Mark Batterson Quotes

The comfort zone takes our greatest aspirations and turns them into excuses for not bothering to aspire.

The more you stop giving power to your excuses, the more you'll send power to your dreams.

There's gonna be times when people tell you that you can't live your dreams, this is what I tell them, Never Say Never.

Don't ever deny yourself a chance at your dreams. We're all meant for great things, but not everyone believes that can happen.

I feel like you can hope and dream and wish, but until you do, nothing is going to happen. So whatever you're passionate about, whatever your hopes and dreams are, you have to go full-steam ahead. But of course I have my moments where I'm trying so hard, and it never seems to break through. It's always when you want to give up that something's going to happen, right? So you just can't give up.

Never allow others to put obstacles in the pathway of your dreams

The only person that is going to tell you that you can't do things in life are people who have failed.

The only limits to the possibilities in your life tomorrow are the buts you use today.

Remember your dreams and fight for them. You must know what you want from life. There is just one thing that makes your dream become impossible: the fear of failure.

Why haven't you achieved your goals yet? What are your favorite excuses, and how do they hold you back?

A lot of people have dreams and never do anything about them. When you have ideas and dreams, you do something about it.

Never stop believing you can fulfill your dreams.

Do not let anything get in your way of chasing your dreams.

If fear causes you to retreat from your dreams, you will never give the world anything new.

Make YOUR can larger than YOUR can't, and YOUR DREAMS bigger than YOUR doubts

Fear and self-doubt have always been the greatest enemies of human potential.

Whatever your dreams are, start taking them very, very seriously.

For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.

If you're not frightened that you might fail, you'll never do the job. If you're frightened, you'll work like crazy.

I keep having vivid dreams of success. Then it's time to sleep.

Dreams require down payments. Dreams are free, but the journey isn't. There is a price to pay. First, you must pay the price of dealing with criticism from people who matter. Ralph Waldo Emerson said, 'Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong.' Second, you must pay the price of overcoming your fears. Failure, rejection, and looking foolish are common fears - but they are just feelings that can be conquered and removed from your thoughts. Finally, you must be willing to pay the price of hard work in order to realize your dream.

Get unstuck from whatever it is you perceive is holding you back from realizing your dreams.

Work hard, believe in your dreams, follow your dreams, don't give up, don't let failures hold you back. Those things were preached to me. They've taken a firm rooting system in my beliefs and what I'm passing on to my kids.

I think in between where you are and where you want to be is a sea of reasons why you can't get there.