People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEIf 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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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
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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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Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.
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Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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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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To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God’s help.
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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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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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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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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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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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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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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities — always see them, for they’re always there.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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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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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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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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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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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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