Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
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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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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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Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
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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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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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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.
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One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.
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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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Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".
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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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Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.
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A peaceful mind generates power.
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Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.
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Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.
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It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small matters over a period of years. But the catch is that you can never know when a seemingly small decision may prove to be, from the vantage of later years, the big decision of your life.