Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.
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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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Plan your work - work your plan. Lack of system produces that 'I'm swamped' feeling.
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A workable and effective way to meet and overcome difficulties is to take on someone else's problems. It is a strange fact but you can often handle two difficulties-your own and somebody else's-better than you can handle your own alone. That truth is based on a subtle law of self-giving or outgoingness whereby you develop a self-strengthening in the process.
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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 list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.
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A very real barrier to faith is this feeling of self-sufficiency, this unrealistic idea that one can accomplish everything by his or her own self. Some people have the conviction they must do it all alone. They have no faith in others. . . they are convinced that there is no one able to do the job as well as themselves. They refuse to admit that they may need the help of friends, doctor, minister, or even God.
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You'll always get an idea if you think and don't panic.
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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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Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.
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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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No matter how many worries and anxieties harass you, remember always that they are removable. Enthusiasm with its immense mental and spiritual power can cancel out all fear.
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Expect great things, and great things will come.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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Believe in yourself, believe in your future.
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Anybody can do just about anything with himself that he really wants to and makes up his mind to do. We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
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Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.
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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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Expect the best and get it.
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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 excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.
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We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
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Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
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I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.