Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALELet a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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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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Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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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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Nothing is more confusing than people who give good advice but set a bad example.
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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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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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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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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate.
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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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Live your life and forget your age.
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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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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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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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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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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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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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Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
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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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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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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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I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.
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