Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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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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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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When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.
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Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.
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Any action is better than no action at all.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.
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You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.
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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 what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith.
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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.
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Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them.
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Positive Thinkers get positive results because they appreciate the inestimable value of a day, this day, not the next day, but this day, and every day. Today offers at least sixteen waking hours that may be crammed FULL of opportunity, joy, excitement, and achievement.
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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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As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
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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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You have a choice everyday... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.
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Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!
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A masterful retreat is itself a victory.