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.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEWhen you affirm big, believe big and pray big, big things happen.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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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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Begin where you are. Don’t wait for someone else to change things for you. Do it yourself.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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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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A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.
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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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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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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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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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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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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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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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A basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
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