Robert H Goddard Quotes

The reason many people fail is not for lack of vision but for lack of resolve and resolve is born out of counting the cost. ~ Robert H. Goddard

It is not a simple matter to differentiate unsuccessful from successful experiments ... [Most] work that is finally successful is the result of a series of unsuccessful tests in which difficulties are gradually eliminated. ~ Robert H. Goddard

The only barrier to human development is ignorance, and this is not insurmountable. ~ Robert H. Goddard

Goddard was not personally religious; his most immediate and consistent motivation was a desire for recognition as the founding genius of rocket science. ~ Kendrick Oliver

How many more years I shall be able to work on the problem I do not know; I hope, as long as I live. There can be no thought of finishing, for 'aiming at the stars' both literally and figuratively, is a problem to occupy generations, so that no matter how much progress one makes, there is always the thrill of just beginning. ~ Robert H. Goddard

Every vision is a joke until the first man accomplishes it; once realized, it becomes commonplace. ~ Robert H. Goddard

Set goals, challenge yourself, and achieve them. Live a healthy life ... and make every moment count. Rise above the obstacles, and focus on the positive. ~ Robert H. Goddard

All you have to do is revise your point of view. Instead of trying to achieve perfection, simply relax and enjoy human imperfectability. With that perspective you achieve the ultimate godhead. You see man as infinite possibility always in the process of becoming. You see finally that man, in emulating the creative process, is nothing less than God. ~ Robert H. Rimmer

The Tax Court is independent, and its neutrality is not clouded by prosecuting duties. Its procedures assure fair hearings. Its deliberations are evidenced by careful opinions. All guides to judgment available to judges are habitually consulted and respected. It has established a tradition of freedom from bias and pressures. It deals with a subject that is highly specialized and so complex as to be the despair of judges. It is relatively better staffed for its task than is the judiciary. ~ Robert H. Jackson

What would you attempt to do if you knew you could not fail? ~ Robert H. Schuller

I do not know whether it is the view of the Court that a judge must be thick-skinned or just thick-headed, but nothing in my experience or observation confirms the idea that he is insensitive to publicity. Who does not prefer good to ill report of his work? And if fame a good public name is, as Milton said, the "last infirmity of noble mind", it is frequently the first infirmity of a mediocre one. ~ Robert H. Jackson

There are two views of interpreting the Bible in America: that every word is literally the truth without qualification, and then the other view is, it's called plenary inspiration, which holds that all religious truth taught in the Bible is true from God, but each word is not necessarily interpreted literally. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Your job today tells me nothing of your future
your use of your leisure today tells me just what your tomorrow will be. ~ Robert H. Jackson

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

The very word possibility creates a mental climate conducive to creativity. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Possibility-thinking is the long sought-after fountain of youth. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Perhaps you have heard about the college executives who were discussing what they wanted to do after retirement age. One hoped to run a prison or school of correction so that the alumni would never come back to visit. Another chose to manage an orphan asylum so that he would not be plagued with advice from parents. ~ Robert H. Jackson

There arose a riot among the Jews and Scribes and Pharisees, saying that the whole people was in danger of looking for Jesus as the Christ. So they assembled, and said to James, 'We beseech you to restrain the people, who are going astray after Jesus as though he were the Christ. ~ Robert H. Eisenman

Any court which undertakes by its legal processes to enforce civil liberties needs the support of an enlightened and vigorous public opinion which will be intelligent and discriminating as to what cases really are civil liberties cases and what questions really are involved in those cases. ~ Robert H. Jackson

You know how many seeds are in an apple. But you don't know how many apples are in a seed. ~ Robert H. Schuller

If a factory is torn down but the rationality which produced it is left standing, then that rationality will simply produce another factory. If a revolution destroys a government, but the systematic patterns of thought that produced that government are left intact, then those patterns will repeat themselves ... There's so much talk about the system. And so little understanding. - ROBERT PIRSIG, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance ~ Donella H. Meadows

Classical theology has erred in its insistence that theology be 'God-centered,' not 'man-centered'. ~ Robert H. Schuller

The subconscious is ahead of the conscious, and we never know what really drives us. ~ Robert H. Schuller

The ultimate weapon isn't this plague out in Vegas, or any new super H-bomb. The ultimate weapon has always existed. Every man, every woman, and every child owns it. It's the ability to say No and take the consequences. ~ Robert Anton Wilson

The emerging church, reformed according to the needs of self-esteem-starved-souls under the Lordship of Christ ... will help us to affirm the concept that 'While god's ideas may seem humanly impossible, he will give us these ideas which will lead to glorious, self-esteem-generating success. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Due process requires some definite link, some minimum connection, between a state and the person, property or transaction it seeks to tax. ~ Robert H. Jackson

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. ~ Robert H. Schuller

I see the invisible. I believe the incredible. I attempt the impossible. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Th communique repeated the information. "He went to the body of his wife and wouldn't leave it, although she was dead."
How strange. why didn't he run and save his own hide? What made him go back? is it possible that he loved her? Is it possible that he wanted to hold her in his arms one last time? Is it possible that he needed to cry and grieve? Is it possible that he felt the stupidity of war? Is it possible that he felt the injustice of fate? Is it possible that he thought of children, born or unborn? Is it possible that he didn't care what become of him now?
It's possible. We don't know. Or at least we don't know for certain. But we can guess. His actions answer.
And so h sits alone in a prison. Not a "Russian" or a "Communist" or "solider" or "enemy" or any of these categories. Just-a-man who cared for just-a-woman for just-a-time more than anything else.
Here's to you, Nicolai Pestretsov, wherever you may go and be, for giving powerful meaning to the promises that are the same everywhere; for dignifying that covenant that is the same in any language - "for better or for worse, in good times and bad, in sickness and in health, to love and honor and cherish unto death, so help me God." You kept the faith; kept it bright - kept it shining. Bless you! ~ Robert Fulghum

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. ~ Robert H. Schuller

The core of original sin, then is LOT - Lack of Trust. Or, it could be considered an innate inability to adequately value ourselves. Label it a 'negative self-image,' but do not say that the central core of the human soul is wickedness ... positive Christianity does not hold to human depravity, but to human inability. ~ Robert H. Schuller

We are the boys who go to a particular place, at H-hour, occupy a designated terrain, stand on it, dig the enemy out of their holes, force them then and there to surrender or die. We're the bloody infantry. ~ Robert A. Heinlein

Some people are at the top of the ladder, some are in the middle, still more are at the bottom, and a whole lot more don't even know there is a ladder. ~ Robert H. Schuller

If you are creative enough to imagine a problem, you're clever enough to discover a solution. ~ Robert H. Schuller

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

I love my son and am proud of my son. ~ Robert H. Schuller

I feel that heterosexual marriage is the more excellent way, and it surely is approved holy by the Holy Bible, and it holds so many more possibilities: the possibilities of having children of both the mother and father, the male and the female. ~ Robert H. Schuller

As a child, I was always interested in building things. Instead of buying candy, I would purchase nails, which I used to construct things out of scrap wood. My mother always claimed that my spending my money on nails instead of on candy was why I was so skinny as a kid. ~ Robert H. Grubbs

I want to build friendships. I want to come across as being a good illustration of what Jesus is like. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Daring to dream means daring to live. ~ Robert H. Schuller

You can think negatively or positively. If you are a positive thinker, you will base your decisions on faith rather than fear. ~ Robert H. Schuller

I have said to people I have six children, one son, four daughters, and a church. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope. ~ Robert H. Schuller

Tough times never last. Tough people do ~ Robert H. Schuller

I will! I am! I can! I will actualize my dream. I will press ahead. I will settle down and see it through. I will solve the problems. I will pay the price. I will never walk away from my dream until I see my dream walk away: Alert! Alive! Achieved! ~ Robert H. Schuller

My words are not that powerful. I started saying in 1985 I don't think we should have a music talking about ni**ers and b*tches and h*es. It had no impact. I've said it. I've repeated it. I still repeat it. To me, that's more damaging than a statue of Robert E. Lee. ~ Wynton Marsalis

The privilege of opening the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world imposes a grave responsibility. The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have been so calculated, so malignant and so devastating, that civilization cannot tolerate their being ignored because it cannot survive their being repeated. That four great nations, flushed with victory and stung with injury stay the hand of vengeance and voluntarily submit their captive enemies to the judgment of the law is one of the most significant tributes that Power ever has paid to Reason. ~ Robert H. Jackson

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

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.' ~ Robert H. Schuller