Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Talk peaceful to be peaceful.
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Don't bother. The glass is half-empty.
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When the student is ready, the messenger appears.
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I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.
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You have to picturize, prayerize and actualize.
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The longer I live the more I am convinced that neither age nor circumstance needs to deprive us of energy and vitality. We are at last awakening to the close relationship between religion and health. . . .our physical condition is determined very largely by our emotional condition, and our emotional life is profoundly regulated by our thought life.
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The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory.
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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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Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.
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Nobody ever mastered any skill except through intensive persistent and intelligent practice.
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The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.
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When I dig another out of trouble, the hole from which I lift him is the place where I bury my own.
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Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.
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If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
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Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
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The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you. They are therefore wise who make themselves an asset. We can be our own worst enemies or best friends. We can be a source of trouble or a cure for trouble. So if you feel empty, as many do, start by getting free from yourself as a first stop to vibrant living.
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Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.
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When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
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Never forget that all the enthusiasm you need is in your mind. Let it out - let it live - let it motivate you.
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Can you go a whole day with joy in your heart? Joy and vitality are an inseparable combination. Joy is not concerned with having fun; it is an inner spiritual quality that overcomes despair, pain and defeat. You cannot turn on joy like an electric light, but you can prepare yourself to receive it.
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Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.
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Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
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Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
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What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.