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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEFear 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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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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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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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
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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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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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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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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.
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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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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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Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
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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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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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