Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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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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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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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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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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You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.
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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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Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
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All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
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Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.
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Believe in yourself, believe in your future.
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Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.
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If you feel afraid, you can make yourself courageous by acting courageous. If you are feeling unhappy, by deliberately acting happy you can induce happy feeling. If you are lacking in enthusiasm, by simply acting enthusiastic you can make yourself enthusiastic.
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God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.
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Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.
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The whole trend and quality of anyone's life is determined in the long run by the choices that are made.
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Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
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God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.
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A peaceful mind generates power.
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Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".
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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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There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.