Erwin Raphael McManus Quotes

“Average is always a safe choice, and it is the most dangerous choice you can make.”

“I made a decision that while cancer may define how I die, it would not define how I live.”

“If failure is our inevitable future, then let’s fail boldly and fail forward.”

“It's odd how we prioritize the things that matter to us. We choose a career or job; we choose a city or place to live. We make so many things important to us, but in all the things we factor in as we craft our futures, we make the people in our lives a commodity of, at best, secondary importance. We would take a job and give up our people rather than choose a tribe and give up the job.”

“Life is a series of challenges, adventures, and yes, even battles. There will always be giants to subdue and dragons to slay. I have already decided to die with my sword in hand. There is more courage in us than danger ahead of us. You are strong enough for the battles ahead.”

“Success will lie to you and tell you that your future is just an extension of your past, when at its best, success is simply preparation for new challenges.”

“The tragedy of a life that is never fully lived is not simply the loss of that one life. The tragedy is the endless number of lives that would have been forever changed if we had chosen to live differently.”

“We can become so afraid of death that we never live, so afraid of failure that we never risk, so afraid of pain that we never discover how strong we really are.”