Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
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If you expect the best, you will be the best. Learn to use one of the most powerful laws in this world; change your mental habits to belief instead of disbelief. Learn to expect, not to doubt. In so doing, you bring everything into the realm of possibility.
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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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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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Before you go to sleep, run over your personal world mentally and thank God for everyone and everything.
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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind.
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Let go and let God. Let Him take over your life and run it. He knows how.
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Change yourself and your work will seem different.
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Christmas is the season of joy, of holiday greetings exchanged, of gift-giving,and of families united.
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Do not let circumstances defeat you. You can if you think you can.
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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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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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The Bible - the wisest document ever known in human existence, which defies the ravages of time and change because it contains the truth that cannot be changed or invalidated.
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Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.
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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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Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
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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.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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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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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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A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.
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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.