Quotes by "Craig D. Lounsbrough"

How full the cup of my life might be is based largely on the degree to which I’m willing to risk failure, with the degree to which I’m willing to risk success following at a close second.

The only place that a defeat becomes a defeat is when I make it so in my mind.

When it comes to life, I would much rather have run the race well than have run the race fast. For if we understand life, we would realize that the first one to cross the finish line is not necessarily the one who actually won the race.

It’s not that mankind is failing. Rather, it’s that mankind has failed to understand that failure is most often a choice based on the belief that we cannot succeed.

It might be said of me that I could have done it differently or that there was a better way or that I should have waited when I didn’t. But what cannot be said of me is that I didn’t try. And without question, I would rather have tried and blundered in every attempt than not have tried to make any attempt.

Many adventurers would say that opportunity is something that you find as part of a relentless search, or that it’s something that an imagination unleashed shapes and creates. And while all of that sounds bold and wonderfully fearless, it’s my sense that opportunity is more that thing to which we’ve been called by something larger than ourselves, and less something that is a product of ourselves.

My prayer is that none of us would ever find ourselves at the bottom of a hole looking up, but if we happen to find ourselves there my prayer would be that God would be at the top of the hole reminding us that He’s also at the bottom.

Fear tells us to stay down so we won’t get knocked down again. God says to get up because while we might get knocked down again, at least it’ll be up the road from the last place where that happened.

Without exaggerating the point, the difference between ‘what I should do’ verses ‘what I want to do’ is quite frankly the difference between success and failure.

Real victory is based on surrender to the right things, while failure is based on the unwillingness to surrender to anything.

To blame my failures on the lack of resources is less about the lack of resources and more about my unwillingness to access those resources.

Achievement is not about ‘doing something.’ Rather, it’s about ‘being someone.

If I only go as far as I can take myself, I’m not all that certain that I’ve gone much of anywhere at all. But once I dared to look outside of myself, I realized that God hands out unlimited passes to the anywhere of everywhere.

More times than not, going backwards is a necessary part of going forwards.

The greatest ‘victory’ in any victory is that I didn’t make it about myself.

Will it take the death of me to finally learn that the things that I describe as success may very well be the death of me?

Greatness is the born of ordinary men who decided to work extraordinarily hard.

The man who waits to know everything is the man who never does anything.

The difference between ‘wanting’ something and ‘having’ something is ‘doing’ something.

Real relationships are the product of time spent, which is why so many of us have so few of them.