Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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.
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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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If you are not getting as much from life as you want to, then examine the state of your enthusiasm.
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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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People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
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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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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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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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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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Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.
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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
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Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.
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Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.
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If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."
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We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.
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The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.
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Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.
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There is only one group of people who do not have problems, and they are all dead. Problems are a sign of life, so the more problems you have, the more alive you are.
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Go to inspirational meetings, get to know men and women who are doing inspiring things. Above all, run as hard as you can from the cynics and gripers and the negativists. They are not going anywhere. You are.