Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEHave absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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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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Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were – and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.
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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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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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Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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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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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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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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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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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 person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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