Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.
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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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In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.
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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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No one can ever overcome anything until his thoughts are creative and positive.
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Always remember, there is more strength in you than you ever realized or even imagined. Certainly nothing can keep you down if you are determined to get on top of things and stay there.
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Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
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Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.
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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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You'll always get an idea if you think and don't panic.
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Believe in yourself, believe in your future.
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Cut the "im" out of impossible, leading that dynamic word standing out free and clear-possible.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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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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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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Expect the best and get it.
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Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
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By success, of course, I do not mean that you may become rich, famous, or powerful for that does not, of necessity, represent achievement. Indeed, not infrequently, such individuals represent pathetic failure as persons.
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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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Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
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Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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You became a worrier by practicing worry. You can become free of worry by practicing the opposite and stronger habit of faith. With all the strength and perseverance you can command, start practicing faith.
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Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.
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Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.