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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Women have been conditioned to believe that to be powerful is unfeminine and unattractive. It is my experience that nothing could be further from the truth.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Fear, Feel, Power, Experience, Act, Believe, Truth

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: Adventure, Now, Fear, Feel

It is reported that more than 90% of what we worry about never happens. That means that our negative worries have less than a 10% chance of being correct. If this is so, isn’t being positive more realistic than being negative? Think about your own life. I’ll wager that most of what you worry about never happens. So are you being realistic when you worry all the time? No!
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, Worry, Life, Think, Time, Fear, Age

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, Act, Action, Pain

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: Power, Act, Create, Life, World, Action, Fear, Love, Perception, Joy, Growth, Feel

From this moment on, every time you feel afraid, remind yourself that it is simply because you are not feeling good enough about yourself.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Good, Fear, Mind, Time, Cause, Feel

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: Depression, Power, Fear, Experience, Feel, Blame, Giving, Life, Pain

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

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

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: Will, Perfect, Work, Mind, Possibilities, World, Purpose, Fear, Feel, Reason

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

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

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

Start thinking about yourself as a lifetime student at a large university. Your curriculum is your total relationship with the world you live in, from the moment you’re born to the moment you die.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Feel, World, Fear, Time, Think, Live, Thinking, Life

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

Commitment doesn’t mean that it has to last forever, but while you are there, commit yourself 100%. By doing this, the quality of your life improves 100%.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Commitment, Fear, Doing, Feel, Life

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

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

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

You may never relate the experiences of others, especially those of celebrities, to your life. You may think they are lucky because they aren’t afraid to put themselves out there. Not so! They had to push through a tremendous amount of fear to get where they are today… and they are still pushing.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Cause, Feel, Fear, Life, Luck, Think, Experience

You can drop an awful lot of excess baggage if you learn to play with life instead of fight it.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Life, Fear, Learn, Age, 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: Growth, Give, Better, Time, Love, Fear, Feel, Persona, Work

As you begin to understand the immense power and love you hold inside, you will find an unending surge of joy, light and love that will nourish and support you all the days of your life.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Possibilities

We have been taught to believe that negative equals realistic and positive equals unrealistic.
Susan Jeffers

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

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: Feel, Act, Power, Create, Action, Depression, Energy, Fear, Pain, Choice

If you listen to the Chatterbox, your experience of life is fear-producing, and you stop yourself from expanding. If you listen to the Higher Self, your experience of life is joyful and abundant and devoid of fear. You, like everyone else, are an expert at listening to your Chatterbox. Your task is now to become an expert at listening to your Higher Self. Then true choice will be possible.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Now, Become, Joy, Will, Experience, Feel, Life, Choice, Fear

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, Security, Feel, Discover

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: Feel, Trust, Fear

You don’t become powerful without concentrating your power.
Susan Jeffers
Topics: Power, Fear, Become, Feel

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