Wanna know where people spend most of their lives?
It’s not at their job. It’s not at their house. It’s not in their living room or in their bed.
It’s in their comfort zone. Most people never go after their dreams and take risks because they’re afraid.
Afraid of change. Afraid of growth. Afraid of situations where they will be forced to face up to their inadequacies and take control of their life.
There’s no benefit to living life this way. It may feel good in the short-term to run from fear, but in the long-term it leads to a life filled with regret.
Discomfort is unavoidable if you want to live a meaningful life. If you find yourself stagnant, knowing that you’re not everything you could be, then getting out of your comfort zone is a great place to start reinventing who you are.
This article will contain a huge list of 112 comfort zone quotes that will motivate you to break free from fear and spring into action. My hope is that they serve as motivation for you to start stretching your boundaries and realizing your full potential.
Comfort Zone Quotes For Inspiration
The reason it’s so hard to get out of our comfort zone is because we’re all naturally wired to seek predictability and safety.
Our brain has one goal – keep us alive. That means retreating from situations where we may get exposed and face fear, rejection, and embarrassment.
It’s these situations that you need to lean into if you want to achieve your goals and dreams. Here are some comfort zone quotes that will inspire you to do just that.
- “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
- “When you go out of your comfort zone and it works, there’s nothing more satisfying.” ~ Kristen Wiig
- “We have to be honest about what we want and take risks rather than lie to ourselves and make excuses to stay in our comfort zone.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
- “Coming out of your comfort zone is tough in the beginning, chaotic in the middle, and awesome in the end…because in the end, it shows you a whole new world. Make an attempt!”~ Manoj Arora
- “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
- “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
- “There is no comfort in the learning zone and there is no learning in the comfort zone.” ~ Anonymous
- “Each time you try something for the first time you will grow – a little piece of the unknown is removed and replaced with a sense of empowerment.” ~ Annette White
- “Struggle and suffering are the essence of a life worth living. If you’re not pushing yourself beyond the comfort zone, if you’re not demanding more from yourself – expanding and learning as you go – you’re choosing a numb existence. You’re denying yourself an extraordinary trip.” ~ Dean Karnazes
- “Your self-imposed prison. That thing is called your comfort zone. Challenge it, stretch it. You will thank yourself.” ~ Tony Curl
- “Sometimes we have to step out of our comfort zones. We have to break the rules. And we have to discover the sensuality of fear. We need to face it, challenge it, dance with it.” ~ Kyra Davis
- “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.” ~ Martin Luther King Jr.
- “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
- “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.” ~ Abraham Maslow
- “Risk, then, is not just part of life. It is life. The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place. It’s the high-anxiety zone, but it’s also where you discover who you are.” ~ Nick Vujicic
- “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
- “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
- “Fear and anxiety many times indicates that we are moving in a positive direction, out of the safe confines of our comfort zone, and in the direction of our true purpose.” ~ Charles F. Glassman
- “Step out of your comfort zone. Comfort zones, where your unrealized dreams are buried, are the enemies of achievement. Leadership begins when you step outside your comfort zone.” ~ Roy T. Bennett
- “If there’s never even a bit of uncertainty in your life, you are just existing in your same old comfort zone. Take that leap.” ~ Christine E. Szymanski
- “If everybody is always comfortable with you, you’re probably not telling them the whole truth.” ~ Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
- “On the other side of comfort is optimized potential. If we don’t explore this place, we limit our limitless possibilities.” ~ Suzanne F. Stevens
- “As you get comfortable revealing who you are, you help others stop fearing and concealing the magical feelings of who they are.” ~ Curtis Tyrone Jones
- “No obstacle is strong enough to stop those who trust in a purpose. Winners are not infallible, but instead they use the impulse of small setbacks as opportunities to polish their skills, leave the comfort zone and move forward with determination towards success.” ~ Prof. Vinícius Montgomery de Miranda
- “It’s funny, humans tend to hatch our most challenging goals and dreams, the ones that demand our greatest effort yet promise absolutely nothing, when we are tucked into our comfort zones.” ~ David Goggins quotes
- “Life will only change when you become more committed to your dreams than you are to your comfort zone.” ~ Billy Cox
- “Each stride you take outside your comfort zone, allows you to handle everyday situations with a greater piece of mind.” ~ Ron Baratono
- “We won’t grow and learn, doing what we’ve always done, and thinking what we’ve always thought. We need to move beyond our comfort zones. We need to engage with new and different if we want to expand ourselves.” ~ Akiroq Bost
- “The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not being in your comfort zone is great fun.” ~ Benedict Cumberbatch
- “It’s not about getting out of your comfort zone to reach your goal. It’s about widening your comfort zone so far that your goal fits comfortably inside. Once you do that, hitting your goals will be like hitting 3s for Steph Curry.” ~ Richie Norton
- “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
- “My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I’ve pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.” ~ Alex Honnold
- “The only thing that is stopping you from where you are to where you want to go is your comfort zone. “ ~ Dhaval Gaudier
- “You will face obstacles. Don’t let them scare you. Fear is part of the game. Trying things outside of your comfort zone is essential, because your ability to grow as a person is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can handle. So be strong and fearless on this journey we call life.” ~ Bruce Jenner
- “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
- “Comfort controls us. Fear scares us. To grow you have to overcome fear and go out of your comfort zone to be what you always wanted to be.” ~ Debasish Mridha
- “I will guarantee you that the day you step outside your comfort zone by making success your goal is the day you discover that adversity, risk, and daring will make life sweeter than you ever imagined.” ~ Mark Burnett
- “Choosing a path for convenience and speed is usually a recipe for mediocrity. The things that most enrich our lives usually demand a bigger investment of time and discipline.” ~ Gina Mohammed, Ph. D.
- “Anything you do to stretch yourself out of your comfort zone will ultimately enable you to take larger risks and grow.” ~ Leslie Evans
- “If you’re in a comfort zone, afraid to venture out. Remember that all winners were at one time filled with doubt.” ~ Unknown
- “Optimists are not afraid of changes. Yes, it is so really painful to get rid of the habitual comfort zone! But who decided that changes must be for the worse only? Optimists firmly believe that they will be able to benefit from the most difficult situations, and so, they aren’t afraid of changes.” ~ Vanessa Angel
- “Don´t make your life a prison. Too many people live desperate lives because they only look to feel good in the moment. But overcome short-term pleasure and you will succeed. And fast. Every effort to escape from your comfort zone will boost your results.” ~ David Valois
Comfort Zone Quotes (Short)
Next up, we’ve got more of the same comfort quotes that are a little shorter, but just as powerful
- “The comfort zone is the great enemy of courage and confidence.” ~ Brian Tracy
- “Do one thing every day that scares you.” ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- “If it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you.” ~ Unknown
- “A comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there.” ~ John Assaraf
- “You will live a dull and boring life if you do not take risks.” ~ Harvey Specter
- “Step outside your comfort zone because that’s the only way that you’re going to grow.” ~ Madeleine Brewer
- “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
- “Dreams become a nightmare if you remain in your comfort zone.” ~ Eshaan Thakur
- “You’ll always miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” ~ Wayne Gretzky
- “Discomfort is your friend.” ~ Joe Rogan
- “Before anything great is really achieved, your comfort zone must be disturbed.” ~ Ray Lewis
- “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” ~ Neal Donald Walsch
- “Our comfort zones can be our greatest enemy to our potential.” ~ David Cottrell
- “You are confined only by the walls that you build yourself.” ~ Andrew Murphy
- “A man grows most tired when standing still.” ~ Chinese Proverb
- “It’s better to do something badly then to not do it at all.” ~ Jordan Peterson
- “Give out everything you came with. Don’t remain in your comfort zone full of potentials only to die with them unused.” ~ Clement Ogedegbe
- “A ship is always safe at the shore but that is not what it is built for.” ~ Albert Einstein
- “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
- “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
- “Don’t be afraid to give up the good and go for the great.” ~ Steve Prefontaine
- “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
- “If you opt for a safe life, you will never know what it’s like to win.” ~ Richard Branson
- “The comfort zone is where dreams are gradually starved to death.” ~ Emmanuel Apetsi
- “A step outside your comfort zone is a step into your miracle zone.” ~ Cristie B. Gardner
- “Don’t let your life goals fall victim to the allure of comfortable routines.” ~ Zero Dean
- “He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life.” ~ Muhammad Ali
- “The best things in life are often waiting for you at the exit ramp of your comfort zone.” ~ Karen Salmansohn
- “Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffins, you die.” ~ Stan Dale
- “It is better to explore a gainful uncertainty than to sit in a painful certainty.” ~ Ogwo David Emenike
- “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” ~ Helen Keller
- “You can choose courage or you can choose comfort. You cannot have both.” ~ Brene Brown
- “Great people do things before they’re ready.” ~ Amy Poehler
- “I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.” ~ Samuel Larsen
- “There’s only so much growing you can do in your comfort zone.” ~ Ranal Currie
- “The place between your comfort zone and your dream is where life takes place.” ~ Helen Keller
- “The most interesting things in life happen just on the other side of your comfort zone.” ~ Michael Hyatt
- “Life’s like working out: there’s no pain in the comfort zone, but is that really where you want to live?” ~ Robin Sharma
- “Every time you take a risk or move out of your comfort zone, you have a great opportunity to learn more about yourself and your capacity.” ~ Jack Canfield
End Of Your Comfort Zone Quotes
It’s true that life happens at the end of your comfort zone. The most meaningful decisions that I’ve made in my life, such as dropping out of college and fixing my social anxiety, filled me with fear and anxiety.
It was scary for me to drop out of school and pursue a business idea knowing there was no guarantee that it would work out.
It was terrifying to force myself to talk to strangers and be in uncomfortable social situations – two things that I had shied away from my entire life.
Forcing myself to persevere put me at the edge of my comfort zone. And it turned out that’s exactly where I needed to be in order to get my life together and start seeing positive change.
Here’s a list of comfort zone quotes that highlight the importance of stepping out to the edge of what you believe you’re capable of.
- “Step so far outside of your comfort zone that you forget how to get back.” ~ Anonymous
- “You have to get outside your comfort zone if you’re going to make significant changes, and since few things scare people like the unknown, feeling fear is an excellent sign you’re on the right track.” ~ Jen Sincero
- “Face the fear, even if it’s only a tiptoe outside your comfort zone instead of a leap. Progress is progress.” ~ Annette White
- “In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety.” ~ Abraham Maslow
- “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and start getting excited about what could go right.” ~ Tony Robbins
- “Leaving your comfort zone is hard. Being broke is hard. Pick your hard.” ~ Grant Cardone
- “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
- “As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.” ~ Robin Sharma
- “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
- “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.
- “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
- “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
- “Growth happens in adversity. When you come out of your comfort zone, you tend to discover new facets to your creativity and talent. Troubles don’t always break you; they make you too.” ~ Avijeet Das
- “Worry is the fear of living your truth and facing it head on. Live beyond your comfort zone. It’s really not a comfortable place to stay anyway.” ~ Christine E. Szymanski
- “Change happens when you extend your reach. Your comfort zone is your enemy. As long as you play it safe, you will never become all that you are destined to be.” ~ Germany Kent
- “Fight your fear, your laziness, your ignorance before you worry about fighting the competition.” ~ Amit Kalantri
- “Each one of us has a comfort zone. The problem comes when we are unwilling to leave it. ~ Bill Courtney
- “Better to step out of your comfort zone, enjoy new experiences and not know what’s coming your way, than stick to routines and be bored with the same end results.” ~ April Mae Monterrosa
- “If you’re in a comfort zone, afraid to venture out, remember that all winners were at one time filled with doubt.” ~ Anonymous
- “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
- “I have stepped outside my comfort zone enough to know that, yes, the world does fall apart, but not in the way that you fear.” ~ Tan Le
- “I’m continually trying to make choices that put me against my own comfort zone. As long as you’re uncomfortable, it means you’re growing.” ~ Ashton Kutcher
- “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
- “I constantly get out of my comfort zone. Looking cool is the easiest way to mediocrity. The coolest guy in my high school ended up working in a carwash. Once you push yourself into something new. And a whole new world of opportunities opens up. But you might get hurt, in fact you will get hurt. But amazingly when you heal you are somewhere you’ve never been.” ~ Terry Crews
- “Whenever you feel uncomfortable, instead of retreating back into your old comfort zone, pat yourself on the back and say, “I must be growing,” and continue moving forward.” ~ T. Harv Eker
- “Hitting your comfort zone’s boundaries is simply a sign that you’re about to have the chance to grow.” ~ Clare Josa
- “Do not allow your comfort zone to prevent you from adapting to change or from trying new ventures. To be trapped in what is comfortable is the same as allowing yourself to believe that you must remain captive to what was once sufficient for survival.” ~ Byron Pulsifer
- “Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.” ~ Bear Grylls
- “No one likes to move beyond their comfort zone, but as the saying goes, that’s where the magic happens. It’s where we can grow, learn, and develop in a way that expands our horizons beyond what we thought was possible.” ~ Andy Molinsky
- “By stepping out of your comfort zone, you begin to feel comfortable with the one thing that was once so unfamiliar it gave you anxiety.” ~ Brian Cagneey
- “Do not be afraid of change. Change is beautiful and there’s no stopping it from happening. Break your routine and try new things. Being able to do something outside of your comfort zone will give you a feeling of fulfilment and confidence.” ~ Ashley Rosebloom
- “People often behave in a similar way. Habit patterns and ways of thinking become deeply established, and it seems easier and more comforting to follow them than to cope with change, even when that change may represent freedom, achievement, and success.” ~ Earl Nightingale
Final Thoughts
That wraps up this extensive list of motivational comfort zone quotes. Hopefully, some of the quotes from these inspirational people resonated with you.
The great thing about these quotes is that they come from people with experience. They know what it’s like to face their fears and leave their comfort zone – they’ve been over the line that many people spend the rest of their lives waiting to cross.
Heed their words and use them as fuel to start taking action and stretching your boundaries. Because the bottom line is that your most ambitious goals and dreams lie on the other side of fear and discomfort.
If you never try, you’ll never know. So get out there and start challenging yourself. Get comfortable being uncomfortable.If you’re looking for some inspiration to start getting out of your comfort zone, I put together a list of comfort zone challenges which you can check out here.
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