Max Lucado Quotes

It's hard not to be afraid. Be less afraid.

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I need to be able to face things.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway me. That resilience came from my family. It flowed through our bloodline.

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

Fear lives in the head. And courage lives in the heart. The job is to get from one to the other.

Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief.

The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.

Fear does not have any special power unless you empower it by submitting to it.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

What is fear but courage's shadow?

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.

Hope that is the only antidote to fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.