Max Lucado Quotes

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Courage is not the lack of fear. It is acting in spite of it.

Your fears are not walls, but hurdles. Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquering of it.

Life begins where fear ends.

Courage faces fear and thereby masters it

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do.

If something scares me, then I have to do it.

Meet your fears with faith.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise.

Fear isn't an excuse to come to a standstill. It's the impetus to step up and strike.

The greatest sin is fear and giving up.

Once you face your fear, nothing is ever as hard as you think.

You gain nothing by becoming cowards.

The best thing about fear is that it provides a wonderful opportunity to demonstrate courage.

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

Action conquers fear.

You can't let yourself be pushed around. You can't live in fear. That's no way to live your life.

The Bible says to 'fear not,' but this doesn't mean you should never feel scared. It means when you do feel fear, keep going forward and do what you are supposed to do. Or as I like to say, do it afraid.

My motto is: feel the fear and do it anyway.

Real courage is knowing what faces you and knowing how to face it.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

The first and great commandment is, don't let them scare you.