Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do so, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces.
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We reach the goal not by the stairs, but by the lift..... God pledges his promised righteousness to those who will stop trying to save themselves. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.
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Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.
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America has become so tense and nervous it has been years since I have seen anyone sleep in church - and that is a sad situation.
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Enthusiasm releases the drive to carry you over obstacles and adds significance to all you do.
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The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.
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By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
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Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
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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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Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
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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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Happiness will never come if it's a goal in itself; happiness is a by-product of a commitment of worthy causes.
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Miracles are of all sizes. And if you start believing in little miracles, you can work up to the bigger ones.
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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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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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I found eternal peace in a Shinto shrine. I've been to Shinto shrines and God is everywhere. Christ is one of the ways! God is everywhere.
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Be an all-out, not a hold-out.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
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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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Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.
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Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.