Robert H. Schuller Quotes

Possibility-thinking is the long sought-after fountain of youth.

Robert H. Schuller

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• This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.

  

  Bassem Youssef
  • World
  • Work
  • Control

• I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.

  

  Kaskade
  • Life
  • Chicago
  • Decisions

• We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Today
  • Tomorrow
  • Youth

• I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Work
  • Control
  • Singing

• An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Author
  • Generation
  • Youth

• To be black in the Baltimore of my youth was to be naked before the elements of the world.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Black
  • Youth

• The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Trying
  • American
  • Happiness

• After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• Smiling always with a never fading serenity of countenance, and flourishing in an immortal youth.

  

  Isaac Barrow
  • Youth
  • Serenity
  • Smiling

• Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Today
  • Energy
  • Youth

• Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator – he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Father
  • Film
  • Youth

• The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Same
  • Youth

• The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age.

  

  Isaac D'Israeli
  • Age
  • Reading
  • Youth

• I'm very shocked when I look at television and I see such an aggressive youth and image obsession in the representation of women on our screens.

  

  Samantha Bond
  • Women
  • Television
  • Youth

• It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, 'If I don't succeed, I'll go back to school and study.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • School
  • Confidence
  • Study

• Study is the bane of childhood, the oil of youth, the indulgence of adulthood, and a restorative in old age.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Age
  • Study
  • Childhood

• The early expression of my youth was filled with all the aspects of art.

  

  Felix de Weldon
  • Art
  • Expression
  • Youth

• The hardest of all is learning to be a well of affection, and not a fountain; to show them we love them not when we feel like it, but when they do.

  

  Nan Fairbrother
  • Love
  • Feel
  • For Her

• The ideal of an all-sided education for youth had always been close to my heart. I saw clearly the arid results of ordinary instruction, aimed only at the development of body and intellect.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Heart
  • Education
  • Youth

• Embracing a philosophy which appears to lack appropriate concern for a great mass of Americans – our young people... regardless of how I, or any American, might feel individually, we have an obligation as leaders to communicate with our youth and listen to their ideas and problems.

  

  Wally Hickel
  • Listen
  • Youth
  • Leaders

• Day was breaking at Plashwater Weir Mill Lock. Stars were yet visible, but there was dull light in the east that was not the light of night. The moon had gone down, and a mist crept along the banks of the river, seen through which the trees were the ghosts of trees, and the water was the ghost of water. This earth looked spectral, and so did the pale stars: while the cold eastern glare, expressionless as to heat or colour, with the eye of the firmament quenched, might have been likened to the stare of the dead.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Stars
  • Ghosts
  • Light Of Night

• If you start the day not really expecting substantial change, but anticipating some small new revelation or some small alteration, then over time you're able to find them in more places.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Time
  • Small
  • Able

• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• Possibility-thinking is the long sought-after fountain of youth.

  

  Robert H. Schuller
  • Youth
  • Fountain
  • Possibility-thinking