Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

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You only lose energy when life becomes dull in your mind. Your mind gets bored and therefore tired of doing nothing.

Norman Vincent Peale
The word resentment means to re-feel...to feel again. Someone wrongs or wounds you; in resenting it, you re-feel the injury. And you re-hurt yourself. The Hebrew Talmud says that a person who bears a grudge is "Like one who, having cut one hand while handling a knife, avenges himself by stabbing the other hand."

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If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Norman Vincent Peale
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.

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To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.

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Constantly reemphasize to yourself the great fact that God built potential strength into your nature. By affirming it and practicing it, this basic strength will toughen up as muscles do.

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Even if you may be down to the worst, the best is potentially within you. You only have to find it, release it, and rise up with it. This requires courage and character, to be sure, but the main requirement is faith. Cultivate faith and you will have the necessary courage and character.

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The one person who most blocks you from a full, happy, and successful life is you.

Norman Vincent Peale
Always maintain hopefulness, especially when the going is hard.

Norman Vincent Peale
First thing every morning before you arise say out loud, I believe.

Norman Vincent Peale
Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

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Practice loving people. It is true that this requires effort and continued practice, for some are not very lovable, or so it seems - with emphasis on seems. Every person has lovable qualities when you really learn to know him.

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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.

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You must never conclude, even though everything goes wrong, that you cannot succeed. Even at the worst there is a way out, a hidden secret that can turn failure into success and despair into happiness. No situation is so dark that there is not a ray of light

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One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

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Thoughts and words form your mental image. And since we become what we picture be sure your thoughts and words express prosperity and blessing rather than poverty and defeat.

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Make a list of your friends and determine who is the most positive thinker among them and deliberately cultivate his society.

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And what marvelous things there are for which to be grateful in God's great Creation!

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Jesus made it clear that the most important thing in the world is our relationship to God and to others. When we achieve that, everything good will follow.

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I believe absolutely and certainly that, when you die, you will meet your loved ones and know them and be reunited with them, never to be seperated again.

Norman Vincent Peale
The mind quickly responds to teaching and discipline. You can make the mind give you back anything you want.

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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.

Norman Vincent Peale
Have absolutely no sense of guilt about being happy and successful if you operate honestly and with a sense of social responsibility.

Norman Vincent Peale
Never think negatively, for the negative thinker does a very dangerous thing. He pumps out negative thoughts into the world around him and thus activates the world negatively.

Norman Vincent Peale
Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

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