Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.
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One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.
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You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.
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If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.
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When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
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Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.
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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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The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
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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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Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.
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Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.
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Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.
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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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Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.
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I firmly believe that when you die you will enter immediately into another life. They who have gone before us are alive in one form of life and we in another.
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No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive.
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Forget yourself! Think courage.
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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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Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.
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Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting.
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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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Believe in yourself, believe in your future.