People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEJoy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.
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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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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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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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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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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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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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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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The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.
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To cure worry, spend fifteen minutes daily filling your mind full of God. Worry is just a very bad mental habit. You can change any habit with God’s help.
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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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The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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