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Never talk defeat. Use words like hope, belief, faith, victory.
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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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.
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Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
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Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person. Life will take on a new nest, deeper interest and greater meaning. You can think, talk and act yourself into dullness or into monotony or into unhappiness. By the same process you can build up inspiration, excitement and surging depth of joy.
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Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.
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Faith is the most powerful of all forces operating in humanity and when you have it in depth nothing can get you down.
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Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.
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I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.
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The big question isn't whether you have problems the all-important factor is your attitude toward problems. How you think of the problem is more important than the problem itself.
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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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Positive thinking is how you think about a problem. Enthusiasm is how you feel about a problem. The two together determine what you do about a problem.
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By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.
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Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.
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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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If you've been full of error and defeat, be done with it. Say, By God's grace, I'm done with it, and take charge of yourself like never before.
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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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Check what you did right and don't get lost in basking on your glory. It will make it easier to repeat whatever you did that created the success.
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Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.
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Go out of your way to talk optimistically about everything.
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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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