Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfied by fear.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEThe more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
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Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven’t half the strength you think they have.
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I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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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 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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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
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Frequently remind yourself that God is with you, that He will never fail you, that you can count upon him. Say these words, “God is with me, helping me.”
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Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.
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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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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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Never let any mistake cause you to stop believing in yourself. Learn from it and go on.
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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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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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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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What is hope? Hope is wishing for a thing to come true; faith is believing that it will come true.
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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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Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.
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Have great hopes and dare to go all out for them. Have great dreams and dare to live them. Have tremendous expectations and believe in them.
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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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A positive thinker does not refuse to recognize the negative; he refuses to dwell on it.
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You have a choice everyday, You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.
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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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