you need to find your way back to your particular path of clarity once again.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Now, Life, Fear, Feel

When a difficult situation comes into your life, it is possible to tune in to your mind and say, “Okay, choose”. Are you going to make yourself miserable or content? Are you going to visualize scarcity or abundance? Are you going to put yourself down for getting angry with your husband or are you simply going to notice what insecurity you were feeling at the time and discuss it with him? The choice is definitely yours. Pick the one that contributes most to your aliveness and growth.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Choice, Dance, Life, Security, Time, Fear, Abundance, Live, Mind, Growth

In all my life I have never heard a mother call out to her child as she goes off to school, “Take a lot of risks today, darling”. She is more likely to convey to her child, “Be careful, darling”. This “Be careful” carries with it a double message: “The world is really dangerous out there” … and … “you won’t be able to handle it”.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Life, Age, Feel, Fear, Anger, Risk, World

Are you a “victim,” or are you taking responsibility for your life?
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Responsibility, Life, Fear, Feel

Remember that much of the trick of moving from pain to power is taking action. ACTION IS VERY POWERFUL!
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Power, Feel, Pain, Act, Action

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

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: Give, Feel, Persona, Love, Growth, Time, Better, Work, Fear

People who refuse to take risks live with a feeling of dread that is far more severe than what they would feel if they took the risks necessary to make them less helpless—only they don’t know it!
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Now, Feel, Live, People, Risk

Awareness is half the battle.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Fear, War, Awareness

In a sense, your need to please shows you what you have to work on—and that is: letting go emotionally of the role of child and stepping into the role of adult.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Work, 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: New, Feel, Master, Fear, Decide, Good, Will

No one is more unloving than a person who can’t own his or her own love.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Love, Fear, Feel

If everybody feels fear when approaching something totally new in life, yet so many are out there “doing it” despite the fear, then we must conclude that fear is not the problem.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Doing, Life, Body, Fear, Feel, New

So take only those risks each day that build your sense of self-worth. These are the risks that enhance your ability to deal with your fears. EXPAND! EXPAND! EXPAND!
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Risk, Feel

One of the most valuable lessons in learning to diminish fear is embodied in the phrase SAY YES TO YOUR UNIVERSE.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Universe, Feel, Learn, Learning, Fear

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

The secret in handling fear is to move yourself from a position of pain to a position of power. The fact that you have the fear becomes irrelevant.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Secret, Feel, Act, Power, Become, Pain, Fear

When you become involved in a bigger energy motivated by the Group Higher Self, you are infused with power and purpose.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Energy, Feel, Become, Power, Purpose

No one is immune to pain, and it shouldn’t be denied when it exists. The key is to know that you can lead a productive and meaningful life no matter what the external circumstances are. What positive thinking does is offer a power boost to help you handle whatever life throws at you. Your “bad breaks” do not dominate your life; your indomitable strength does. And when you feel that indomitable strength, you really can handle any of your fears from a position of power—the kind of power that really can make good things happen.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Strength, Fear, Life, Circumstance, Pain, Good, Feel, Thinking, Think, Power, Kind, Now

It is amazingly empowering to have the support of a strong, motivated, and inspirational group of people.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: People, Fear, Feel, Inspiration, Power, Inspirational, Support

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: Power, Depression, Life, Fear, Feelings, Experience, Work, Feel, Persona

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