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We all have our own comfort zones – a place where we feel safe, we feel no stress, and we are at ease. However, sometimes, the best experiences we can have in our lives are when we completely step outside our comfort zone.

So, here are 52 motivational quotes that will inspire you to stretch your boundaries and motivate you to move outside your comfort zone.

52 Powerful Quotes on Moving Outside Your Comfort Zone

1. “Don’t confuse comfort with happiness.” – Dean Karnazes

2. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

3. “Greatness begins beyond your comfort zone.” – Robin Sharma

4. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

5. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

6. “It’s when you begin to think about going to your dream that your dream is always outside of your comfort zone. It’s always beyond what you’ve ever done.” – Bruce Wilkinson

7. “As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.” – Robin Sharma

8. “Anything you to do to stretch yourself out of your comfort zone will ultimately enable you to take larger risks and grow.” – Leslie Evans

9. “Life begin at the end of your Comfort Zone. So if you’re feeling uncomfortable right now, know that the change taking place in your life is a beginning, not an ending.” – Neale Donald Walsch

10. “If you remain in your comfort zone you will not go any further.” – Catherine Pulsifer

11. “Most everything that you want is just outside your comfort zone.” – Jack Canfield

12. “Move out of your comfort zone. You can only grow if you are willing to feel awkward and uncomfortable when you try something new.” – Brian Tracy

13. “If your goal is to be comfortable, chances are you’ll never get rich. But if your goal is to be rich, chances are you’ll end up mighty comfortable.” – T. Harv Eker

14. “Very successful people don’t seek comfort, they seek success and are willing to do what is most uncomfortable. But most of the world is seeking comfort and familiarity which are traps that cause you to settle for the mediocre. If you want to get to the next level of your business you’ve got to be comfortable with being uncomfortable.” – Grant Cardone

15. “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” – Robin Sharma

16. “Your life does not get better by chance. It gets better by change.” – Jim Rohn

17. “Don’t be afraid to give up the good and go for the great.” – Steve Prefontaine

18. “Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.” – Ray Lewis

19. “The comfort zone is a psychological state in which one feels familiar, safe, at ease, and secure. You never change your life until you step out of your comfort zone; change begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Roy T. Bennett

20. “Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.” – Dale Carnegie

21. “We cannot become what we want to be by remaining what we are.” – Max DePree

22. “Do one thing every day that scares you.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

23. “A dream is your creative vision for your life in the future. You must break out of your current comfort zone and become comfortable with the unfamiliar and the unknown.” – Denis Waitley

24. “All growth starts at the end of your comfort zone.” – Tony Robbins

25. “The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.” – Dan Stevens

26. “You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. If you stay in your comfort zone! You would never do the things that you need to do.” – Lights Poxlietner

27. “Stepping outside your comfort zone is supposed to feel uncomfortable because we’re in new and unfamiliar territory. Being uncomfortable is a sign of success, NOT of failure! So if we are uncomfortably outside our comfort zones, then than means we are growing!!! And THAT is cause for celebration!” – Roz Savage

28. “Get comfortable with being uncomfortable!” – Jillian Michaels

29. “If you want to be excellent at something, you must move away from your comfort zone, overcome doubt, setbacks and failure. Never give up. Keep plugging away and being persistent. One day, success will be yours.” – Mark F. LaMoure

30. “Comfort zone has the most comfortable bed in life where dreams become alive in your mind but never become a reality because you never get up from bed to make it happen.” – Oscar Bimpong

31. “The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.” – Simon Barnes

32. “Comfort is the enemy of achievement.” – Farrah Gray

33. “If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.” – Thomas Jefferson

34. “Leaving your comfort zone is hard. Staying broke is hard. Pick your hard.” – Grant Cardone

35. “The hardest thing to do is leaving your comfort zone. But you have to let go of the life you’re familiar with and take the risk to live the life you dream about.” – T. Arigo

36. “The best piece of advice someone has ever given me was ‘do it scared.’ And no matter if you’re scared, just go ahead and do it anyway because you might as well do it scared, so it will get done and you will feel so much better if you step out of your comfort zone.” – Sherri Shepherd

37. “If you put yourself in a position where you have to stretch outside your comfort zone, then you are forced to expand your consciousness.” – Les Brown

38. “Pushing yourself through your comfort zone can pay you handsomely.” – Douglas McGehee

39. “Be willing to step outside your comfort zone once in a while; take the risks in life that seem worth taking. The ride might not be as predictable if you’d just planted your feet and stayed put, but it will be a heck of a lot more interesting.” – Edward Whitacre, Jr.

40. “If you always do what is easy and choose the path of least resistance, you never step outside your comfort zone. Great things don’t come from comfort zones.” – Roy Bennett

41. “Good is the enemy of great. And that is one of the key reasons why we have so little that becomes great. We don’t have great schools, principally because we have good schools. We don’t have great government, principally because we have good government. Few people attain great lives, in large part because it is just so easy to settle for a good life.” – James C. Collins

42. “Don’t be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That’s where the joy and the adventure lie.”  – Herbie Hancock

43. “Comfort zones are overrated. They make you lazy.” – Melina Marchetta

44. “My experience is that you cannot have everything you want but you can have anything you really want, you just need to decide what it is and then plan your exit from the comfort zone.” – Jonathan Farrington

45. “Do something uncomfortable today. By stepping out of your box, you don’t have to settle for what you are, you get to create who you want to become.” – Howard Walstein

46. “The biggest rewards in life are found outside your comfort zone. Live with it. Fear and risk are prerequisites if you want to enjoy a life of success and adventure.” – Jack Canfield

47. “Anything you to do to stretch yourself out of your comfort zone will ultimately enable you to take larger risks and grow.” – Leslie Evans

48. “When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there’s nothing more satisfying.” – Kristen Wiig

49. “Fear can only be mastered outside of your comfort zone.” – Matshona Dhliwayo

50. “Change is hardest at the beginning, messiest in the middle and best at the end.” – Robin Sharma

51. “Don’t worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don’t even try.” – Jack Canfield

52. “A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing ever grows there.” – John Assaraf

What’s your favorite quote? Please share in the comment section below.

Jim Rohn was an entrepreneur, author, and a highly influential motivational speaker. He has impacted millions of people with his seminars, motivational books and life-changing personal development materials.

Jim Rohn mentored Life coach Tony Robbins and sales expert Brian Tracy. Others who credit Jim Rohn for his influence on their careers include authors Jack Canfield, Mark Victor Hansen and T. Harv Eker.

Here are 21 inspiring Jim Rohn quotes on reading books.

21 Jim Rohn Quotes on Reading Books

1. “Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.” – Jim Rohn

2. “Successful people have libraries. The rest have big screen TVs.” – Jim Rohn

3. “Miss a meal if you have to, but don’t miss a book.” – Jim Rohn

4. “Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.” – Jim Rohn

5. “The difference between where you are today and where you’ll be five years from now will be found in the quality of books you’ve read.” – Jim Rohn

6. “Some people claim that it is okay to read trashy novels because sometimes you can find something valuable in them. You can also find a crust of bread in a garbage can, if you search long enough, but there is a better way.” – Jim Rohn

7. “Everything you need for better future and success has already been written. And guess what? All you have to do is go to the library.” – Jim Rohn

8. “Don’t just read the easy stuff. You may be entertained by it, but you will never grow from it.” – Jim Rohn

9. “It isn’t what the book costs. It’s what it will cost you if you don’t read it.” – Jim Rohn

10. “The book you don’t read can’t help.” – Jim Rohn

11. “Books are what you step on to take you to a higher shelf. The higher your stack of books, the higher the shelf you can reach. Want to reach higher? Stack some more books under your feet! Reading is what brings us to new knowledge. It opens new doors. It helps us understand mysteries. It lets us hear from successful people. Reading is what takes us down the road in our journey. Everything you need for a better future and success has already been written.” – Jim Rohn

12. “The only thing worse than not reading a book in the last ninety days is not reading a book in the last ninety days and thinking that it doesn’t matter.” – Jim Rohn

13. “I am a buyer of blank books. Kids find it interesting that I would buy a blank book. They say, “Twenty-Six dollars for a blank book! Why would you pay that?” The reason I pay twenty-six dollars is to challenge myself to find something worth twenty-six dollars to put in there. All my journals are private, but if you ever got hold of one of them, you wouldn’t have to look very far to discover it is worth more than twenty-six dollars.” – Jim Rohn

14. “The things that change your life are: the people you meet, the classes you take, and the books you read.” – Jim Rohn

15. “Don’t read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.” – Jim Rohn

16. “Reading is essential for those who seek to rise above the ordinary.” – Jim Rohn

17. “Most homes valued at over $250,000 have a library. That should tell us something.” – Jim Rohn

18. “All of the insights that we might ever need have already been captured by others in books. The important question is this: In the last ninety days, with this treasure of information that could change our lives, our fortunes, our relationships, our health, our children and our careers for the better, how many books have we read?” – Jim Rohn

19. “If you want to live a top shelf life then you need to stand on the books you have read. Never stop learning, never stop growing.” – Jim Rohn

20. “The millionaire says to a thousand people, ‘I read this book and it started me on the road to wealth.’ Guess how many go out and get the book? Very few. Isn’t that incredible? Why wouldn’t everyone get the book?!” – Jim Rohn

21. “Any day we wish we can discipline ourselves to change it all. Any day we wish; we can open the book that will open our mind to new knowledge. Any day we wish; we can start a new activity. Any day we wish; we can start the process of life change. We can do it immediately, or next week, or next month, or next year.” – Jim Rohn

What are your favorite Jim Rohn quotes? Please share in the comment section below.

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Paulo Coelho’s masterpiece “The Alchemist” is an international bestseller which has sold more than 65 million copies worldwide. Originally written in Portuguese, it has been translated into 80 different languages making it the most translated book by any living author.

It follows the mystical story of a shepherd boy named Santiago who travels to Egypt after having a recurring dream of finding a treasure there. Santiago’s journey teaches us about the essential wisdom of listening to our hearts, of recognizing opportunity, and most importantly, to follow our dreams.

Below are top 10 The Alchemist quotes that will inspire you to follow your dreams.

Top 10 The Alchemist Quotes by Paulo Coelho

1. “And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.” – Paulo Coelho

2. “When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better, too.” – Paulo Coelho

3. “Every blessing ignored becomes a curse.” – Paulo Coelho

4. “It’s the possibility of having a dream come true that makes life interesting.” – Paulo Coelho

5. “One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” – Paulo Coelho

6. “Remember that wherever your heart is, there you will find your treasure.” – Paulo Coelho

7. “The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.” – Paulo Coelho

8. “There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.” – Paulo Coelho

9. “And, when you can’t go back, you have to worry only about the best way of moving forward.” – Paulo Coelho

10. “You will never be able to escape from your heart. So it’s better to listen to what it has to say.” – Paulo Coelho

What are your favorite “The Alchemist” quotes? Please share in the comment section below.