Great Throughts Treasury

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

"Most people who succeed in the face of seemingly impossible conditions are people who simply don’t know how to quit. When unexpected damage wreaks havoc with your dreams, then what? Never dwell on what you have lost. If you do, you will be discouraged and defeated. Look not at what you have lost but at what you have left."

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

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

"As we grow as unique persons, we learn to respect the uniqueness of others."

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

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

"A great drive, a powerful determination and a consuming desire will easily compensate for a little or limited talent."

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

"Are you disappointed, discouraged and discontented with your present level of success? Are you secretly dissatisfied with your present status? Do you want to become a better and more beautiful person than you are today? Would you like to be able to really learn how to be proud of yourself and still not lose genuine humility? Then start dreaming! It?s possible! You can become the person you have always wanted to be!"

"Commit yourself to a dream... Nobody who tries to do something great but fails is a total failure. Why? Because he can always rest assured that he succeeded in life's most important battle ? he defeated the fear of trying."

"Courage is spelled I-N-T-E-G-R-I-T-Y."

"Build a dream and the dream will build you."

"Better to do something imperfectly than to do nothing perfectly."

"Don't violate the law, but don't reject an idea because it's illegal. You might be able to get the law changed."

"Every burden is a blessing."

"Doomed are the hotheads! Unhappy are they who lose their cool and are too proud to say, I'm sorry."

"Every human being is born without faith. Faith comes only through the process of making decisions to change before we can be sure it's the right move."

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

"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."

"For every mountain there is a miracle."

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

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

"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."

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

"God's delays are not God's denials."

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

"I tell people, 'I was born in a little house at the dead end of a dirt road that had no name and no number, and you can go anywhere from nowhere.'"

"I love my son and am proud of my son."

"I had rather attempt something great and fail, than to attempt nothing at all and succeed"

"I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer."

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

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

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

"Impossible situations can become possible miracles."

"Inch by inch, it's a cinch."

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

"If a blade of grass can grow in a concrete walk and a fig tree in the side of a mountain cliff, a human being empowered with an invincible faith can survive all odds the world can throw against his tortured soul."

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

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

"It takes guts to get out of the ruts."

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

"Let your imagination release your imprisoned possibilities."

"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."

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

"Negative thinking is subtle and deceptive. It wears many faces and hides behind the mask of excuses. It is important to strip away the mask and discover the real, root emotion."

"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."

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

"Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance."

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