Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.
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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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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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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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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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Picturize, prayerize, actualize.
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When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.
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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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Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.
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Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.
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The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
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We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
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Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions.
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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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There are some things you can't learn from others. You have to pass through the fire.
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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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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Every problem contains the seed of it's own solution.
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Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them.