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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEPeople fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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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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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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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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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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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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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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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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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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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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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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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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Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
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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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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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