Robert H. Schuller Quotes
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I have had more honors than I've deserved and more rewards than I expected. It can be tempting just to say, 'Well, I'm going to retire.' But what would I do then? Sit in a chair and watch TV? Don't let fulfillment throw away your tomorrow.
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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.
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I have a reputation worldwide of being tolerant of all people and their views. I'm too well-educated to criticize a certain religion or group of people for what they believe in. It's called freedom.
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You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear.
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If you will make a deliberate decision to develop a positive attitude toward opportunities and obstacles, you are on your way toward having what is the most important quality in education: the power of positive thinking.
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I realized that every sermon I preached should be designed not to 'teach' or 'convert' people, but rather to encourage them, to give them a lift. I decided to adopt the spirit, style, strategy and substance of a 'therapist' in the pulpit.
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Jesus never called a human being a sinner.
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What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
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Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion.
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Pessimism drops the curtain on tomorrow.
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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.
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Never make your most important decisions when you are in your worst moods.
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Creative words generate energy; negative words drain out energy.
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Tough times never last, but tough people do.
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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
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You won't win if you don't begin.
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Turn your scars into stars by realising how lucky you are that things aren't worse.
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I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
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Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
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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!
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Tough times never last, but tough people do. You might add, "You're tougher than you give yourself credit for."
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Faith is making claims to victory before it is achieved.
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If only we could love ourselves enough to dare to approach God, what constructive dreams he would give us! What noble possibilities God wants to reveal to us - possibilities that would offer stimulation plus real security in service. But we feel too unworthy. So one layer of negative behavior is laid upon another until we emerge as rebellious sinners. But our rebellion is a reaction, not our nature. By nature we are fearful, not bad.
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Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.