Gloria Steinem Quotes

I like new challenges and new experiences.

If a part terrifies me, that is definitely a reason to do it.

I want to try new things and put myself out there and take some risks.

Do one thing every day that scares you.

Always do what you are afraid to do.

Change doesn't come from staying in your safe space.

We have to start encouraging people to step out of their comfort zones and start doing new things. Anything anybody does new, there are a bunch of naysayers.

Without fear you can't explore or push yourself beyond what you've done.

If you want something you've never had before, you gotta be willing to do something you've never done before.

With each book, I'm trying to do something that terrifies me.

To be held back by fear is to miss out on challenging yourself in different ways.

If you don't get adventurous, you stay in the same spot; you don't really grow.

You do have to challenge yourself. I think scared is a good thing.

A little bit of fear means you are doing something worth doing--you are stretching...You are going outside your immediate grasp.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

What have you always wanted to do but been afraid to attempt? Whatever it is, it may be your greatest opportunity in life.

Growth demands a temporary surrender of security. It may mean a giving up of familiar but limiting patterns, safe but unrewarding work, values no longer believed in, relationships that have lost their meaning. As Dostoevsky put it, "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most." The real fear should be of the opposite course.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

I feel like in order to challenge yourself you have to get out of and do things that feel wrong at first and find new things. It's important to look for those things.

... to keep moving up ... , you have to abandon the security of that ledge and reach for another hold. Letting go of that sense of security.. is the challenge. ... think of yourself as climbing a ladder. To move to the next rung, you must give up your grip and reach for the next one.

One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.

If your life is ever going to get better, you'll have to take risks. There is simply no way you can grow without taking chances.

If you don't go towards the thing you fear, you won't be able to say you lived.

Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.

I like to do something I fear.