Max Lucado Quotes

There's fear in everything, but we can't just succumb to that. We have to suppress it, so we get used to suppressing fear to make it through the our day. Otherwise, we'd become paralyzed by them.

To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.

Be scared. You can't help that. But don't be afraid.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'

Everyone's frightened. It's how you deal with that fear. It's very, very powerful. And what you've got to do is get it as a tailwind instead of a headwind. And that's a little bit of a judo trick in your mind. And once you learn that, fear starts to excite you. Because you know that you are going to enter into something and try it and risk.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

Fear is a powerful beast. But we can learn to ride it.

I think it's okay to be afraid, but it's not okay to let it rule your life.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

There's a very fine line between anxiety and excitement. If you don't let anxiety stop you, you can nudge it over the line.

Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it.

Fear can't hurt you," she said. "When it washes over you, give it no power. It's a snake with no venom. Remember that. That knowledge can save you.

When fear ceases to scare you, it cannot stay.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

The difference between a regular person and a warrior is not that you're not afraid. Hell, I was afraid. I don't want to go into combat with anybody who is not afraid because it's healthy to have fear. But what makes a warrior is the guy who can control that fear, channel it, and actually use it as a weapon.

Fearlessness is like a muscle. I know from my own life that the more I exercise it the more natural it becomes to not let my fears run me.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger.

Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.