Robert H. Schuller's Quotes

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

Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

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

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

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

Life is but a moment, death also is but another.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Today's accomplishments were yesterday's impossibilities.

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.

We all know that a church is not a building.

What would you do if you knew you could not fail?

Winning starts with beginning.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

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.

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

When you can't solve the problem, manage it.

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

A mission is a place where you ask nonbelievers to come and find faith and hope and feel love.

God flourished my ministry and my career of creative thinking, communicating and writing back 50 years.

How we express ourselves in worship remains up in the air.

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

The real minister's name that we honor is Jesus, not Schuller.

The Roman Catholic Church isn't going to change its theologies.

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.

My family and I would never receive royalties on the revenue that my materials brought into the church; materials that were created on our own personal time.

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.