If you put off everything till you’re sure of it, you’ll never get anything done.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEIt 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.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Not every day can be an easy one, nor every day fully happy; but even a day of tough going and difficulty can be a good day.
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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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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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Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended – to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.
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Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you’ve got.
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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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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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Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.
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Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don’t have any problems, you don’t get any seeds.
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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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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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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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