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 PEALENever talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Believe you can, and you can. Belief is one of the most powerful of all problem dissolvers. When you believe that a difficulty can be overcome, you are more than halfway to victory over it already.
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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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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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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 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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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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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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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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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
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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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