What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALETrouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended – to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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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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Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.
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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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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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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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We tend to get what we expect.
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Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
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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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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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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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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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Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
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