Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
Tough times never last, but tough people do.
I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.
Winning starts with beginning.
It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.
Anyone can count the seeds in an apple, but only God can count the number of apples in a seed.
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.
Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.
Failure doesn't mean you are a failure it just means you haven't succeeded yet.
Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?
If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.
What would you do if you knew you could not fail?
Anybody who succeeds is helping people. The secret to success is find a need and fill it; find a hurt and heal it; find a problem and solve it.
The only place where your dream becomes impossible is in your own thinking.
God's delays are not God's denials.
Turn your scars into stars.
Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.
Never underestimate your problem or your ability to deal with it.
Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.
If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.
The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.
Never bring the problem solving stage into the decision making stage. Otherwise, you surrender yourself to the problem rather than the solution.
Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.
It takes guts to get out of the ruts.
Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don't know how to quit.
Life is but a moment, death also is but another.
What appears to be the end of the road may simply be a bend in the road.
I built my church on Easter services, Christmas Eve services, and Norman Vincent Peale.
Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.
You never suffer from a money problem, you always suffer from an idea problem.
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.
When you can't solve the problem, manage it.
I'm very proud of all my children. They all have Christian families; they read the Bible; they pray; the kids go to Sunday school; they know the Ten Commandments by heart. That's my greatest honor, and I couldn't do anything to glorify God that could surpass that. That's very meaningful.
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.
I believe that Christians believe in salvation by grace through faith in Jesus Christ, not by works. And we believe that if you're saved, Jesus becomes your savior. He makes a promise to you. You can trust his promises. You can bank on that word.
Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder.
I was never close to Jerry Falwell because he had his ministry, I had mine. And we came from different theological training and from a different psychological education.
Our greatest lack is not money for any undertaking, but rather ideas, If the ideas are good, cash will somehow flow to where it is needed.
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.
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.
I love my son and am proud of my son.
The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
Press on. Obstacles are seldom the same size tomorrow as they are today.
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.
I think a good pastor is somebody who is honest and humble and has a really caring heart.
You can often measure a person by the size of his dream.
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.
How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.
