Favorite Inspirational Quotes

You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face…  You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Fear can sometimes be a good thing.  It can help keep us out of danger and from getting hurt.  I fear bears.  No way I’m playing tag with one.  So in that way fear protects me.

It’s when fear gets in the way of us taking a risk that moves us beyond our comfort zone.  That is when we need to pay attention to this quote.  No matter how much we fear doing something different, taking a chance and moving beyond our comfort zone, it’s the only way we can break free and even being to have a chance to be all we are capable of being.

And, yes, we will fail.  Perhaps we will fail way more than we will ever succeed. Go back to the Michael Jordan quote on succeeding.  However, the hope is that each time we take on fear and face it down, we become more of what we have the potential to be.

It’s so easy to remain comfortable.  I’m at a stage in my life where that is so very much what I want to be; be comfortable.  But if I don’t make even small step out of my fear, I will just become complacent.  I might as well give up on life now if I do that.

So I must fight fear and I must fight inertia.  I need to do the things I think I cannot do.

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