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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 Peale

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
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
Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
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Cut Early Faith Fear Life Strong Thinking
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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Practice Relationship Satisfaction Time Value
The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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Death Grave People
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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God Growth Help Purpose Thankful Trouble Yourself
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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Believe Difficult Powerful Problem Victory 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
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
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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Eyes Heart Impossible Sing Yourself
Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
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Inspirational Obstacle Stand Strength Thinking Yourself
Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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Excuse Fear Quit Reason
You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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Greatness Inspirational Motivational Yourself
Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Diminish Give Up Joy Try Yourself
A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.
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Discipline Formula Happiness Heart Joy
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

Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.

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