Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.
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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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Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.
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If Jesus were alive today, he'd probably be at the Super Bowl.
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Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
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Every night empty your mind of unhappy thoughts as you empty your pockets and come alive.
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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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No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.
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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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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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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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When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.
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You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
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We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.
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Forget yourself! Think courage.
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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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The Bible tells us that the sins of the fathers are passed to succeeding generations. The virtues of the fathers can be passed along, too.
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When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.
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Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.
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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.
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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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I was brought up on the romance of American achievement. No matter where you start, if you work hard and if you think positively and if you dream dreams and if you have good character, you can lift the status of yourself, your family, your friends and everyone around you. This doesn't mean that your object in life is to become rich or famous. Just do the best you can with yourself. I think that Almighty God has put that into us and I'm going to do the best I can with myself. That's what I call the romance of achievement. Achievement means to be what, by the grace of God, you can be.
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Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.