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“Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“When you get up in the morning, you have two choices - either to be happy or to be unhappy. Just choose to be happy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Plant seeds of expectation in your mind; cultivate thoughts that anticipate achievement. Believe in yourself as being capable of overcoming all obstacles and weaknesses.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You'll find they haven't half the strength you think they have.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“If you want a quality, act as if you already have it. If you want to be courageous, act as if you were - and as you act and persevere in acting, so you tend to become.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Believe it is possible to solve your problem. Tremendous things happen to the believer. So believe the answer will come. It will.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“It's always to soon to quit!”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Enthusiasm spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“A vital part of the happiness formula is self-discipline. Whoever conquers himself knows deep happiness that fills the heart with joy.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Remember that "Help us grow this grass" is a far more effective sign than "Keep off the grass".”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Our happiness depends on the habit of mind we cultivate. So practice happy thinking every day. Cultivate the merry heart, develop the happiness habit, and life will become a continual feast." ~”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Deep within the individual is a vast reservoir of untapped power awaiting to be used. no person can have the use of all this potential until he learns to know his or her own self. the trouble with many people is that they got through life thinking and writing themselves off as ordinary commonplace persons. having no proper belief in themselves they live aimless and erratic lives largely because they never realize what their lives really can be or what they can become”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do things. When they believe in themselves they have the first secret of success.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure. The way you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, The Power of Positive Thinking

“The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Don't duck the most difficult problems. That just ensures that the hardest part will be left when you are most tired. Get the big one done - it's downhill from then on.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Live your life and forget your age.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“Every person, if he is to have mental health and live successfully, must move away from past failures and mistakes and go forward without letting them be a weight upon him. The art of forgetting is absolutely necessary.”
― Norman Vincent Peale, Thought Conditioners

“The world in which you live is not primarily determined by outward conditions and circumstances but by the thoughts that habitually occupy your mind.”
― Norman Vincent Peale

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”
― Diane Von Furstenberg

“Life is too short to waste any amount of time on wondering what other people think about you. In the first place, if they had better things going on in their lives, they wouldn't have the time to sit around and talk about you. What's important to me is not others' opinions of me, but what's important to me is my opinion of myself.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I'm not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“To the people who love you, you are beautiful already. This is not because they’re blind to your shortcomings but because they so clearly see your soul. Your shortcomings then dim by comparison. The people who care about you are willing to let you be imperfect and beautiful, too. (20)”
― Victoria Moran, Lit From Within: Tending Your Soul For Lifelong Beauty

“Don’t sacrifice yourself too much, because if you sacrifice too much there’s nothing else you can give and nobody will care for you.”
― Karl Lagerfeld

“The person in life that you will always be with the most, is yourself. Because even when you are with others, you are still with yourself, too! When you wake up in the morning, you are with yourself, laying in bed at night you are with yourself, walking down the street in the sunlight you are with yourself.What kind of person do you want to walk down the street with? What kind of person do you want to wake up in the morning with? What kind of person do you want to see at the end of the day before you fall asleep? Because that person is yourself, and it's your responsibility to be that person you want to be with. I know I want to spend my life with a person who knows how to let things go, who's not full of hate, who's able to smile and be carefree. So that's who I have to be.”
― C. JoyBell C.