Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
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Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
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Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
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To experience the satisfaction and enjoyment of success in life, a definitive goal is essential. Many people fail at this vital point. The goal must be definite and specific, not in any sense vague or fuzzy. And to prove attainable, its image needs to be sharpened and resharpened continually, so that it stands out vividly in your thoughts. You must know, at all times, precisely and for certain what it is you want to accomplish and achieve. Strong and organized purposefulness toward a definite objective will focus your powers into a strong motivation in attainment of your goal.
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Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.
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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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Know that you yourself are a miracle.
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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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Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.
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The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
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If you have zest and enthusiasm you attract zest and enthusiasm. Life does give back in kind.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.
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Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.
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Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
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The word "no" denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells "on."
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Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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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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Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.
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The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
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To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.