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

Inspirational Quotations 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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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: Will, Life, Feel, Friend, Fear, Doing, Heart, Discover, Best

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

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: Life, Now, Feel, Fear

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

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

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

I’ve created the concept of a holi-hour, a shortened version of a holi-day. I allow myself at least an hour each day to relax totally.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Create, Fear

You can actually shift your thinking in such a way as to make a wrong decision or mistake an impossibility.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Think, Thinking, Fear, Act, Mistake, Decision

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: Security, Fear, Life, Mind, Choice, Abundance, Time, Feel, Live, Growth, Dance

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

You can drop an awful lot of excess baggage if you learn to play with life instead of fight it.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Learn, Fear, Life, Age, 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, Feel, Fear

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: Life, Fear, Doing, Body, Feel, New

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

Feel the fear and do it anyway.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear

I am talking about the power within the self. This means power over your perceptions of the world, power over how you react to situations in your life, power to do what is necessary for your own self-growth, power to create joy and satisfaction in your life, power to act, and power to love.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Joy, Act, Life, Fear, World, Power, Feel, Perception, Love, Growth, Create, Action

People who fear can’t genuinely give.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, People, Feel, Give

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

Don’t be deceived into thinking that by changing the external, the internal will be changed. It works the other way around. The path that needs changing is the one in your mind.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Change, Feel, Fear, Mind, Thinking, Work, Will, Think

The kind of power I’m talking about leaves you free, since you don’t expect the rest of the world to fill you up. It’s not the ability to get someone else to do what you want them to do. It’s the ability to get yourself to do what you want to do.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Sin, World, Rest, Power, Kind, Feel, Fear

Say YES to life. Participate. Move. Act. Write. Read. Sign up. Take a stand. Or do whatever it takes for you. Get involved in the process. As Rollo May wrote in Man’s Search for Himself: “Every organism has one and only one central need in life, to fulfill its own potentialities”.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Feel, Act, Life, Potential

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, Become, Act, Feel, Power, Pain, Fear

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

When we give from a place of love, rather than from a place of expectation, more usually comes back to us than we could have ever imagined.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Love, Give, Fear

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

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: Feel, Age, Fear, Believe, Give

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

The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take healthy, life-affirming risks.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Win, Health, Feel, Risk, Now, Life, Fear, Knowledge

By now you’ve gotten the picture. We can’t escape fear. We can only transform it into a companion that accompanies us in all our exciting adventures; it is not an anchor holding us transfixed to one spot.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Adventure, Feel, Now

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, Rent, Joy, Opportunity, Feel, Focus

Before you take any action in life, ask yourself: “Is this action moving me to a more powerful place?”
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Life, Act, Feel, Fear, Power, Action

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

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

Obviously, the real issue has nothing to do with fear itself, but, rather, how we hold the fear. For some, the fear is totally irrelevant. For others, it creates a state of paralysis. The former hold their fear from a position of power (choice, energy, and action), and the latter hold it from a position of pain (helplessness, depression, and paralysis).
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Pain, Action, Choice, Feel, Power, Energy, Depression, Fear, Act, Create

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: Give, Fear, Feel

As you start to see the possibilities in the impossible, you will begin to see that the world works “perfectly”. You can find reason and purpose in everything—if you open your mind to it.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Perfect, Reason, Possibilities, Fear, Work, Will, World, Purpose, Feel, Mind

No wonder you feel fearful—victims are powerless!
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Fear, Power

Taking responsibility means not blaming yourself… Anything that takes away your power or your pleasure makes you a victim. Don’t make yourself a victim of yourself!
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Power, Feel, Responsibility, Fear

You must become what you want to attract. Be the kind of person you would want to surround yourself with.
—Susan Jeffers
Topics: Become, Feel, Act, Kind, Fear

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

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