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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About Norman Vincent Peale

Portrait of Norman Vincent Peale

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

It's always too early to quit.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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Change your thoughts and you change your world.

—Norman Vincent Peale

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I couldn't forgive him. My anger was the only thing keeping me from hating myself.

—Alyssa Rose Ivy in Derailed

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My uncle Sammy was an angry man. He had printed on his tombstone: What are you looking at?

—Margaret Smith

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Unlike women in other countries, our breaking silence is unlikely to have us jailed, "disappeared," or run off the road at night. Our speaking out will irritate some people, get us called bitchy or hypersensitive, and disrupt some dinner parties. And then our speaking out will permit other women to speak, until laws are changed and lives are saved and the world is altered forever.

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When you find yourself about to say something that crosses a line, something that could cause irreparable harm, sometimes the best you can do is just not say that thing.

—Tammara Webber in Where You Are

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The phrase "action speaks louder than words," is most easily proven by a swift kick to the genitals.

—Devin J. Monroe

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