Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
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Be so strong that nothing can disturb your peace of mind. Talk health, happiness, and prosperity to every person you meet. Make all your friends feel there is something special in them. Look at the sunny side of everything. Think only the best, be as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own. 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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When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.
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Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.
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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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Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
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I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.
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The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.
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Expecting the best means that you put your whole heart (i.e. the central essence of your personality) into what you want to accomplish. People are defeated in life not because of lack of ability, but for lack of wholeheartedness. They do not wholeheartedly expect to succeed. Their heart isn't in it, which is to say, they themselves are not fully given.
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First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.
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Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.
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Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
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Take a new look at your present "impossible." Consider positive ways to handle it.
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The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.
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The trouble with the average person is that he doesn't trust himself sufficiently to create and deliver ideas.
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I place this day, my life, my loved ones, my work in the Lord's hands. There is no harm in the Lord's hands, only good. Whatever happens, whatever results, if I am in the Lord's hands it is the Lord's will and it is good.
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Through persistence, self-knowledge, prayer, commitment, optimism, a resolute trust in God and the building of your own personal moral strength, you can enjoy the blessings of a deeper faith and face the difficulties of life with courage and confidence.
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To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God's help.
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People who are really efficient seem to do things easily, with a minimum of effort. In doing so they release maximum power.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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The individual who knows the score about life sees difficulties as opportunities.
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Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.