"Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation." ― Robert H. Schuller Topic(s): Wisdom More From Robert H. Schuller "I’d rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed." "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." "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." More In Wisdom "The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness."― Jean Cocteau "Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two."― Octavio Paz "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."― Ralph Waldo Emerson