Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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A masterful retreat is itself a victory.
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Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.
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The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
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Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.
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Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
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Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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If I wanted to become a tramp, I would seek information and advice from the most successful tramp I could find. If I wanted to become a failure, I would seek advice from people who have never succeeded. If I wanted to succeed in all things, I would look around me for those who are succeeding, and do as they have done.
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Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
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Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
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You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.
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The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
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Know that you yourself are a miracle.
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I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.
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Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.
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Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.
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Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.