If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

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

Robert H. Schuller

Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.

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Winning starts with beginning.

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

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Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.

Robert H. Schuller

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.

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Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost.

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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.

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

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Today’s accomplishments were yesterday’s impossibilities.

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

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

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

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If there exists no possibility of failure, then victory is meaningless.

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

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Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

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God’s delays are not God’s denials.

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

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

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

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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.

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Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don’t know how to quit.

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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.

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Again and again, the impossible problem is solved when we see that the problem is only a tough decision waiting to be made.

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

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Tough times never last, but tough people do.

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It takes guts to get out of the ruts.

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

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Goals are not only absolutely necessary to motivate us. They are essential to really keep us alive.

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

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If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

Robert H. Schuller

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

Robert H. Schuller

It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts.

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

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Failure doesn’t mean you are a failure it just means you haven’t succeeded yet.

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Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly.

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It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

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

Robert H. Schuller

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

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Turn your scars into stars.

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