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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.

Norman Vincent Peale

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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Courage Healing Important Medication Mindset Stomach Thinking
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
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
One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Basic Existence Human Law Yourself
Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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Choice Ourselves Way
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
Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.”
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Count Failure Frequent God Help Myself Word
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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Faith Fight Need Power Stay Yourself
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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Believe Dreams Expectation Greatness Hope Live
Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.
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Beginning Change Independent Wait Yourself
Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
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Guilty Happiness Honesty Responsibility Social Success
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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Determination Enthusiasm Feeling Positive Problem Thinking Togetherness Yourself
Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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Belief Defeat Faith Hope Talk Victory
Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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Excuse Fear Quit Reason
Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.
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Beginning Day End Forget Learning Move On Night Skill
Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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Exercise Mindset Problem Strong Tough Yourself
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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Better God Right Willing Yourself
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
We tend to get what we expect.
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Expectation One Liner
The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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Big Energy Lose Spiritual Yourself
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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Freedom Happiness Hate Heart Sunshine Surprise Thinking Way Yourself
Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
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Believe Big Difficult Yourself
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
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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Build Deal Difficult Imagination Obstacle Yourself
Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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Believe Prayer Success Thinking Work
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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Darkness Possible See Yourself
Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful.
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Attitude Development Happiness Mindset Peace State Success Talk Yourself

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