Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEHave absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
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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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Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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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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The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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We tend to get what we expect.
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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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If you’ve been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, “By God’s grace, I’m done with it,” and take charge of yourself like never before.”
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I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.
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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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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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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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Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
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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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If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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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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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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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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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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Expect great things, and great things will come.
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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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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
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Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.
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