Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
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Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.
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Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them?
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
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Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.
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Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.
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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.
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Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become.
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What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.
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Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.
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Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is--pray and believe.
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You have to picturize, prayerize and actualize.
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Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.
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There exists a powerful energizing force in the spiritual life principle. All energy began with the Creator, who infused it not only in all natural processes, but also into that higher form of nature called human nature. The more closely, then, that a person identifies with the Creator, the more surely that person will experience within his or her own nature the process of re-creation which operates in all creation.
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Talk peaceful to be peaceful.
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
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Only the person who risks is truly free. A man's conquest of himself dwarfs the conquest of Mt. Everest.
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You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.
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The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
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Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.