Norman Vincent Peale - You Quotes

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If you think lack you tend to create a condition of lack. Shift your thought pattern to one of abundance and believe that God is now in the process of giving you the abundance you need.

Norman Vincent Peale
Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

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Everybody really knows what to do to have his life filled with joy. What is it? Quit hating people; start loving them. Quit being mad at people; start liking them. Quit doing wrong; quit being filled with fear. Quit thinking about yourself and go out and do something for other people. Everybody knows what you have to do to be happy. But the wisdom of the test lies in the final words: "If ye know these things, happy are ye if ye do them."

Norman Vincent Peale
Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Norman Vincent Peale
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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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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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.

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

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.

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