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.”
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEYou can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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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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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
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Faith supplies staying power. Anyone can keep going when the going is good, but some extra ingredient is needed to keep you fighting when it seems that everything is against you.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
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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.
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it. Positive thinking is a form of thought which habitually looks for the best results from the worst conditions
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If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
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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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Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.
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Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.
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Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.
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The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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