Robert Schuller Quotes

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

I always say to people when I'm trying to get something going, bringing on other producers or other directors, "You can think of 95 reasons why not to make a movie. You've got to address why you want to make the movie and get it done. Just do it." I tend to live by that rule.

If you want to do things – to change things – you must run the risk of not succeeding.

For my hustlers, here's some motivation: He who has begun is half done.

Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.

There is no excuse for not trying.

It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit.

Those who say, 'It can't be done,' are usually interrupted by others doing it.

You have to lift your head up out of the mud and just do it.

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great.

We in the U.A.E. have no such word as 'impossible'; it does not exist in our lexicon. Such a word is used by the lazy and the weak, who fear challenges and progress.

If you want to bring change to any field, beat away at a problem until you solve it.

If all you can do is crawl, start crawling.

There are no failures, only quitters.

Nothing's hopeless except never trying.

Always continue to climb.

The secret of making progress is to get started.

If you sit by the wayside waiting for Success, your knees will be too stiff to follow her when she passes.

"Where there is a will there is a way" is an old true saying. He who resolves upon doing a thing, by that very resolution often scales the barriers to it and secures its achievement. To think we are able is almost to be so - to determine upon attainment is frequently attainment itself.

No one ever accomplished anything great sitting down.

Small steps can help people make big changes to achieve what they really desire. That wish isn't going to go anywhere unless you do something about it. Every day, just do one thing. At the end of six months, you'll be somewhere.

The difference between successes and failures in life is simply that winners take the first step.

Think of life and the world as a wall and that we're all climbing up the wall. So just put one hand in front of the other, keep your eye on the prize, and then get there. And then turn around and help the other people - because you're already there, so start helping.