Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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Silence fertilizes the deep place where personality grows. A life with a peaceful center can weather all storms.
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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.
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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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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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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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One of the greatest of all principles is that men can do what they think they can do.
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Begin where you are. Begin now.
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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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Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going.
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The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.
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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.
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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 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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Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
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Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by fear.
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The man who lives for himself is a failure. Even if he gains much wealth, position or fortune, he is still a failure. The man who lives for others has achieved true success. A rich man who consecrates his wealth and his position to the good of humanity is a success.
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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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Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.
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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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If there is no fun in it, something is wrong with all you are doing.
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There are no circumstances in your life where God will not stand will not stand with you and help you, no matter what the trouble may be.
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A war fitness conference some time ago declared that the highest form of recreation is to go to church. The word recreation should be written re-creation. More real rest can be gained from an hour and a quarter of worship under these circumstances than by eighteen holes of golf.
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God loves you. God doesn't want anyone to be hungry and oppressed. He just puts his big arms around everybody and hugs them up against himself.