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God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.

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.

The sure way to success is so simple, but it requires character, guts, persistence, the mastery of lower jobs to be ready for the better ones.

Never tell yourself ... I can't go on. If you do you're licked, and by your own thinking too.

He was a cynic and like most cynics, totally selfish and self-indulgent.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Make a mental list of happy thoughts and pass them through your mind several times every day.

We tend to get what we expect.

Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.

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Drop the idea that you are Atlas carrying the world on your shoulders. The world would go on even without you. Don't take yourself so seriously.

Once he began to act as if he could not fail, he did not fail.

Understanding can overcome any situation, however mysterious or insurmountable it may appear to be.

The more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.

All successful people have a goal. No one can get anywhere unless he knows where he wants to go and what he wants to be or do.

Trouble is here. It is for a purpose. Use it for the purpose for which it was intended - to help you grow. Thank God for your troubles.

Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

If you want to get somewhere you have to know where you want to go and how to get there. Then never, never, never give up.

Remember: what you think you will become - good or bad, weak or strong, defeated or victorious.

YOU DO NOT need to be a victim of worry. Reduced to its simplest form, what is worry? It is simply an unhealthy and destructive mental habit.

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Expect great things, and great things will come.

By acting as you wish yourself to be, in due course you will become as you act.

Throw your heart over the fence and the rest will follow

Every problem has in it the seeds of its own solution. If you don't have any problems, you don't get any seeds.

Know what you want and believe that you can have it.

You don't have to be tired and bored. Get interested in something. Get absolutely enthralled in something. Throw yourself into it with abandon.

You have a choice everyday ... You can choose every morning whether you will be depressed and miserable, or whether you will be happy.

Never use the word "impossible" seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.

Imagination is the true magic carpet.

Fear is never a reason for quitting; it is only an excuse.

Think excitement, talk excitement, act out excitement, and you are bound to become an excited person.

Go at life with abandon; give it all you've got. And life will give all it has to you.

Optimism, when applied to your life, develops strength and peace within you.

Put God to work for you and maximize your potential in our divinely ordered capitalist system.

Let us move into the New Year with a great sense of the thrill of living.

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

You will soon break the bow if you keep it always stretched.

Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. No one was there.

If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed ... nothing shall be impossible unto you.

And if the mind thinks with a believing attitude one can do amazing things.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself.

Promise yourself success at the beginning of each day, and you'll be surprised how often things will turn out that way.

Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

Do you think Christianity could have lasted for nearly two thousand years on its promises unless the Lord could deliver on them?

Be interesting, be enthusiastic ... and don't talk too much.

If you visualize a failure, you tend to create the conditions that produce failure. Visualize-believe-and thank God in advance.

In every difficult situation is potential value. Believe this, then begin looking for it.

Change your thoughts and change your world

Whenever a negative thought concerning your personal power comes to mind, deliberately voice a positive thought to cancel it out.

Almighty God freely bestows the good things in this world in proportion to a person's mental readiness to receive.

Positive thinking looks upon weak places in people as challenging opportunities.

I believe in the power of Jesus Christ to resolve any difficulty, to remove any weakness, to heal any disease.

You'll always get an idea if you think and don't panic.

Yesterday ended last night. Every day is a new beginning. Learn the skill of forgetting. And move on.

Do Your Best, Let God Do The Rest

If there is no fun in it, something is wrong with all you are doing.

Let nothing trouble you let nothing worry you everything passes away expect God God alone is sufficient

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

Repetition of the same thought or physical action develops into a habit which, repeated frequently enough, becomes an automatic reflex.

A book is a present that you can open again and again

Cushion the painful effects of hard blows by keeping the enthusiasm going strong, even if doing so requires struggle.

The secret of the law of abundance is this: In order to receive and appreciate the good things of life, you must first give.

Practice hope. As hopefulness becomes a habit, you can achieve a permanently happy spirit.

Grasp a difficulty by the "blade" and it cuts; grasp it by the "handle" and you can use it constructively.

Often we have no choice about doing things, but we can always choose how to do them.

Go forward confidently, energetically attacking problems, expecting favorable outcomes.

Good intentions are no substitute for obedience.

The controlled person is a powerful person. He who always keeps his head will get ahead.

If thou canst believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.

It is a fact that you project what you are.

Your enthusiasm will be infectious, stimulating and attractive to others. They will love you for it They will go for you and with you

Believe that problems do have answers, that they can be overcome, and that you can solve them.

You must feed your mind even as you feed your body, and to make your mind healthy, you must feed it nourishing, wholesome thoughts.

Believe you are defeated, believe it long enough, and it is likely to become a fact.

We may live victoriously, not because we have any power within ourselves, but because when we give ourselves to God, He gives himself to us.

Believe and create is a basic fact of successful living.

Americans used to roar like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security.

The most vital, creative, and positive thoughts are those stated in the Bible. Its words are alive and form powerful thought processes.

When obstacles or difficulties arise, the positive thinker takes them as creative opportunities.

Think joy, talk joy, practice joy, share joy, saturate your mind with joy, and you will have the time of your life today and every day all your life.

The right kind of fear will keep us from doing wrong.
The rough is only mental - it is rough only because your think it is.

To go fast, row slowly.

Talk peaceful to be peaceful.

Humans will never be hampered as smooth bag. They just dragged and dropped upon his head and empty heart

Believe that you are bigger than your difficulties, for you are, indeed.

One of the simplest things about all facts of life is that to get where you want to go, you must keep on keeping on.

What seems impossible one minute becomes, through faith, possible the next.

If Jesus were alive today, he'd probably be at the Super Bowl.

Cherish your family connections. They are one of God's greatest ways of demonstrating his love and fellowship.

As his self-defenses seemed to indicate. When the younger employee

The secret of life is not in what happens to you. It is in what you do with it that happens to you.

Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.

Only the believers pick up the prizes in life.

The only figure in history who endures is Jesus.

We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

The more you venture to live greatly, the more you will find within you what it takes to get on top of the things and stay there.

Decide that you will not try to do everything at once. That is why time is spread out.

It is always too soon to quit.

Optimism is a philosophy based on the belief that basically life is good, that, in the long run, the good in life overbalances the evil.