Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Peale
Norman Vincent Pealewas an American minister and authorand a progenitor of "positive thinking". His ideas were not accepted by mental health experts...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionSelf-Help Author
Date of Birth31 May 1898
CityBowersville, OH
CountryUnited States of America
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To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.
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Don't take tomorrow to bed with you.
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Medication is of course important but do not conclude that a pill dissolving in your stomach is necessarily more powerful than a healing thought in your mind.
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Keep thinking, keep interested, keep praying, keep dreaming. Be mentally sensitive at all times so that the magic word that motivates you may one day speak to your deep inner self.
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It takes struggle, a goal and enthusiasm to make a champion.
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Happiness consists not in having, but of being, not of possessing, but of enjoying. It is the warm glow of a heart at peace with itself.
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The first step is to fill your life with positive faith that will help you through anything. The second step is to start where you are.
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There are two primary forces in this world, fear and faith. Fear can move you to destructiveness or sickness or failure. Only in rare instances will it motivate you to accomplishment. But faith is a greater force. Faith can drive itself into your consciousness and set you free from fear forever.
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Think health, eat sparingly, exercise regularly, walk a lot, and think positively about yourself.
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Who decides whether you shall be happy or unhappy? You do!
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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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One of the basic laws of human existence is: find yourself, know yourself, be yourself.
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The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.
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The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.