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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALELive your life and forget your age.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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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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Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
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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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Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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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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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
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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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If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
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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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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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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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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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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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We tend to get what we expect.
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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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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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People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.
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Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.
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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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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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Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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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.
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