Chase the Lion Quotes

“Your greatest legacy isn’t your dream. Your greatest legacy is the next generation of dreamers that your dream inspires—the dreams within a dream.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“The cure for the fear of failure isn’t success. The cure for the fear of failure is failure in small enough doses that we build up an immunity to it.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“We start dying the day we stop dreaming. And ironically, we start living the day we discover a dream worth dying for.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“Don’t give up on your dream. If you do, you aren’t just giving up on its present-tense reality. You’re giving up on its future-tense potential. Were”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“In every dream journey there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death. You have to go after a dream that is destined to fail without divine intervention.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“Too often the church complains about culture instead of creating it. The energy we spend on criticism is being stolen from creativity. It’s sideways energy. We need fewer commentators and more innovators.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“When everything is said and done, God isn’t going to say, “Well said,” “Well thought,” or “Well planned.” There is one measuring stick: “Well done, good and faithful servant!”5”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“Napoleon Bonaparte made a distinction between two kinds of courage—regular courage and two-o’clock-in-the-morning courage. “The rarest attribute among Generals,” said the Little Corporal, “is two o’clock-in-the-morning courage.”2 Chasing a lion into a pit on a snowy day takes two-o’clock-in-the-morning courage. But that one act of courage completely changed the trajectory of Benaiah’s life. The same is true of you. You are one idea, one risk, one decision away from a totally different life. Of course, it’ll probably be the toughest decision you ever make, the scariest risk you ever take. But if your dream doesn’t scare you, it’s too small.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“If you don’t have a dream, keep learning while you’re waiting. Get into God’s Word, and God’s dream will get into you.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“You are one idea, one risk, one decision away from a totally different life. Of course, it’ll probably be the toughest decision you ever make, the scariest risk you ever take. But if your dream doesn’t scare you, it’s too small.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“Without it, I’m coasting. With it, I’m gaining momentum”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“God doesn’t always call us to win. Sometimes He just calls us to try. Either way, it’s obedience that glorifies God.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“If you’re looking for an excuse, you’ll always find one. If you’re looking for an opportunity, you’ll always find one. Lion chasers have an eye for opportunity. There are amazing opportunities all around us all the time, but you have to see them to seize them. Then you need two-o’clock-in-the-morning courage to chase them.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“If you want to live an epic life, you have to overcome some epic challenges. You have to take some epic risks, make some epic sacrifices.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“You are one encounter away from your destiny. One off-the-cuff conversation, one crazy idea, or one glance across a crowded room can change everything.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“Exponential progression is compound doubling. Four times four equals sixteen.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“Even when you have a setback, God has already prepared your comeback. The God who works all things together for good will leverage every experience, every skill, every mistake, and every bit of knowledge you have acquired.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“When we fail to take action, we forfeit the future. And just as inaction is an action, indecision is a decision. As Edmund Burke famously said, “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“Before going wherever God wants to take you next, is there some place you need to go back to? Sometimes the way forward is backward. “The farther backward you can look,” said Winston Churchill, “the farther forward you can see.”3”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“Your dream is more than a dream. It’s a calling. Sure, someone hired you and someone can fire you. But they didn’t call you. God did. And if you forget that fact, you forget why you do what you do and Who you do it for.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“At the end of our lives, our greatest regrets will be the God-ordained opportunities we left on the table, the God-given passions we didn't pursue, and the God-sized dreams we didn't go after because we let fear dictate our decisions.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“The story God is writing through your life is someone else’s subplot. It was true for David’s mighty men. It’s true for me. And it’s true for you.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“If you take thirty linear steps, you’re ninety feet from where you started. But if you take thirty exponential steps, you’ve circled the earth twenty-six times!2 Faith isn’t linear. Faith is exponential.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“coined and collected over the years. Faith is climbing out on a limb, cutting it off, and watching the tree fall down. If doubt is putting your circumstances between you and God, faith is putting God between you and your circumstances. Faith is unlearning your fears until all that’s left is the fear of God. Faith is the willingness to look foolish. And I’ve already mentioned it, but it’s worth repeating: faith is taking the first step before God reveals the second step.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“If you’re looking for an excuse, you’ll always find one. If you’re looking for an opportunity, you’ll always find one.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“It’s not science fiction; it’s fact. It’s not a script; it’s Scripture. It’s not an accident; it’s a divine appointment. Can I make a simple observation? Notice who’s next to you! What you think is a seat assignment might be a divine assignment. The person two inches away may change your destiny, or you might change theirs!”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“inspire”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“God is in the business of strategically positioning us in the right place at the right time. Of course, it often seems like the wrong place at the wrong time. But like a grand master who strategically positions his pawns, bishops, kings, and queens, God is setting you up.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small

“If you don’t have a dream, get around people who do. You might just catch what they have.”
― Mark Batterson, Chase the Lion: If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It's Too Small