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
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEStand 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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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The way to happiness: Keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Scatter sunshine, forget self, think of others. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.
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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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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
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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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Whatever your problem, no matter how difficult, you can release spiritual power sufficient to solve your problem. The secret is–pray and believe.
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Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfied by fear.
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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We tend to get what we expect.
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
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When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
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Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
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Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.
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Expect great things, and great things will come.
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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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Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.
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If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.
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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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The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.
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Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.”
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