The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEPeople 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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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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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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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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Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
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People fail to understand that unless they are themselves willing to give, they will never receive.
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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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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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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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If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
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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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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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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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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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We tend to get what we expect.
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