Robert Schuller

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

Topic: Leadership, Possibility, Self
Location: Lake Mead, Redstone
Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin

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Since it doesn’t cost a dime to dream, you’ll never shortchange yourself when you stretch your imagination. — Robert Schuller

Preparation

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

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Fear Listening Success

Respect

The world of tomorrow belongs to the person who has the vision today. — Robert Schuller

Goals Leadership Vision

Irrevocable commitments that offer loopholes, not bail-out provisions, and no parachute clauses will extract incredible productivity and performance.

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Commitment

Attitude Decision Optimism Pessimism Time

It is an ecological, theological, and biological reality: The more we are in tune with eternal nature, the more we will be able to hear the still small voice within and have explosions of inspirational insight.

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Perception

Action Dreams Possibility

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After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. — Aldous Huxley

Communication

Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment. — Martin Luther King Jr.

Adversity Hope

Your fear does not cancel my courage. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Commitment Courage Decision Fear Society

Example is the most convincing truth. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Example Truth

The great end of life is not knowledge but action. — Thomas H. Huxley

Action Knowledge

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous. — Frederick Douglass

Honesty Justice Truth Virtue

When you are losing, wear a winning face. — French Proverb

Attitude Communication

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside you. — Deepak Chopra

Peace Self

Doubts are more cruel than the worst of truths. — Moliere

Thinking Truth

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Leadership

To think is easy. To act is difficult. To act as one thinks is the most difficult of all. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Action Integrity Leadership Thinking

I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. — Abraham Lincoln

Character Leadership Purpose

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

› Marcus Aurelius

Conflict Leadership

Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place. — Rumi

Leadership

The most effective way to do it, is to do it. — Amelia Earhart

Action Leadership Work

What is left when honor is lost? — Publilius Syrus

Character Honor Leadership

The power of a leader resides in the follower. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Character Freedom Leadership Persuasion Self-esteem Society

You reach your real height when you stand up for what you believe. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Belief Leadership

Let each man pass his days in that wherein his skill is greatest. — Sextus Propertius

Commitment Leadership Practice Service Strength

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. — Audrey Hepburn

Leadership Self Self-esteem

To be great is to be misunderstood. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership

False leaders use fear to gain power. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Fear Leadership Power

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. — Abraham Lincoln

Freedom Leadership Liberty

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare. — Mark Twain

Courage Leadership

If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important, and you do that by being genuine and humble.

› Nelson Mandela

Cooperation Leadership

It is time for a new general of leadership, to cope with the new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won. — John F. Kennedy

Leadership Opportunity Time

The majority never think beyond what they are told. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Leadership Society Thinking Truth

The absent are never without fail. Nor the present without excuse. — Benjamin Franklin

Accountability Leadership

There's more to life than being a passenger. — Amelia Earhart

Leadership Life Self-esteem

The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader. — Albert Einstein

Freedom Leadership Persuasion

The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example. — Thomas Morell

Example Leadership

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. — Thomas Jefferson

Character Honor Leadership Principle

He that will have the kernel, must crack the shell. — Dutch Proverb

Action Leadership Work

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast. — Lewis Carroll

Imagination Possibility

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible. Then they seem improbable. And then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

› Nelson Mandela

Determination Dreams Possibility

My bounty is boundless as the sea, My love as deep; the more I give thee, The more I have, for both are infinite. — William Shakespeare

Kindness Leadership Life Possibility

Imagining what you want as if it already exists opens the door to letting it happen. — Shakti Gawain

Goals Imagination Possibility Purpose

If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves. — Thomas Edison

Goals Possibility

You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.

› Harriet Martineau

Planning Possibility Preparation Time

If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others? — Voltaire

Possibility

Motivation Possibility Self

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go. — T. S. Eliot

Possibility Risk Travel

Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting. — Napoleon Hill

Persistence Possibility Victory

Believe and act as if it were impossible to fail. — Charles Kettering

Action Belief Failure Possibility

Man can learn nothing unless he proceeds from the known to the unknown.

› Claude Bernard

Awareness Discovery Perception Possibility

Growth requires us to stretch beyond what we thought to be impossible. — Jeffrey Benjamin

Breakthrough Possibility

The only limit is our limit of our capacity to receive. — Emmet Fox

Acceptance Possibility Power Self

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

› Michael Phelps

Courage Goals Mistakes Obstacles Possibility Work

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. — Thomas Jefferson

Belief Luck Possibility Work

I am what time, circumstance, history, have made of me, certainly, but I am also, much more than that. So are we all. — James Baldwin

Possibility

If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities. — Maya Angelou

Luck Possibility Solitude

Possibility

Free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or good or joy worth having.

› C. S. Lewis

Choice Freedom Possibility Purpose

The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.

› Ralph Waldo Emerson

Leadership Possibility

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities. — Aristotle

Possibility

Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. — Rumi

Alone Possibility Power Self-esteem

No limits but the sky. — Miguel de Cervantes

Goals Possibility

Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it. — Maya Angelou

Action Self Success

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections. — St. Augustine

Awareness Perfection Self

It's lack of faith that makes most people afraid of meeting challenges, and I believed in myself. — Muhammad Ali

Belief Faith Self

When we cannot change a situation, resolution comes through the way we choose to handle it within ourselves. — Captain Gerald L. Coffee

Choice Decision Self

If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

› Mark Twain

Self Self-esteem

Peaces comes from within. Do not seek it without.

› Buddha

Peace Self

Laugh at yourself, not in ridicule but with objectivity and acceptance of self. — C. W. Metcalf

Acceptance Confidence Laughter Self

Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught. — Oscar Wilde

Experience Learning Self

While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. — Benjamin Franklin

Accountability Adversity Attitude Self Thinking

If you compromise your own conscience, you will weaken your conscience. Soon your conscience will fail to guide you and you never will have real wealth based on peace of mind.

› Napoleon Hill

Peace Self Self-esteem Truth Wealth

Peace Self