personal development on Fearlessness

I…vividly remember one of my teachers telling the story of three young boys whose route to school went alongside a high wall. Every day as the boys walked to school, they wondered what was on the othe...

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear – not absence of fear.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the assessment that something else is more important than fear.

Courage is Fear That has said its prayers.

Beloved, I say, let your fears go, lest they make you faint hearted. Stop inspiring fear in those around you and now take your stand in faith. God has been good and He will continue to manifest His go...

Courage is putting one foot in front of the other when all you can see is a faint outline of the future.

Faith is the willingness to risk anything on God.

What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?

Do not ask for fears to be removed; ask for courage equal to the fears.

The virtue of courage is about the fear of dangers of death.

Fear is what we feel—but brave is what we do.

Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.

Many, many great things have begun with a single act of courage, throughout history and today. A person steps out and makes one courageous decision and that one domino starts many other dominoes falli...

“Real courage is when you know you’re licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.”

Take the case of courage. No quality has ever so much addled the brains and tangled the definitions of merely rational sages. Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to li...

Faith is a free surrender and a joyous wager on the unseen, unknown, untested goodness of God.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Courage is always greatest when blended with meekness; intellectual ability is most admirable when it sparkles in the setting of a modest self-distrust; and never does the human soul appear so strong ...

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The Gospels list some 125 Christ-issued imperatives. Of these, 21 urge us to “not be afraid” or “not fear” or “have courage” or “take heart” or “be of good cheer.” The second most common command, to l...

Fear and growth go together like macaroni and cheese. It’s a package deal. The decision to grow always involves a choice between risk and comfort. This means that to be a follower of Jesus you must re...

Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live, taking the form of a readiness to die.

Unless there is an element of risk in our exploits for God, there is no need for faith.

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.

The principal act of courage is to endure and withstand dangers doggedly rather than to attack them.

I’m convinced that if we have a God-sized, God-given courage, then we will be freed up to be the people of God, living out the mission of God, marked by the joy of God.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.

A fourteenth-century definition of courage is “to speak one’s mind by telling all of one’s heart.” Courage is connecting one’s heart back to one’s mind, stitching together the separated parts of ourse...