Quotes by Craig D. Lounsbrough

Don’t create a future that’s going to make you long for the past.

Remember, the other half of starting a fire is putting it out.

The best time to put out a fire is before it starts.

Politicians have to sell themselves. Leaders just have to be themselves.

If I never sit in the living rooms of people’s lives, I am entirely unable to lead them out of the house.

Some leaders believe that the caboose pulls the train.

I only fear tomorrow because of the manner in which we are crafting it today.

Tomorrow will not be based on those who lead us. Rather, it will be based on what we demand of those who lead us.

It doesn’t take much to change your life, except everything that you have. That’s why so few people do it when every person actually could.

One of the most dangerous things that you can do is to change yourself before you know yourself.

Transformation that is neither fiercely turbulent nor inordinately frightening is not transformation.

Easter does not change history. Rather, it transforms what history does to us and what the future can do for us.

When you change you are illustrating the fact that it can be done. And what people need today are illustrations.

God is not interested in parts of you, for having a part will never change the whole.

Memory is fleeting. Legacy is eternal.

There is no greater way to destroy the negative rhetoric in our culture than to consistently live out a greater good.

If all that you do with the fact that you’re here is to be here, no one will ever notice your absence at the point that you are not.

The main barrier to our belief that life can be better is our belief that someone else is supposed to do it.

Altering the perception of the 'reality' is a denial of both the reality and my inability to alter it.

A great world is only as far away as our willingness to make it great.

Don’t think for a minute that you can’t change your world. For if you believe that you cannot, you have come to believe in who you are not.

If we allow tomorrow to be nothing more than a repeat of yesterday, it’s never really a tomorrow.

From the boy the man emerges. And from the man emerges a better world.

If the space that you take up is the sum total of the space that you influence, you have wasted your space while robbing all of the other spaces.

If you were to use one word to describe your life, would it be a noun or a verb?

Not a day goes by that did not have a great opportunity packaged in it somewhere. And the question is, did the opportunity go by with the day?

I don’t want to waste my time winning an election. Rather, I want to invest my time in changing the world.

History remembers those who wrote on its pages, not those who discarded them.

The worst that things get, the greater the opportunity to best the worst.

The best gifts are those that leave something in the heart of the recipient long after the gift has left their hands.

I’m not looking for a better world. Rather, I’m looking for better men who refuse to let the world be anything but better.

You can’t ‘cancel’ courage.

One of the greatest feats of bravery is to acknowledge the presence of cowardice, but to refuse the possibility of surrender.

The people who believe that ethics, morals, and values are the product of a by-gone era are the very people for which that by-gone era existed.

It is the hopelessness of the battle that awakens the passion of the warrior.

The exercise of faith is to risk moving beyond the logic of men and in doing so realizing that the real risk would have been not to move.

My focus is never on the storm. Rather, my focus is on the next step that I will take into the storm.

It’s not the genius of an idea that makes it great. Rather, it’s the courage to pursue it.

The heart of a giant is never bound by the size of the man.

If the amount of times we get up is just one less than the amount of times that we've been knocked down, then we're spending our lives lying down.

Might it be that I chose to invest my life in something ‘good’ so that I could avoid the fear of investing in something ‘great?

Once I stare into the face of God, I can stare into the face of anything.

Maybe the best way to think about something in a ‘new’ way is to believe enough in what we already know to actually act on it.

What we should fear the most is fearing what we shouldn’t.

It is not the presence of fear that bothers me. Rather, it is the cowardice within me that refuses to face the fear. That is what bothers me.

The greatest risk is not risking.

It’s easy to spot a hero. They’re the ones who refuse the title.

The hallmark of all great journeys is the decision to walk directly into that which we would otherwise seek to escape.

This isn’t the last time that you’re going to get knocked down, so don’t make it the last time that you’re going to get up.

Many times in life it’s not about turning on the light. Rather, it’s about refusing to pull the shades.

The courage in chasing any dream rests in our refusal not to chase it.

It is natural to doubt. It is part of our humanity to fear. But the greater part of us is that which doubts both and fears neither.

Bravery is courage in action.

I’m not brave. I just refuse to be a coward.

Weeds are the things that choose to be persistent despite the reality that they’re going to get pulled.

Despite how crowded it might be, you can always find a seat on the sidelines of life. However, not all empty seats should be sat in.

Triumph is not having achieved. Triumph is being determined to achieve.

I would wonder if one of the greatest acts of bravery is to admit that we are not, but to act the part anyway.

Let our actions be our words.

It is easy to speak of bravery, but it is difficult to live the words.

Brave words are only brave when they birth the actions that they speak of.

Failure is an option, not a fact.

The only time that I really lost a war was when I refused to fight the next one.

The greatest act of bravery is to admit that we’re not.

It’s not about giving your dreams wings to fly. Rather, it’s about refusing to clip them.

Many of the advances that we make in the battles that we’re fighting today will be evidenced in the battles that we won’t have to fight tomorrow.

Your failures are not embarrassments to be buried. Rather, they are seeds to be planted.

Make the story of your success greater than the accounts of your failures.

To stay down in whatever place I was last knocked down is to decide that life is done long before it is done.

God designed you to stand on your shackles.

It doesn’t matter what’s coming at us. God defeated it before it ever left wherever it was coming from.

Success may not have been ‘around the corner,’ but the fact that I persisted until I was is success.

Depravity has nothing to do with wealth.

The light at the end of the tunnel doesn’t matter if you’re going backwards.

I have defined victory not by the outcome of any battle, but by the integrity with which I fought the battle.

Sometimes the greatest victories are neither great nor victories.

Too often surrender is exhaustion that was teetering on the edge of victory.

Even if yesterday was wildly successful, I still don’t want to repeat it. Rather, I want to build on it.

The most critical time in any battle is not when I’m fatigued, it’s when I no longer care.

Intelligence and wisdom are certainly compatible, however they are rarely seen in each other’s company.

If you haven’t committed to crossing the bridge don’t bother building it.

It is a gray day only because we have assumed the absence of color verses the masking of it.

Sometimes I am so desperately worn by life that I want nothing more than to hear a robin call out into the darkened chill of life’s morning. And I need that as its call assures me that the soothing warmth of spring is hot on winter’s chilled heels. And so