Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.
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You are greater than anything that can happen to you. In a big and terrifying crisis, people find within themselves a power and a strength and also a wisdom they had no idea they possessed.
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Begin where you are. Begin now.
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Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
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Stress the thought of plenty. Thoughts of plenty help create plenty.
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Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
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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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Getting along with the gang in one place is not any harder than getting along in another. It depends about 98 percent on your own behavior.
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
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Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.
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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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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.
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There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.
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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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One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.
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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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Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within 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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Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
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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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When learning stops, decay sets in.
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Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.
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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.