Craig D. Lounsbrough Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. A fool need not be the fool that he has chosen to be. But I would think him to be a fool if he chose to continue to be so.

2. Autumn had lulled the garden to sleep. And its stilled slumber rested in the fact that the garden possessed no concern regarding the demands of the spring ahead as it drew peace from the harvest born of the summer past.

3. Being told that we’re ‘stuck in the past’ is a product of those who confuse the need to learn from the past in order to enhance the future, from being stuck in the past in a way that inhibits the future. And those that actually inhibit the future are the people who can’t tell the difference between the two.

4. Choose your war well, for maybe the biggest coward of all is not the one that flees from the battle, but the one who chooses to fight the wrong one.

5. Consequences are the back-end of a choice that common sense warned us about on the front-end.

6. Don’t focus on what you haven’t done. Rather, focus on the fact that what you ‘haven’t done’ is often the best indicator of what you should be doing.

7. Don’t give up. For the greatest successes of all are those where the utter brutality of the battle has pressed us to give up, but we have refused to give in. For that itself is the success without which nothing is successful.

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

9. Every decision will build a bridge or a barrier. Therefore, what stands in front of you at this moment illustrates the decisions that you made on your way to this moment.

10. Failure is an option, not a fact.

11. Failure is the prerequisite to success, not the elimination of it.

12. Great failures are only ‘great’ if we refuse to see the seeds for our greatest successes liberally planted within them. For then, failure is success that simply needs some water.

13. Greed can take the whole of our intelligence and render it ‘stupid’ in a far, far shorter period of time than it took for our intelligence to become intelligent.

14. How many times have we set the stage for our greatest defeats? And how many times did victory elude us because we chose to deny that fact?

15. I am thankful that the lessons that I refused to learn refused not to be learned.

16. I don’t want to focus on the fact that you have fallen. Rather, I want to focus on the need for both of us to get up.

17. I find it curious that people are prone to ‘fight to the death’ for the very things that will ultimately ‘fight for their death.

18. I pray that I am never so foolishly naive or roguishly pompous to think that I can be the captain of my own ship, for if God is not at the helm my ship will soon be at the bottom. An Intimate Collision: Encounters with Life and Jesus

19. I talked to a farmer the other day; a man of soil and sweat and simplicity. And while he never darkened the door of a university, I quickly discovered that the wisdom wrought of soil and sweat and simplicity possessed more than adequate power to utterly transform any university whose door this man might walk through. And it was at that very moment that I found myself wanting to do nothing other than to dig in the soil of life that lay around me, sweat a lot while doing it, and forever keep my life as simple as both soil and sweat…for therein lays the greatest wisdom.

20. I would encourage you not to confuse a passing drizzle with a brainstorm. Because if you do, it won’t take a meteorologist to tell you what’s coming, and it’ll take more than an umbrella to protect you from it.

21. If I have all of the gear but I can’t bait the hook, the fish have nothing to worry about.

22. If the achieving of the goal was not enhanced by the effort to get there, you achieved something but it was not your goal.

23. If we believe that life is limited to what fits into the rubrics of our logic maybe we are afraid of what life is, when maybe we should fear what our assumption of it is.

24. If we don’t know what we’re running from or what we’re running to, maybe all of the running is our effort to avoid both.

25. If we stop to think about ‘how’ we’re thinking we will create less problems that we have to think about. And despite the fact that the opposite is equally true, it seems to be more than equally engaged in.

26. If you’re going to ‘run your mouth,’ at least don’t run it in circles.

27. If you’re not brave enough to address the real issues, then there’s a good chance that you’re not brave enough to keep your mouth shut about the issues that are not.

28. Insanity breeds insanity. And if there’s one place where we really need birth control, this would be it.

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

30. It is in our deepest nature to be on a journey in search of the truth. And we betray that nature when we choose to crawl off to some dark corner of our lives and sit hunched over some self-serving agenda tediously attempting to create a ‘truth’ that will justify that agenda.