Do you need a daily dose of inspiration? I do – especially when it comes to getting off my butt, making an effort, and doing something outside of my comfort zone.
Reading a quote in the morning helps me remember why I do the work I do. It is also a good trigger for me to quit the shenanigans and get to work.
When I googled around for quotes to get me out of my comfort zone, however, I was disappointed. There were a lot of quotes, but many of them repeated a thousand times over, and they all came in weird shapes and sizes. Worst of all, hardly any of them were actually talking about comfort, discomfort, and the concept of the comfort zone. They all used roundabout terms or other vague descriptions.
Therefore, I decided to assemble my own list. A proper list. The result: 77 comfort zone quotes with high-resolution images.
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For all of you looking for true comfort zone quotes, here you are: 77 quotes that actually mention comfort, discomfort, and the comfort zone. I included sources wherever I could find them. Some are anonymous.
77 Comfort Zone Quotes (Including Inspiring Images)
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“A comfort zone is a beautiful place – but nothing ever grows there.”
— Anonymous
“Find your uncomfortzone.”
— Anonymous
“Comfort is the enemy of achievement.”
— Farrah Gray
“To be outstanding – get comfortable with being uncomfortable.”
— Alrik Koudenburg
“The sooner you step away from your comfort zone you’ll realize that it really wasn’t all that comfortable.”
— Eddie Harris, Jr.
“Great things never came from comfort zones.”
— Anonymous
“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.
“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”
— Neale Donald Walsh
“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
“In the absence of a challenge, there is comfort. In the presence of comfort, there is no change.”
— Matt LeMond
“All progress takes place outside the comfort zone.”
— Anonymous
“A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what a ship is built for.”
— John Augustus Shedd
“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
“Outside of the comfort zone is where the magic happens.”
— Anonymous
“Comfort zones are most often expanded through discomfort.”
— Peter McWilliams
“Bad habits are like comfort zones; easier to get into, but harder to get out of.”
— Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha
“You need to get outside of your comfort zone to write songs that are interesting, songs that are compelling, songs that are different from what other people are writing.”
— Macklemore
“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.”
— Anonymous
“If you don’t step out of your comfort zone and face your fears, the number of situations that make you uncomfortable will keep growing.”
— Theo Pistorius
“Life loses its meaning when we get stuck up in the comfort zone.”
— M. K. Soni
“Be willing to get out of your comfort zone, if you want to grow.”
— Chelsea Vincent
“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
“Dare to learn, to be different, to set your goals, to move out of your comfort zone, to be persistent.”
— Anonymous
“A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.”
— Lao-Tzu
“Nobody ever died of discomfort, yet living in the name of comfort has killed more ideas, more opportunities, more actions, and more growth than everything else combined. Comfort kills!”
— T. Harv Eker
“Something in human nature tempts us to stay where we’re comfortable. We try to find a plateau, a resting place, where we have comfortable stress and adequate finances. Where we have comfortable associations with people, without the intimidation of meeting new people and entering strange situations. Of course, all of us need to plateau for a time. We climb and then plateau for assimilation. But once we’ve assimilated what we’ve learned, we climb again. It’s unfortunate when we’ve done our last climb. When we have made our last climb, we are old, whether forty or eighty.”
— Fred Smith
“As you move outside of your comfort zone, what was once the unknown and frightening becomes your new normal.”
— Robin S. Sharma
“When you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life.”
— Eckhart Tolle
“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. Doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risk like that – that is what life is. You might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that’s really special and if you’re not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself.”
— Amy Poehler
“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
“Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone, it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.”
— Suzy Strutner
“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
“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
“Anything you to do to stretch yourself out of your comfort zone will ultimately enable you to take larger risks and grow.”
— Leslie Evans
“Comfort zones are plush lined coffins. When you stay in your plush lined coffin, you die.”
— Stan Dale
“Your comfort zone is not a place that you want to remain in. Dare, discover, be all that you can be.”
— Catherine Pulsifer
“I used to have a comfort zone where I knew I wouldn’t fail. The same four walls and busywork were really more like jail.”
— Anonymous
“My friend, living one’s comfort zone is no small chore! Trust me, I’ve learned this first hand. I can say that when all’s said and done it’s worth it!”
— Josh Hinds
“Although when you first step out of your comfort zone it may feel difficult and fearful, you will at some point become comfortable again.”
— Wendy Hearn
“The other perfect way to defeat yourself is stay within your comfort zone – a zone where you have felt comfortable for years, or a comfort zone conditioned by your parents who may have repeatedly told you that you have to stick to a job just to make sure you have a secure paycheck. This kind of conditioning will mean that you will have to be adaptive, flexible and willing to move into an uncomfortable zone – a zone that makes you stretch to accomplish what you want.”
— Byron Pulsifer
“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’ve learned in my life that it is important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you’re not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.”
— J.R. Martinez
“We tend to be held back from our goals by the simplicity of our comfort zones, but just how comfortable are we? Wouldn’t we be more content living in our dreams?”
— Michelle C. Ustaszeski
“Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn’t, you would already possess it, would you not?”
— Chris Murray
“If you remain in your comfort zone, you will not go any further.”
— Catherine Pulsifer
“To the degree we’re not living our dreams, our comfort zone has more control of us than we have over ourselves.”
— Peter McWilliams
“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
“What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don’t want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep myself scared.”
— Michael Fassbender
“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
“I don’t like being stagnant. I want to continue to grow and just be better at what I do, and the only way to do that is to keep stepping outside of your comfort zone.”
— Vanessa Hudgens
“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.
“We all need to stand at a window from time to time to reflect on our lives and what we are doing or not doing, what we could do, but are too afraid to do or too caught up in our own comfort zone to push just a little harder to move through these limitations.”
— Byron Pulsifer
“I like learning stuff. The more information you can get about a person or a subject, the more you can pour into a potential project. I made a decision to do different things. I want to do things that have a better chance of being thought of as original. I do everything I can to disrupt my comfort zone.”
— Brian Grazer
“I mostly like to travel and volunteer because I get antsy if I stay in my comfort zone for too long.”
— Eden Sher
“The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.”
— Benedict Cumberbatch
“Comedians tend to find a comfort zone and stay there and do lamer versions of themselves for the rest of their career.”
— Chris Rock
“When we become comfortable, do you know what happens around us? Absolutely nothing. Each day becomes just like the one before. We do what we have always done, therefore we get what we have always gotten.”
— Kip Davis
“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
“As an artist, you want to stretch. That’s the only way you’re going to grow. If I stay inside my comfort zone, do roles that I’ve done before, then I’m never going to get better as an actress.”
— Jurnee Smollett
“People tend to play in their comfort zone, so the best things are achieved in a state of surprise, actually.”
— Brian Eno
“It’s good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.”
— Mary-Louise Parker
“I like doing things that make me uncomfortable. I try not to have a comfort zone.”
— Jennifer Echols
“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
“You have to keep challenging yourself. I’ve always tried to do that, and I’m not saying I’ve always been successful. Maybe I’ve rewritten the same song; it’s inevitable, but I’ve always been mindful of taking the writing somewhere else. You can’t stick in your little comfort zone.”
— Paul Weller
“I think generally, in life, I try to always ensure that there are periodic moments where I do venture out of my comfort zone, because that’s what keeps you alive. That’s what keeps you from getting stale.”
— Queen Rania of Jordan
“I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.”
— Gore Verbinski
“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
“In the long run, our comfort zone becomes our uncomfortable zone.”
— Charles F. Glassman
“When you go out of your comfort zone and it works, there’s nothing more satisfying.”
— Kristen Wiig
“I think anyone taken out of their comfort zone and put somewhere else will change.”
— Samuel Larsen
“If your circle doesn’t challenge you to grow beyond your comfort zone, then you are definitely in the wrong circle.”
— Edmond Mbiaka
“You know something, it’s not easy to break out of your comfort zone. People will tear you down, tell you you shouldn’t have bothered in the first place. But let me tell you something, there’s not much of a difference between a stadium full with cheering fans and an angry crowd screaming abuse at you. They’re both just making a lot of noise. How you take it is up to you. Convince yourself they’re cheering for you. You do that, and someday, they will.”
— Glee
“Habits are familiar and comfortable, putting our reactions on autopilot and often leading us, instead, to great discomfort.”
— Charles F. Glassman
“You can either grow or degenerate. Either of these is happening all around you, all the time. There is nothing called a ‘safe comfort zone’. This is a convenient name depicting the process of degeneration.”
— Manoj Arora
“So when you feel this time approaching, and your comfort zone’s in view. Stop and think about what you’re feeling, and see if what you’re feeling is true.”
— Julie Hebert
“Comfort is your biggest trap and coming out of your comfort zone your biggest challenge.”
— Manoj Arora
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May you achieve all your dreams and remember: Your life begins the moment you step outside your comfort zone!
