Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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One way to become enthusiastic is to look for the plus sign. To make progress in any difficult situation, you have to start with what's right about it and build on that.
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Fill the day with enthusiasm. Give the day all you've got and it will give you all it's got, which will be plenty.
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Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.
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Worry is an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.
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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
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Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.
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The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand.
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We tend to get what we expect.
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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all that you do. It tones up your physical vitality and gives warmth to all your personal relationships. When you associate with enthusiasm long enough it grabs you and takes over within you.
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Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.
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Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.
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Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.
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There is no sound basis upon which it may be assumed that all poor men are godly and all rich men are evil, no more than it could be assumed that all rich men are good and all poor men are bad.
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Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.
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It's always too early to quit.
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When fate throws a dagger at you, there are ways to catch it. If you catch it by the blade, you can harm yourself. But if you catch it by the handle, you can use it to help you fight through the obstacles ahead.
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A true apology is more than just aknowledgment of a mistake. It is recognition that something you have said or done has damaged a relationship and that you care enough about the relationship to want it repaired and restored.
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The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
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Dare to be what your best self knows you ought to be; dare to be a bigger human being than you have ever been.
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Don't let any obstacle stop you. Always remember that you have spiritual and mental qualities within you that can overcome even the seemingly impossible.
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Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.
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Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
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The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.
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Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.