Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.
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Don't worry so much about your self-esteem. Worry more about your character. Integrity is its own reward.
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I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.
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I am a worrier. I worry about the state of our country, of the world, of our species. Every day seems to deliver a new nail to hammer into our collective coffin.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
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I don't want to worry about maintaining an air of decorum that's not natural to me.
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When the mind has once formed the habit of holding cheerful, happy, prosperous pictures, it will not be easy to form the opposite habit.
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Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.
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You must acquire the habits and skills of managing a small amount of money before you can have a large amount. Remember, we are creatures of habit and, therefore, the habit of managing your money is more important than the amount.
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What helps luck is a habit of watching for opportunities, of having a patient but restless mind, of sacrificing one's ease or vanity, or uniting a love of detail to foresight, and of passing through hard times bravely and cheerfully.
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There is freedom in forgiveness, and it's not that hard to do once you get into the habit.
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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Every time I do something, I worry it's my last job.
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The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.
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Clothes are a kind of uniform. A nun's habit, a surgeon's scrubs, a cop's uniform. People often say that when they put on a certain uniform, they actually think of themselves differently.
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With female-oriented movies, unless it's something like 'Bridesmaids' or a romantic comedy, you've got to really worry about your opening weekend. And I'm always telling stories about women, not younger women, and it's just a much tougher audience to get to the movie theater.
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I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really was hand to mouth at one point. It was literally as poor as you can get in Britain without being homeless at one point. If you've ever been there you will never, ever take for granted that you don't need to worry. Never.
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I think the average citizen is going to see no less than a $1,500 or more increase in what it's going to cost for basic living next year,... Taking sales tax off food isn't going to take care of all of that, but I think it's a way that we can help.
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How do leaders serve their people? They may pay good wages and treat employees with respect.
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My hero Socrates trained Plato on a rock. How much did that cost? So the greatest minds in history became the greatest minds in history without spending a lot of money.
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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
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Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
