Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
Quotes to Explore
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My manners, abominable at times, can be sweet.
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I have an abundance of enthusiasm; however, it would be foolish to think I can predict a future that doesn't exist.
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There are times where I am trying to make the big play before I even catch the football.
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I've cheated the Grim Reaper more times than anyone I know.
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I took acting five times as seriously as anyone else. I just couldn't show it.
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Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
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If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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I should have died in ambushes a hundred times.
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A team is a team is a team. Shakespeare said that many times.
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The real secret of success is enthusiasm.
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Authors change publishers because it's like being married for a long time and suddenly you want to go out and have a wild affair! No, not seriously, sometimes the deal is more interesting with a new publisher, and other times they have more enthusiasm for your books.
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There is something enormously compelling about Fran Cutler. She is a thrilling bundle of energy and enthusiasm.
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All truth is not to be told at all times.
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Yet enthusiasm is no excuse for the historian going off balance. He should remind the reader that outcomes were neither inevitable nor foreordained, but subject to a thousand changes and chances.
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I have been to Kashmir many times, especially with my family, in the '70s.
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I shop at thrift shops probably five times a week.
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I auditioned for 'Game of Thrones' seven times! Loads of times.
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One of the problems with the Internet is that a lot of times it is inaccurate.
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My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.
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If I had been told to get out of the street as a teenager, there would have been a distinct possibility that I might have smarted off. But, I wouldn't have expected to be shot.
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I think this is a moment of a lot of possibilities, and openings. Occupy and the 99% movement are really going to break through, and we are going to create a new economy, an economy that we need that works for everyone. Where everyone works, everyone counts and everyone contributes.
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No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.
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Life is not all fun and easy going. Far from it; there are many rough times. But, sadly, we too often let the hard times dull our enthusiasm. And that is dangerous, if not fatal, to our lives.
