It's always too early to quit.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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About Norman Vincent Peale

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Norman Vincent Peale (May 31, 1898 – December 24, 1993) was an American Protestant clergyman, and an author best known for popularizing the concept of positive thinking, especially through his best-selling book The Power of Positive Thinking (1952). He served as the pastor of Marble Collegiate Church, New York, from...

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Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a touch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness.

—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

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

Forget the mistakes of the past and press on to the greater achievements of the future. Give everyone a smile. Spend so much time improving yourself that you have no time left to criticize others. Be too big for worry and too noble for anger.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

—Edwin Markham

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What is defeat? Nothing but education; nothing but the first step to something better.

—Wendell Phillips

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.

—Theodore Roosevelt

Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

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