Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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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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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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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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Live your life and forget your age.
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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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Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.
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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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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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We tend to get what we expect.
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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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Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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Don’t take tomorrow to bed with you.
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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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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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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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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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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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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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.
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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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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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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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