Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Begin where you are. Don't wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.
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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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Faith is the one power against which fear cannot stand. Day by day, as you fill your mind with faith, there will ultimately be no more room left for fear. This is the one great fact that no one should forget. Master faith and you will automatically master fear.
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I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.
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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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The best way to forget your own problems is to help someone else solve theirs. The best way to prepare for life is to begin to live. The best way to respond to wrong is to do what's right. The better we know ourselves the less we'll criticize others. The bigger your problems, the bigger your prayer should be.
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The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.
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A clean mind always delivers power.
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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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Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.
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God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.
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Begin where you are. Begin now.
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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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Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.
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Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
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Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.
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Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it They will go for you and with you.
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The man who lives for himself is a failure; the man who lives for others has achieved true success.
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Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that's all, and don't give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won't be you, it will be the obstacle.
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You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.
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Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going.
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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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It is a fact that you project what you are.
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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.