Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

Norman Vincent Peale

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• The Web forces me to be disciplined and not to waste time – but before the Web was invented, there were plenty of opportunities to do that anyway.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • Time
  • Me
  • Opportunities

• I think God has blessed this country with enormous natural resources, and we should pursue all of the above. We should be developing oil, and gas, and coal, and nuclear, and wind, and solar, and ethanol, and biofuels. But, I don't believe that Washington should be picking winners and losers.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • God
  • Believe
  • Country

• I'll say that I don't think you can throw a stone and not come in contact with someone who knows someone or has problems with substance abuse.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Think
  • Problems
  • Abuse

• Catch then, O! catch the transient hour, Improve each moment as it flies; Life's a short Summer - man a flower, He dies - alas! how soon he dies!

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Summer
  • Flower

• I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red carpet, I really enjoy the time it takes to do it myself, to choose my clothes and do my own makeup and my own hair.

  

  Dita Von Teese
  • Time
  • Work
  • Together

• Sometimes one can be so closely involved with things that the larger context is lost to view.

  

  Brian Ferneyhough
  • Lost

• The Go-Go's were like my first babies.

  

  Jane Wiedlin

• I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

  

  David Ginola
  • Money
  • Game
  • Night

• Maybe we'll understand more about how the universe came to be, and what forces drove it in the early days and which forces drive it now.

  

  Edward Boyden
  • Universe
  • Understand
  • Forces

• Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Live
  • Stupid

• Our minds become magnetized with the dominating thoughts we hold in our minds and these magnets attract to us the forces, the people, the circumstances of life which harmonize with the nature of our dominating thoughts.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• It appears that countless women born between the years of 1965 and 1978 are in love with John Cusack. I cannot fathom how he isn't the number-one box office star in America, because every straight girl I know would see her soul to share a milkshake with that motherfucker.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Women
  • America
  • Soul

• We don't need to fight the forces of chaos so much as we need to restore and revitalize the forces of peace.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Peace
  • Chaos
  • Forces

• I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Bad

• One must separate from anything that forces one to repeat No again and again.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Forces
  • Separate
  • Repeat

• We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Hate
  • Forces
  • Power Of Love

• [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Evil
  • Forces
  • Resister

• The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-cooperation between the forces of darkness and those of light.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Light
  • Gospel
  • Forces

• Many of our forces collapsed when Daesh rolled into Iraq.

  

  Haider al-Abadi
  • Forces
  • Iraq
  • Daesh

• Is it a surprise that into the vessel, in which the mercury has no inclination and no repugnance, not even the slightest, to being there, it should enter and should rise in a column high enough to make equilibrium with the weight of the external air which forces it up?

  

  Evangelista Torricelli
  • Surprise
  • Forces
  • Equilibrium

• If a book's moving well, or I was interrupted over six million times through the day, I'll usually go back and write for another hour or two.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Times
  • Million
  • Interrupted

• Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Art
  • Common
  • Fame

• Ask me my three main priorities for government, and I tell you: education, education and education.

  

  Tony Blair
  • Government
  • Three
  • Priorities

• There is a basic law that like attracts like. Negative thinking definitely attracts negative results. Conversely, if a person habitually thinks optimistically and hopefully, his positive thinking sets in motion creative forces - and success instead of eluding him flows toward him.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Forces
  • Basic Law
  • Negative Results