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 PEALEBecome 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.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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The only people who don’t have problems are in a cemetery.
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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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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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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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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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Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
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Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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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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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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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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