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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Believe in yourself, believe in your future.
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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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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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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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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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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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Imagination is the true magic carpet.
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When learning stops, decay sets in.
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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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Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you.
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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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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.
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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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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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There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.
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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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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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Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".
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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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When you keep asserting that things are going to work out well, that you can do the job, that you will not have a flat tire, that you will get there on time, by talking up good results you invoke the law of positive effects and good results occur. Things do turn out well.
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Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.