Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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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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Hold an image of the life you want, and that image will become fact.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
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Any action is better than no action at all.
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Nothing of great value in this life comes easily.
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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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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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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
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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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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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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Many people conceive of religion as something apart from everyday affairs of the world. They think of it in terms of ceremony or ritual or sermons and often it strikes them as being dull or not particularly interesting. Religion may be described in many ways. I like to think of it as a medicine, a healing medicine for the mind.
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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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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
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As long as enthusiasm holds out, so will new opportunities.
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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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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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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 masterful retreat is itself a victory.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have.