Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
Quotes to Explore
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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Failure is simply the non-presence of success. But a fiasco is a disaster of mythic proportions.
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Success must never be measured by how much money you have.
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For success of any mission, it is necessary to have creative leadership. Creative leadership is vital for government, non-governmental organisations as well as for industries.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
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As a child I really didn't like men at all, in fact.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Focus on being balanced - success is balance.
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No one has a corner on success. It is his who pays the price.
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The hardest times to choose love are the very times when you can most grow spiritually. In fact, they are the only times you can grow spiritually!
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The Asian brand, which I admire for having become a global success, is Samsung. In comparison, we're just starting, but I believe that we at Uniqlo will be the next Asian brand to do well globally.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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You know you've reached true success the day you become truly humble. That's the day you stop needing to prove to the world - and yourself - that you've accomplished something meaningful.
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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents.
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The fact that the movement was carried on by women who, for the most part, had no money of their own and were totally inexperienced in organization, and that they won their fight in about two generations, makes a story often dramatic and always worth preserving.
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My whole career - I have been really lucky.
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I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.
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I'm not an economist and we all know economists were created to make weather forecasters look good.
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When we got down from the ambulances there were sharp cracks about us as bursts of shrapnel splashed down upon the Town Hall square. Dead soldiers lay outside and I glanced at them coldly. We were in search of the living.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
