We can't stay here." When I am faced with the choice of doing nothing or doing something, I will always choose to act.

A committed heart does not wait for conditions to be exactly right. Why? Because conditions are never exactly right. Indecision limits the Almighty and His ability to perform miracles in your life. He has put the vision in you—proceed! To wait, to wonder, to doubt, to be indecisive is to disobey God.

It is never the duty of a leader to struggle for someone else; a leader must encourage others to struggle and assure them that the struggles are worthwhile. Do battle with the challenges of your present, and you will unlock the prizes of your future.

When confronted with a challenge, the committed heart will search for a solution. The undecided heart searches for an escape.

In times of adversity, you don't have a problem to deal with; you have a choice to make.

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

If the source were simply a few behavioral habits, you would have conquered them already.

One of our pastors, John Hambrick, has a saying that we've adopted organization-wide. He says, "We walk toward the messes." In other words, we don't feel compelled to sort everything or everyone out ahead of time. We are not going to spend countless hours creating policies for every eventuality.

Initially, your vision will exceed your competency.

Leaders are not always the first to see an opportunity. They are simply the first to seize an opportunity. It is the person who seizes the opportunity who emerges as the leader. But fear has kept many would-be leaders on the sidelines, while good opportunities paraded by. They didn't lack insight. They lacked courage.

Wherever there is fear, there is opportunity. Wherever there is great fear, there is great opportunity.

Doing it anyway" is really the only way to ensure that fear doesn't rob you of an opportunity. "Doing it anyway" is the essence of courage. Courage is the willingness to move in a direction in spite of the emotions and thoughts that bid you to do otherwise.