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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.
Norman Vincent Peale
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Norman Vincent Peale
Age: 95 †
Born: 1898
Born: May 31
Died: 1993
Died: December 24
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Dwelling on negative thoughts is like fertilizing weeds.
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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. But with self-confidence you can succeed. A sense of inferiority and inadequacy interferes with the attainment of your hopes, but self-confidence leads to self-realization and successful achievement.
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Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.
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The greatest secret for eliminating the infirmity complex, which is another term for deep and profound self-doubt, is to fill your mind to overflowing faith. Develop a tremendous faith in God and that will give you a humble yet soundly realistic faith in yourself.
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The word no denotes a shutting of the door. It means failure, defeat, delay. But spell in backwards and take new hope, for backwards it spells on.
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The positive thinker, on the contrary, constantly sends out positive thoughts, together with vital mental images of hope, optimism and creativity. He therefore activates the world around him positively and strongly tends to draw back to himself positive results. This, too, is a basic law of mind action.
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You can be greater than anything that can happen to you.
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When we start focusing on things we can do and don't think so much about the things we can't do, things really start to happen
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Always remember that problems contain values that have improvement potential.
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Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.
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One person can make a difference. You don't have to be a big shot. You don't have to have a lot of influence. You just have to have faith in your power to change things.
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Believe that all the resources you need are in your mind. That is a formula that really works.
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The greatest measure of a human being isn't how he handles himself when things are going well, but how he handles himself when things are going badly, when defeat comes.
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All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there.
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Americans are so tense and keyed up that it is impossible even to put them to sleep with a sermon.
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Whatever you are doing in the game of life, give it all you've got
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If you worry, you are a worrier because your mind is saturated with worry thoughts. To counteract these, mark every passage in your Bible that speaks of faith, hope, and courage.
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A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.
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