The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALETo be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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I expect the best and with God’s help will attain the best.
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.
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We tend to get what we expect.
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Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
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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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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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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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Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.
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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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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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Put your trust in God and just go calmly on your way.
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Become 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.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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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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