Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Get the heat and emotion out worry, and put cold, ruthless scrutiny onto the problem, and worry loses its power. When we are worried and filled with apprehension, we become panicky and are likely to see only gloom and failure. There isn't any situation so bad that it won't become a lot better when you think rationally - and spiritually - about it. God gives you the ability to think rationally about things by filling you with peace and faith.
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Just as we may learn from our successes (how to do it) so also can we learn from our mistakes (how not to do it). It just isn't in the cards that anybody should get by forever without making mistakes and perhaps sometimes making costly ones.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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To go fast, row slowly.
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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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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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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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Be an all-out, not a hold-out.
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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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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.
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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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Religious faith may very well be considered a science, for it responds invariably to certain formulae. Perform the technique of faith according to the laws which have been proved workable in human experience and you will always get a result of power.
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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.