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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.

Norman Vincent Peale

The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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Death Grave People
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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Charge Defeat Errors God Grace Yourself
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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Condition Habit Negative Positive Recognition Thinking Worst
Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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Choice Ourselves Way
The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
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Greatness Person Risk
Have 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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Guilty Happiness Honesty Responsibility Social Success
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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Problem Seed Solution Yourself
Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
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Beginning Body Learning Mindset Peace Precious Spirit
How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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Important Positive Problem Thinking
If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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Different Inspirational Motivational Result Yourself
The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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Break Inspirational Life Yourself
Stand up to an obstacle. Just stand up to it, that’s all, and don’t give way under it, and it will finally break. You will break it. Something has to break, and it won’t be you, it will be the obstacle.
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Break Give Up Obstacle Stand Yourself
When you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
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Believe Big Manifestation Prayer Yourself
I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.
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Believe Difficult God Healing Myself Power Weakness
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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Build Deal Difficult Imagination Obstacle Yourself
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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Darkness Possible See Yourself
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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Better God Right Willing Yourself
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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Action Build Confidence Different Greatness Result Success
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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Believe Dreams Expectation Greatness Hope Live
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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Better Care Construction Help Success Touch Yourself
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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Day Difficult Easy Goodness Happiness
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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Art Forget Health Live Mental Necessary Person Success
People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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Failure People Surrender Understand Willing
Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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Excuse Fear Quit Reason
Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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Cultivation Habit Happiness Ourselves
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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Abundance Astonish Generosity Goodness Love Prayer Return Yourself
The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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Draw Person Positive Result Thinking

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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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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