Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

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• Getting emotional about things is a peacetime luxury. In wartime, it's much too painful.

  

  Edmund H. North
  • Emotional
  • Painful
  • Luxury

• I can say that I had a particularly painful teenage-hood.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Say
  • I Can
  • Painful

• That's painful always to lose.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Always
  • Lose
  • Painful

• Collaboration is no longer painful - or precious.

  

  Vince Clarke Erasure
  • Collaboration
  • Painful

• What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Memories
  • Painful
  • Slightly

• As painful as this thing has been I just can't be with no one else. See I know what we've got to do. You let go, and I'll let go too. 'Cause no one's hurt me more than you And no one ever will.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Hurt
  • Thing
  • Painful

• Have you ever sought God with your whole heart, or have you simply given Him a feeble cry after some emotionally painful experience?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Heart
  • Experience

• but sometimes optimism is the only drug that works. But it’s sadly temporary in its effects.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Drug
  • Works
  • Effects

• Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • Life
  • May
  • Action

• What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.

  

  Albert Bandura
  • People
  • Believe
  • Natural

• Rejections are painful, but inevitable. They're every writer's rite of passage.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Painful
  • Passage
  • Rite

• Option 1: Attempt to back out. Probable result: Death after painful torture. Option 2: Do the job and hope. Probable result: Death but probably no torture (good)

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Good
  • Job
  • Hope

• I was struggling. I couldn't really go to the basket as quick as I wanted to. When I did it was real painful.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Real
  • Painful
  • Struggling

• It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Soul
  • Effects
  • Diseases

• Alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities, may produce all the effects of drunkenness.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Alcohol
  • Effects
  • Sufficient

• Falling in love is painful on the knees.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Pain
  • Fall
  • Painful

• And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Man
  • Attractive
  • Neglect

• As long as there's not permanent damage to our energy infrastructure, the effects on the overall economy should be fairly modest.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Long
  • Energy
  • Effects

• Of course, a positive growth rate might be taken as evidence that a population is below its optimum.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Taken
  • Positive
  • Growth

• Poland reminds us that sometimes the smallest steps, however imperfect, can ultimately tear down walls, can ultimately transform the world.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World

• The Rockwell magazine cover was more a part of the American reality than a record of it.

  

  Arthur Danto
  • Reality
  • Record
  • Magazine

• Wayfarer, the only way is your footsteps, there is no other. Wayfarer, there is no way, you make the way as you go. As you go, you make the way and stopping to look behind, you see the path that your feet will never travel again. Wayfarer, there is no way- Only foam trails to the sea.

  

  Antonio Machado
  • Way
  • Travel
  • Path

• I'm not interested in making money. It's just that with my talent, I'm cursed with it.

  

  Noel Gallagher Oasis
  • Money
  • Talent
  • Cursed

• Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Painful
  • Effects
  • Cushion