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 PEALEAction 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.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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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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We tend to get what we expect.
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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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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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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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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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A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
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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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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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Live your life and forget your age.
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Throw back the shoulders, let the heart sing, let the eyes flash, let the mind be lifted up, look upward and say to yourself … nothing is impossible!
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