Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

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Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Norman Vincent Peale
Change your thoughts and you can change the world.

Norman Vincent Peale
Go to inspirational meetings, get to know men and women who are doing inspiring things. Above all, run as hard as you can from the cynics and gripers and the negativists. They are not going anywhere. You are.

Norman Vincent Peale
Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

Norman Vincent Peale
Keep your mental and spiritual contact points cleaned so that God can operate through your mind.

Norman Vincent Peale
You do not need to let anything get you down, but if you are down you certainly need not let anything keep you down.

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Dare to be what you ought to be, dare to be what you dream to be, dare to be the finest you can be. The more you dare, the surer you will be of gaining just what you dare!

Norman Vincent Peale
Jesus is not a memory. He is an actual, contemporary, reachable Person. He is the living Christ, who has the power to enter into people's lives and change and lift them up.

Norman Vincent Peale
Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy doses to keep it going

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When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

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Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.

Norman Vincent Peale
Don't tense up no matter what, for you only close off creative power when you do.

Norman Vincent Peale
The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.

Norman Vincent Peale
If you think in positive terms, you will achieve positive results.

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In adversity keep motivated, for often the best comes from difficulty.

Norman Vincent Peale
By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

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Never allow sick attitudes to poison your thinking, nor let ill will make you ill. Avoid making your mind sore by that painful rehurting called resentment.

Norman Vincent Peale
Do not exclusively say your prayers in the form of asking God for something. The prayer of thanksgiving is much more powerful.

Norman Vincent Peale
Expect the best, not the worst, and you will attain your heart's desire.

Norman Vincent Peale
The great secret of getting what you want from life is to know whay you want and believe you can have it. Always do something for others, then ask God to help you get at it.

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You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.

Norman Vincent Peale
Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people

Norman Vincent Peale
You can do amazing things if you have strong faith, deep desire, and just hang in there.

Norman Vincent Peale
Help other people to cope with their problems, and your own will be easier to cope with.

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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."

Norman Vincent Peale
There is nothing at all wrong with having money unless money has you.

Norman Vincent Peale
Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, "With God's help I now forgive."

Norman Vincent Peale
Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

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God never made anyone else exactly like you, and he never will again. Thank him for yourself and then for all the rest of his glorious handiwork.

Norman Vincent Peale
The negative principle negates. The positive principle creates. The negative principle doubts. The positive principle believes. The negative principle accepts defeat. The positive principle goes for victory.

Norman Vincent Peale