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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