Words of Motivation: Help to Overcome the Fear of Chasing your
Dreams
For some people, their goals aren’t achieved simply because they have something they would love to do, but they
just don’t have the courage, the faith in themselves, or perhaps the know-how to take the first step in the
direction of achieving their dreams. For others, they get started but run out of enthusiasm and so their dreams are
put on hold because they just don’t have the energy to keep going. This is where words of motivation from other
people who have achieved great things come in useful.
There are many quotes that now famous people have made and which are cited on posters, calendars and websites.
These words of motivation can be instrumental in providing the assurance that it’s not always necessary to be the
smartest, richest person in the world in order to achieve a dream, but rather it’s the person who takes an
opportunity, or faces his fear of failure, who succeeds.
A man who achieved far greater things than he could have even dreamed possible, Walt Disney, offered the following
words of motivation to those who are standing on the threshold of dream frightened to take the first step in the
direction of a secret cherished goal: “All our dreams can come true - if we have the courage to pursue them.”
Finding that courage isn’t always easy. Most people have a fear of failure, and if you have a dream of something
that’s close to your heart, often it’s easier not to even try and tempt failure and just keep the dream alive of
what you could do “one day” if you wanted. Former first lady Eleanor Roosevelt had some words of motivation to
people who fall into this sector, “you must do the thing you think you cannot do.” Her husband, former president
Franklin D Roosevelt, put it in a simpler way by saying “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself”. In a
motivational sense, FDR’s quotation could be interpreted as saying that we must fear fear because fear holds us
back from achieving all that we could, and a motivational interpretation of his wife’s would be that we mustn’t not
do something just because we think we shouldn’t.
Words of motivation can be used as a boost to your enthusiasm when you’re lagging in pursuit of a dream, or they
can be the catalyst that gives you that extra boost of confidence that starts you on the road towards achieving
your goals. This is especially true of those who put things off because they have so much to do now, and they say
that they’ll follow their dreams later – when their children are grown, when their finances are more settled, when
they retire, and suddenly they find they are out of time and are left with the regret of a dream unfilled. As
Martin Luther said “How soon ‘not now’ becomes never.” Words of motivation such as those are simple, and yet
thought provoking – they strike a chord with both the head and heart as the head recognizes the truth and the heart
yearns to accomplish it’s dream – and so the motivation to at least try is created.
When you are feeling that you can’t accomplish your dreams, find quotations from people who have tried to follow
their dreams and let their words of motivation help to reassure you that there is no failure in trying, there is
only failure in never attempting to capture a dream. As hockey player Wayne Gretzky said “100% of the shots you
don’t take don’t go in.” In other words, if you try to follow your dream and you might succeed, but don’t try and
you are guaranteed to fail!
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