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 PEALEOne of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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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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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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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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We tend to get what we expect.
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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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Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
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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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Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
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Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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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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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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Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
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It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
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The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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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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Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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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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Trouble 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.
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Expect great things, and great things will come.
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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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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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