Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEHave absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you’ll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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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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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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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.
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Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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