Never react emotionally to criticism. Analyze yourself to determine whether it is justified. If it is, correct yourself. Otherwise, go on about your business.
NORMAN VINCENT PEALEA basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for.
More Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
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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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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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How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself. So always think positively.
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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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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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Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.
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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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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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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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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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The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.
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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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Four things for success: work and pray, think and believe.
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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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