Norman Vincent Peale Quotes About Attitude
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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." ~
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Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
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Any fact facing us, however difficult, even seemingly hopeless, is not so important as our attitude toward that fact. How you think about a fact may defeat you before you ever do anything about it. You may permit a fact to overwhelm you mentally before you deal with it actually. On the other hand, a confident and optimistic thought pattern can overcome or modify the fact altogether.
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him. You lift the relationship thereby to a higher level. The best in the other person begins to flow out toward you as your best flows toward him. In the meeting of the best in each a higher unity of understanding is established.
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Every day practice emptying your mind of all unhealthy attitudes.
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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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Become a possibilitarian. No matter how dark things seem to be or actually are, raise your sights and see possibilities -- always see them, for they're always there.
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Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.
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Eliminate the word "impossible" from your conversation, drop it from your thoughts, erase it from your attitudes. Stop rationalizing it. Cease excusing it. Substitute for it that bright and shining word...POSSIBLE."
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And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.
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Remember, there is no situation so completely hopeless that something constructive cannot be done about it. When faced with a minus, ask yourself what you can do to make it a plus. A person practicing this attitude will extract undreamed-of outcomes from the most unpromising situations. Realize that there are no hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.
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You are overcome by the fact because you think you are.
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No matter how dark things become, someone is always with you - and that someone is God. He helps by giving you peace and a positive mental attitude.
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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.
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The how thinker gets problems solved effectively because he wastes no time with futile ifs but goes right to work on the creative how.
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When you wholeheartedly adopt a 'with all your heart' attitude and go all out with the positive principle, you can do incredible things.
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If you want things to be different, perhaps the answer is to become different yourself.
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When you pray for anyone you tend to modify your personal attitude toward him.
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Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.
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The mind, properly controlled, can do just about everything. You can think your way through adversity, you can think your way through problems. It is a superpowerful instrument which so few use to maximum. And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.
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Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow.
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. . . a basic law: the more you practice the art of thankfulness, the more you have to be thankful for. This, of course, is a fact. Thankfulness does tend to reproduce in kind. The attitude of gratitude revitalizes the entire mental process by activating all other attitudes, thus stimulating creativity.
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Any fact facing us is not as important as our attitude toward it, for that determines our success or failure.
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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.
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Develop serenity and quiet attitudes through your conversation. Depending upon the words we use and the tone in which we use them, we can talk ourselves into being nervous, high-strung, and upset. By our speech, we can also achieve quiet reactions. Talk peaceful to be peaceful.
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Be humble, be big in mind and soul, be kindly; you will like yourself that way and so will other people
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The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.
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Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.
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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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Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.
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