Robert H. Schuller

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.

Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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

Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest.

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?

What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.

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

When an opportunity comes, it holds possibilities. And when you move away from it or don't sense it or grasp it, you're really throwing away your future; you're throwing away your tomorrow.

Goals must never be from your ego, but problems that cry for a solution.

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

Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."

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.

Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.

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

Anytime you get an idea, you need people to help you put it together. That is the beginning of an institution. When you create an institution, levels of authority and boundaries need to be established. If everybody owns it, nobody owns it. If everybody is responsible for it, nobody will be responsible.

You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.

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

I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'

To be born again means that we must be changed from a negative to a positive self-image - from inferiority to self-esteem, from fear to love, from doubt to trust.

Commit yourself to a dream. Nobody who tries to do something great, but fails, is a total failure. Why? Because he can always be assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle; he defeated the battle of not trying.

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