Robert H. Schuller Quotes

Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

Never cut a tree down in the wintertime. Never make a negative decision in the low time. Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

Problems are guidelines, not stop signs!

The secret of success is to find a need and fill it, to find a hurt and heal it, to find somebody with a problem and offer to help solve it.

Faith is reacting positively to a negative situation.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

When faced with a mountain, I WILL NOT QUIT! I will keep on striving until I climb over, find a pass through, tunnel underneath, or simply stay and turn the mountain into a gold mine with God's help!

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

The good news is that the bad news can be turned into good news when you change your attitude.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.

Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.

Every achiever that I have ever met says, 'My life turned around when I began to believe in me'.

The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.

You didn't think that when you got up this morning that this would be the day your life would change did you? But it's going to happen because the only thing that stands between you and grand success are getting started and not stopping.

It's unfulfilled dreams that keep you alive.

Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

In difficult times, people too often lose the ability to face the future optimistically. They begin to think about their tomorrow's negatively. They forget that the tough times will pass. They concentrate on the problems of today rather than on the opportunities of tomorrow. In so doing, they not only lose the potential of today, they also throw away the beauty of tomorrow.

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Todays impossibilities are tomorrows miracles.

Never sell tomorrow short. There's plenty to get excited about. Be filled with expectation, hope and confidence. Believe something good is going to happen - and it usually will.

Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry.

High achievers spot rich opportunities swiftly, make big decisions quickly and move into action immediately. Follow these principles and you can make your dreams come true.

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution.

I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved!

You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.

Since it doesn't cost a dime to dream, you'll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination.

The only thing that stands between you and grand success in living are these two things: getting started and never quitting!

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

When the sun is shining I can do anything; no mountain is too high, no trouble too difficult to overcome. Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment. What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision for today.

Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

Inch by inch, it's a cinch.

Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

When you are in your worst moods. Wait. Be patient. The storm will pass. The spring will come

Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.

The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness. ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability.

What do I mean by sin? Answer: Any human condition or act that robs God of glory by stripping one of His children of their right to divine dignity. ... I can offer still another answer: 'Sin is any act or thought that robs myself or another human being of his or her self-esteem'.

Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities

I was called to start a mission, not a church. There is a difference.

Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.

Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.

We are born to soar. We are children of God. ... The Fatherhood of God offers a deep spiritual cure for the inferiority complex and lays the firm foundation for a solid spiritual self-esteem.

Lord, make my life A window for Your light To shine through And a mirror to reflect Your love To all I meet. Amen.

As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others.