Max Lucado Quotes

I may have absolutely no control over what happens to us, but we can control how we respond. If we choose the right attitude, we can rise above whatever challenges we face.

No matter how bad things get, you can still walk away.

Our attitude in the face of life's challenges determines our suffering or our freedom.

You've just got to go out there and try to control the things you can control. Deal with things and stay mentally strong.

While we cannot always choose what happens to us, we can choose our responses.

when the fierce, burning winds blow over our lives-and we cannot prevent them-let us, too, accept the inevitable. And then get busy and pick up the pieces.

You're going to have highs and lows, but it's how you get through the lows.

There are some things you can only learn in a storm.

Sometimes there is nothing you can do, and in those times, you must do something anyway.

The key to success is to keep your head above the water.

You've only mastered the storm you can sleep through.

Suffering is optional. You’re gonna have some pain but it doesn’t have to make you suffer.

That's the thing about life. A lot of the time, it isn't easy at all. We just have to try to make the best of it.

When life is at that extremely hard time, all we can control is our attitude.

When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments.

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet.

When the moment comes to stop running from your past, to turn around and face the thing you thought you could not face--the moment when your life teeters between giving up and getting up--when that moment comes, and it always comes, if you can't get up and you can't give up either, here's what you do: Crawl.

You wouldn't abandon ship in a storm just because you couldn't control the winds.

Disappointments are inevitable; discouragement is a choice.

We cannot choose the things that will happen to us. But we can choose the attitude we will take toward anything that happens. Success or failure depends on your attitude.

What really matters is not whether we have problems, but how we go through them. We must keep going on to make it through whatever we are facing.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly if they even roll a few more on it. A strength which becomes clearer and stronger through experiences of such obstacles is the only strength that can conquer them. Resistance is only a waste of strength.

You cannot control all of what happens to you, but you can control your attitude toward all of what happens to you...You can choose to be happy and grateful rather than disappointed and bitter, by focusing on how it could have turned out worse but didn't, rather than how it could have turned out better but didn't.