Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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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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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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Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.
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You can make yourself enthusiastic by affirming enthusiasm and by thinking, talking, acting enthusiastic.
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Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.
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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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You have to picturize, prayerize and actualize.
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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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Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.
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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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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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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.
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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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I sometimes think we ought to bring a bill before Congress changing our national symbol from the eagle to the buffalo, because we are more like the buffalo than the eagle. The eagle is a powerful bird. It flies alone. It rises up into the sky with authority. It is master of all it surveys. The eagle is an individualist and was selected from among the rest of the birds to be our symbol. But the buffalo was never alone. It always ran in a herd with other buffaloes. And, friends, I call your attention that the buffaloes are gone from the open range, but the eagles are still soaring.
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Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
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What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.
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The really happy people are those who have broken the chains of procrastination, those who find satisfaction in doing the job at hand. They're full of eagerness, zest, productivity. You can be, too.
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Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.
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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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Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.
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Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.