Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Confidently receive God's abundant blessings. Think abundance, prosperity, and the best of everything.
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Make a true estimate of your own ability, then raise it ten per cent.
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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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And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!
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To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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Eliminate the word "impossible" from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing it. Substitute for it that bright and shining word...POSSIBLE."
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The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.
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... not mere achievement, but rather the more difficult feat of handling your life efficiently. It means to be a success as a person; controlled, organized, not part of the world's problems, but part of its cure. ... of being creative individuals.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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Families, like individuals, are unique.
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If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, "By God's grace, I'm done with it," and take charge of yourself like never before."
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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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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Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.
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Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
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As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
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A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
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And now we get down to two magic words that tell us how to accomplish just about anything we want to accomplish, two powerful words that can change any situation, two dynamic words that all too few people use. And what are these two amazing words? Do it!
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Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.
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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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Know what you want and believe that you can have it.
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If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.
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Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.