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Every individual forms his own estimate of himself and that basic estimate goes far toward determining what he becomes.
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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A wish is an attitude of mind to which wings have been attached. You wish and you dream, and your whole nature focuses to bring your wishes and dreams to pass.
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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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God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.
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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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We are all capable of greater things than we realize.
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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!
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The capacity to be either happy or unhappy is determined by the manner in which you react to whatever happens.
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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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Thinking about forgiving is not enough. You must come to a moment when you say, With God's help I now forgive.
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Take a new look at your present impossible. Consider positive ways to handle it.
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Nothing during the year is so impressively convincing as the vision Christmas brings of what this world would be if love became the daily practice of human beings.
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Life is a blend of laughter and tears, a combination of rain and sunshine.
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There is a real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.
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Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.
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Expect great things, and great things will come.
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Let a series of happy thoughts run through your mind. They will show on your face.
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Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. Change your thoughts and you change your world.
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To go fast, row slowly.
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Our problem is to become acquainted with our own selves, letting our personalities loose upon the world for the sheer adventure of their full development and in the positive hope that they may in their own way lift the level of humanity.
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I truly believe that the individual who learns to practice thanksgiving activates within himself and around himself continuous victories and blessings from God.
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