Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
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Hope is wanting something so eagerly that-in spite of all the evidence that you're not going to get it-you go right on wanting it.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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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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Believe in yourself, believe in your future.
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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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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.
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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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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 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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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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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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Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.
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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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Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
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There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.
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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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God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.
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A peaceful mind generates power.
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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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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 you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.