Robert Schuller Quotes

There are seldom, if ever, any hopeless situations, but there are many people who lose hope in the face of some situations.

When things are difficult, smile by faith. Don't wait until you feel better.

Although sometimes I know it seems impossible, there ain't no need in drowning in your sorrow. If things are as bad as they can be, you can be sure there'll be a brighter tomorrow.

I think even if you haven't been divorced, you can hopefully relate to having to navigate through a really difficult time and see how you can get through to the other side and how you can stay positive, even if there's some really bad stuff happening.

When I wake up in the morning, I don't say, 'Oh, I have cancer. I say 'Another day. How you feeling? Good? Good.'

I just want to say real quick, whatever kind of problems you've been going through, maybe you're having a hard time at work, maybe you're having a hard time with your family, whatever it might be, you can overcome that. You just have to keep your hope up.

Out there things can happen, and frequently do, To people as brainy and footsy as you. And when things start to happen, don't worry, don't stew. Just go right along, you'll start happening too!

There are no hopeless situations, sweetheart, only people who have grown hopeless about them. You still have choices you can make.

My optimism and confidence come not from feeling I'm luckier than other mortals, and they sure don't come from visualizing victory. They're the result of a lifetime spent visualizing defeat and figuring out how to prevent it. Like most astronauts, I'm pretty sure that I can deal with what life throws at me because I've thought about what to do if things go wrong, as well as right. That's the power of negative thinking.

Every day is different, and some days are better than others, but no matter how challenging the day, I get up and live it.

I'm not sure what the future holds but I do know that I'm going to be positive.

No matter what happens or how difficult things become, you will eventually feel better.

We are all a little bit stronger than we think we are.

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long in disappointment and bitterness at the closed door that we do not expectantly look for and therefore see with pleasure and gratitude the one which has been opened for us.

When I think of my past, I try to dwell on the good times, the happy moments, and not to be haunted by the bad. . . To me the gift of life is contained in the command, whatever happens: "Don't let it get you. Just keep on going." Thus, I try to think of the good that I have already experienced and what will still be coming.

I've've seen some people like this that no matter what happens they've got something cheerful to feel about it. It's not always easy, but if we do it as a deliberate sward of battle rather then thinking 'Well, I'm not really feeling that way and therefore I shouldn't say that I am'. No! Make yourself that way!

Being negative only makes a difficult journey more difficult. You may be given a cactus, but you don't have to sit on it.

Depression is when you think there's nothing to be done. Fortunately I always think there's something to be done.

Hope, perhaps the most dangerous of all emotions and perhaps the most necessary.

If you do the best you can, no matter how bad the situation, you probably are going to come out okay.

It is much more sensible to be an optimist instead of a pessimist, for if one is doomed to disappointment, why experience it in advance?

And remember: you must never, under any circumstances, despair. To hope and to act, these are our duties in misfortune.

Be positive about the future. The road ahead will be worth it!

'When you have a lemon, make a lemonade.' That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says, 'I 'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance.' Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of self-pity .

Stay positive, even if you're fighting for your life.