Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
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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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Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.
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When we have peace in our hearts, we also have love in our hearts and good will toward all men.
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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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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Forget yourself! Think courage.
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You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear.
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When you are afraid, do the thing you are afraid of and soon you will lose your fear of it.
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We live in the midst of the greatest scientific civilization in the history of the world. But the greatest wisdom walking our streets is not in any laboratory scientist, but the wisdom of Jesus Christ.
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I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.
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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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Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.
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Religion does not blithely promise some sort of no-trouble, no-problem, no-poverty world; but rather a spirit, a power, an enthusiasm that endows everyone with the ability to overcome any and all of it.
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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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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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Practice excited thinking until you become excited and exciting.
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A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.
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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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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.