Do not call fear patience, passivity prayerfulness, endless consultation wisdom, or avoidance consensus-building.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Ideas worth planting
Fear & Courage
Small thoughts. Strong roots. Truths worth carrying.
We become courageous by repeatedly choosing faithfulness while fear is still speaking.
~ Leadership Masterworks
What is the next right thing I must do?
~ Leadership Masterworks
Fear affects every personality, but it does not wear the same clothing.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Recklessness may look bold, but ignoring danger is not the same as mastering fear.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Harshness may look decisive, but volume is not courage.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Courage is the willingness to do what is right while fully aware that doing it may cost something.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Fear should bring information to the leader. It must never become the leader.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Courage lets fear speak. It simply refuses to give fear the deciding vote.
~ Leadership Masterworks
You are not required to feel fearless. You are called to be faithful.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Courage often begins before confidence arrives.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Fear makes a useful adviser and a terrible executive.
~ Leadership Masterworks
Fear may attend the meeting. Courage refuses to let it chair.
~ Leadership Masterworks